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 printed on Monday, November 17, Thornton, 70, mentioned the blood vial necklaces “by no means existed.”
“We every had a 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 stay 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 had 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 associates. And that was the one which ended up being a extremely civilized breakup. We merely cut up up as a result of our life had been so completely different.”
Thornton and Jolie had been common tabloid fixtures throughout their marriage, which the actor described as a “fairly bizarre” time.
“After we met, I used to be the extra well-known one. After which after we acquired collectively, for some purpose, the folks and the media are very concerned about celeb {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 in fact we had instances after we would say issues that grew to become sound bites or no matter.”
Jolie has beforehand opened up about her divorce from Thornton, telling Vogue in 2004, “It took me without warning, 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 feel someday we had simply nothing in frequent. And it’s scary however … I feel it may possibly occur if you become involved and also you don’t know your self but. It’s taken me some time to develop up, and I nonetheless assume 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 best spot to be,” he instructed Rolling Stone.
The actor not too long ago gushed about his daughter, noting that he and Angland are “helicopter dad and mom, type of, I suppose.”
Bella is learning at California Polytechnic State College in San Luis Obispo, California, the place her dad and mom bought a house.
“So we acquired a home up there. She’s 12 minutes from the campus,” Thornton mentioned on the Thursday, November 13, episode of the Right this moment present.
“That’s like helicopter parenting to the subsequent stage,” 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 together 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 kids with ex-husband Brad Pitt.

