Billy Bob Thornton insists that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie is still “a very good friend” — but he’s putting a new spin on the bizarre couple’s breakup before her marriage to Brad Pitt! Get the inside story on the Hollyweird marriage, and click here for more news on Angelina’s bad split with Brad…
Angelina Jolie — How Baby Battles Ended Her Marriage To Billy Bob
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Billy Bob Thornton insists that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie is still "a very good friend" — but he's putting a new spin on the bizarre couple's breakup before her doomed marriage to Brad Pitt!
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Billy Bob couldn't dodge questions about Angelina's marital problems while promoting his Amazon series "Goliath," and told reporters the pair broke up because “we just had different lifestyles. Her's is a global lifestyle, and mine is an agoraphobic lifestyle.” But the “different path in life” that he took was more about Angelina's adopting babies!
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Insiders told The National ENQUIRER in 20001 that Angelina and Billy were ready to break up over the starlet's determination to adopt a brood of kids. Having worked as a United Nations rep, said an insider, Angelina then passed a series of drug tests to film "Tomb Raider" in Cambodia, where she "was shocked to discover so many neglected, abandoned and abused children!"
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Angelina was inspired to fund an orphanage in the region of Phnom Penh. She was later given a child to hold on a follow-up trip. "Then and there," said the insider, "Angelina decided to take the steps necessary to adopt him and take him home to live with her and Billy Bob." Billy Bob, however, wasn't as excited about the idea.
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The actor already had three children from previous marriages, and insiders said that he told Angelina it would be "a mistake" for them to adopt even one child — adding they could have children later. "If Billy Bob digs his heels in over this," warned the insider at the time, "this marriage could be history."
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And while they'd announce in March 2002 that they were adopting seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, Angelina and Billy Bob began divorce proceedings just three months later — after a visit to the troubled couple's hotel room by The ENQUIRER. "Overnight," Angelina later recalled, "we totally changed."
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The newly-single mom had adopted daughter Zahara by the time that she met Jennifer Aniston's husband on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in 2004. Angelina would announce that she was pregnant with Brad's child in Jan. 2006, with the couple going on to adopt more kids.
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Billy Bob had a later child with longtime love Connie Angland, whom he finally married in 2014 — the same year that Angelina finally married Brad. Today, insists Thornton, Angelina's constant traveling was still the cause of their split, saying : "That’s the only reason we’re probably not still together, maybe.”
Photo credit: Mega
Billy Bob Thornton insists that his ex-wife Angelina Jolie is still "a very good friend" — but he's putting a new spin on the bizarre couple's breakup before her doomed marriage to Brad Pitt!
Photo credit: Mega
Billy Bob couldn't dodge questions about Angelina's marital problems while promoting his Amazon series "Goliath," and told reporters the pair broke up because “we just had different lifestyles. Her's is a global lifestyle, and mine is an agoraphobic lifestyle.” But the “different path in life” that he took was more about Angelina's adopting babies!
Photo credit: Mega
Insiders told The National ENQUIRER in 20001 that Angelina and Billy were ready to break up over the starlet's determination to adopt a brood of kids. Having worked as a United Nations rep, said an insider, Angelina then passed a series of drug tests to film "Tomb Raider" in Cambodia, where she "was shocked to discover so many neglected, abandoned and abused children!"
Photo credit: Mega
Angelina was inspired to fund an orphanage in the region of Phnom Penh. She was later given a child to hold on a follow-up trip. "Then and there," said the insider, "Angelina decided to take the steps necessary to adopt him and take him home to live with her and Billy Bob." Billy Bob, however, wasn't as excited about the idea.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The actor already had three children from previous marriages, and insiders said that he told Angelina it would be "a mistake" for them to adopt even one child — adding they could have children later. "If Billy Bob digs his heels in over this," warned the insider at the time, "this marriage could be history."
Photo credit: Mega
And while they'd announce in March 2002 that they were adopting seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, Angelina and Billy Bob began divorce proceedings just three months later — after a visit to the troubled couple's hotel room by The ENQUIRER. "Overnight," Angelina later recalled, "we totally changed."
Photo credit: Getty Images
The newly-single mom had adopted daughter Zahara by the time that she met Jennifer Aniston's husband on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in 2004. Angelina would announce that she was pregnant with Brad's child in Jan. 2006, with the couple going on to adopt more kids.
Billy Bob had a later child with longtime love Connie Angland, whom he finally married in 2014 — the same year that Angelina finally married Brad. Today, insists Thornton, Angelina's constant traveling was still the cause of their split, saying : "That’s the only reason we’re probably not still together, maybe.”
Photo credit: Mega
