Why did Angelina Jolie wear her husband's blood in a pendant?

BarcelonaLong before Angelina Jolie's tragic marriage to Brad Pitt, the actress had another famous husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton. Their short marriage—lasting from 2001 to 2003—caused a sensation due to its eccentricities, such as supposedly wearing lockets containing vials of each other's blood. Now the 70-year-old actor has sought to clarify some things about this accessory that generated a great deal of media attention at the time.

"We both had a locket with a drop of each other's blood. It was a small romantic gesture, that's all. But when it came out, it made it seem like we were vampires. Like we were living in a dungeon, drinking each other's blood and that kind of thing," Rolling Stone.

This is not the first time that the protagonist of Monster's Ball He commented on this detail of his relationship with Angelina Jolie. In 2014, at an event at Loyola Marymount University, he clarified that the story about the pendant had been exaggerated and explained that Jolie had proposed this "romantic gesture." "A vial of blood is a very simple thing. Angie came home one day with a kit that I had bought. You know those lockets that are transparent and you put a picture of your grandmother or something in them and you always wear them around your neck? Well, that was it,” Thornton said. Regarding the reasons why they had decided to do that, he said: “She [Angelina Jolie] thought it would be interesting and romantic if we took a small razor blade and made a small cut on our fingers, smeared a little blood on those cuts, and some baby hair from your son or daughter. It was exactly that. But it ended up looking like we were wearing bottles of blood around our necks.”

Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton, who are twenty years apart in age, met while filming the movie Out of control In 1999. In 2000, they married in Las Vegas after the actor abruptly broke up with Laura Dern, to whom he was engaged. In 2002, it was reported that the couple had adopted a child, Maddox, in Cambodia, but it was later clarified that Jolie had adopted him alone.

The couple divorced in 2003, but they remain on good terms, unlike what happened with Brad Pitt. "Angelina and I had a great time together. It was one of the best times of my life. We're still very good friends. It was a very civilized breakup; we simply separated because our lifestyles were very different," explains the star of the series. Landman.