Overview
- Thornton says he and Angelina Jolie wore small lockets holding a single drop of blood, not vials.
- He recounts that Jolie bought clear lockets and they lightly cut a finger to place a drop inside as a private keepsake during stretches apart.
- Thornton describes years of media exaggeration of the gesture, quipping that coverage turned them into “vampires” living in a dungeon.
- The former couple married in 2000 and divorced in 2003, and he says they remain very close after what he calls a civilized split driven by different lifestyles.
- He first offered this clarification publicly in 2014 and is reiterating it now as he reflects on that period in a new Rolling Stone interview.