Billy Bob Thornton reveals reality about notorious blood vials with Angelina Jolie

Billy Bob Thornton has revealed the reality concerning the blood vial necklaces which he and ex-wife Angelina Jolie allegedly wore.

Lengthy earlier than there was ‘Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’ there was ‘Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton’. The couple first met in 2000 and tied the knot a yr later, earlier than getting matching tattoos and ultimately going their separate methods in 2003.

Regardless of Jolie and Thornton’s relationship being comparatively quick, the couple stay notorious amongst anybody sufficiently old to recollect the early noughties on account of reviews of them sporting necklaces containing vials of one another’s blood.

Which can not have been true in any case.

When most of us consider Thornton and Jolie’s relationship, the very first thing that involves thoughts is seeing headlines how the couple confirmed their devotion by sporting blood necklaces.

A chunk of trivia which Thornton has since set the document straight on.

Talking in a brand new interview with Rolling Stone, Thornton defined that the necklaces have been truly lockets, which contained not more than a drop of blood and that the entire thing was blown out of proportion.

“We every had a bit of locket, actually with a drop of blood in them,” the 70-year-old defined, including that the gesture was wildly taken out of context within the media.

“That is a romantic little concept, and that is all that was,” he continued.

“However by the point it is over, we’re vampires. We stay in a dungeon, we drink one another’s blood, and this sort of stuff.”

Regardless of public notion of the connection, Thornton added that he and Jolie, 50, separated on good phrases and referred to their three years collectively as ‘one of many biggest instances of my life’.

“Angelina and I had a good time collectively,” he mentioned. “She and I are nonetheless very, very shut buddies. And that was the one which ended up being a very civilised breakup. We merely cut up up as a result of our existence have been so completely different.”

This is not the primary time Thornton has shut down hypothesis concerning the notorious blood vials, beforehand explaining how he and Jolie got here up with the concept in a 2014 interview.

“Angie got here dwelling in the future with a package she purchased,” he mentioned throughout an interview with Loyola Marymount College’s College of Movie & Tv, via E! Information.

“You realize these lockets you purchase which might be clear and you set an image of your grannie in it or one thing like that and put on it round your neck? That is what it was.

“She thought it might be fascinating and romantic if we took a bit of razor blade and sliced our fingers, smeared a bit of blood on these lockets and also you put on it round your neck.”

So there you could have it of us, not a vial of blood however merely a smear on a DIY locket.