Billy Bob Thornton Opens Up About What Really Ended His Marriage to Angelina Jolie

Billy Bob Thornton has opened up about his marriage to Angelina Jolie and why it ended. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the 70-year-old actor reflected on his past marriages and shared insights into his current life with his sixth wife, Connie Angland.

Thornton has been with Angland for over 20 years, and the couple tied the knot in 2014. They share a daughter, Bella, who is now 21. He also has three other children from previous relationships.

Talking about his history of marriages, Thornton admitted that some of them happened impulsively. “The other times I got married were just like, you had a little too much to drink one night and somebody said, ‘We should get married.’ You go, ‘Yeah, okay.’ I always tell people, at least I was trying,” he said.

When discussing his time with Jolie, his fifth wife, Thornton spoke warmly about their relationship. They were married from 2000 to 2003 and, according to him, “had a great time together.”

He described the marriage as a positive chapter in his life and noted that they ended things on good terms. “That was one of the greatest times of my life. She and I are still very, very close friends. And that was the one that ended up being a really civilized breakup. We simply split up because our lifestyles were so different,” he explained.

Thornton also shared that the intense media attention during their marriage made life difficult. “When we met, I was the more famous one. And then when we got together, for some reason, the people and the media are very interested in celebrity couples… So it was weird. We couldn’t go anywhere. I mean, we did, and then of course we had times when we would say things that became sound bites or whatever,” he said.

For context, Jolie had been married to Jonny Lee Miller before Thornton and later married Brad Pitt, with whom she shares six children.

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