Billy Bob Thorntonis getting candid about his highly-publicized marriage toAngelina Jolie.
“I look at that time as a great time,” theGoliathstar, 62, said during the latestHFPA in Conversation podcast episodeof Jolie, 43, whom he was married to from 2000 to 2003.
“Angie is still a friend of mine and she’s a great person and she’s done so much,” he added. “She makes movies that are important to her whether they succeed or fail, she still does what she believes in and I’ll always respect her for that.”
The actor also spoke about the media coverage of the relationship. “A lot of the things they said about us at the time were exaggerated,” he explained, adding, “It wasn’t as crazy as people wrote about it.”
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Specifically, he addressed the coverage surrounding the necklaces he and Jolie wore at the time, which contained vials of each other’s blood.
As for why they split, Thornton said, “We just had different lifestyles. Hers is a global lifestyle and mine is an agoraphobic lifestyle,” he said with a laugh. “So that’s really, that’s the only reason we’re probably not still together, maybe. There was a different path in life we wanted to take.”
In 2016, during Jolie’shigh-profile splitfromBrad Pitt, Thornton also spoke about his marriage to Jolie.
“I never felt good enough for her,” he shared, adding that despite his many years in Hollywood, he’s “real uncomfortable around rich and important people.”
And he wasn’t looking to change his ways.
“Ilikehow I am,” he said.
Thornton isnow marriedConnie Angland, his long-time partner and mother to his 13-year-old daughter Bella.
source: people.com
