Billy Bob Thornton is clearing up the well-known rumor that he and ex Angelina Jolie wore vials of one another’s blood on a necklace.
In an interview with Rolling Stone revealed on Monday, November 17, Thornton, 70, mentioned the blood vial necklaces “by no means existed.”
“We every had a little bit locket, actually with a drop of blood in them. That’s a romantic little thought, and that’s all that was,” the Landman actor clarified.
“However by the point it’s over, we’re vampires, we dwell in a dungeon, we drink one another’s blood, and this sort of stuff,” Thornton added, referring to the media fascination with the previous couple, who have been wed from Could 2000 to Could 2003.
Wanting again on their relationship, Thornton mentioned that he and Jolie, 50, stay on nice phrases.
“Angelina and I had a good time collectively,” he mentioned. “That was one of many best instances of my life. She and I are nonetheless very, very shut mates. And that was the one which ended up being a extremely civilized breakup. We merely break up up as a result of our existence have been so completely different.”
Thornton and Jolie have been common tabloid fixtures throughout their marriage, which the actor described as a “fairly bizarre” time.
“Once we met, I used to be the extra well-known one. After which once we bought collectively, for some purpose, the individuals and the media are very interested by movie star {couples}, that appears to be a very fashionable factor,” he defined. “So, it was bizarre. We couldn’t go wherever. I imply, we did, after which after all we had instances once we would say issues that grew to become sound bites or no matter.”
Matt Winkelmeyer/WireImage; Monica Schipper/Getty Pictures Greater than twenty years after Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton divorced, they each stepped out on the 82nd annual Golden Globes. Jolie, 49, is nominated for Finest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Movement Image – Drama due to her function in Maria and surprised on the pink […]
Jolie has beforehand opened up about her divorce from Thornton, telling Vogue in 2004, “It took me abruptly, too, as a result of in a single day, we completely modified.”
“As a result of we’re actors, we go away for months at a time and also you develop and alter individually,” she mentioned on the time. “I believe at some point we had simply nothing in frequent. And it’s scary however … I believe it may occur once you become involved and also you don’t know your self but. It’s taken me some time to develop up, and I nonetheless suppose I’m not even near it but.”
Thornton has been married six instances. He wed his present spouse, Connie Angland, in October 2014 and the couple share a daughter, Bella, 21.
“Connie and I’ve been collectively 23 years and married for 12. Our daughter is 20. So, I discovered the appropriate spot to be,” he advised Rolling Stone.
Billy Bob Thornton has been married six instances, however he as soon as acknowledged his intention to cease at 5 marriage ceremony ceremonies. Throughout a 2008 interview with Maxim, the Oscar winner mentioned that he would “most likely not” tie the knot once more, noting that he thought it could be finest for his then-girlfriend Connie Angland. “I advised Connie […]
The actor just lately gushed about his daughter, noting that he and Angland are “helicopter mother and father, form of, I suppose.”
Bella is learning at California Polytechnic State College in San Luis Obispo, California, the place her mother and father bought a house.
“So we bought a home up there. She’s 12 minutes from the campus,” Thornton mentioned on the Thursday, November 13, episode of the At the moment present.
“That’s like helicopter parenting to the following degree,” joked host Savannah Guthrie, to which the actor responded, “It’s, yeah.”
In addition to Bella, Thornton is dad to daughter Amanda, 46, whom he shares along with his first spouse, Melissa Lee Gatlin, and sons William, 32, and Harry, 31, with ex-wife Pietra Daybreak Cherniak. Jolie, in the meantime, shares six youngsters with ex-husband Brad Pitt.
