Billy Bob Thornton on Ex-Wife Angelina Jolie
Billy Bob Thornton tells Anderson he's still good friends with ex-wife Angelina Jolie, saying, "See, in the press, ladies and gentleman, if you get a divorce, everyone assumes that it was nasty, and it's just not always."
Thornton adds, "It's not that I haven't had a couple of nasty ones, you know, but this was not one of them. Angie and I are great friends, we always have been, and we talk on a pretty regular basis.
The actor, who has a new memoir, "The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts," asked Jolie to write the foreword. Billy Bob wanted someone who knew him for a long time to contribute to his book.
"The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts," was first dictated and then transcribed. Thornton, 56, talks about growing up in Arkansas and eating squirrel, and how he struggles with ADD and dyslexia.
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I am always a bit surprised at people being unable to be friends with an ex. I have been married for 39 years but I had two short marriages first. One lasted 3 years and one less than 6 months. I am still friends with my first husband, mostly through FB and emails, and a couple occasions when we have been at the same event or funeral. He was my attorney when I divorced my second husband. I am also friends with my second husband and the Executor named in his will even though we divorced in 1971 and his will was written a dozen years ago. He is very reclusive and I email him every week to make sure he is doing okay. All of us moved on but at one time at least thought we were in love. We all live in or around the Seattle area although the first one lived on the east coast for some years before returning to the Northwest. Both remarried after our marriage failed. The first one remarried twice and remains married to his third wife. The second one remarried the wife after me, number three. twice but they are long divorced and a long-time relationship with another woman never made it to marriage. My current husband is fine with the contact and knew my first husband at the University of Washington 50 years ago. I do think it is easier that I did not have children with either number one or number two and my three children came in my third marriage. I will admit I was shocked with a first divorce and really traumatized with a second one although I was the one moving toward the divorces. Third time was definitely the charm!