Overview
- Published this week, the Rolling Stone interview is being widely re-reported as Thornton’s correction to a decades-old tabloid narrative.
- Thornton says the medallion idea originated when Jolie brought a kit to make them while the pair worked on separate films.
- He says media coverage distorted the small gesture into a lurid ‘vampire’ tale that bore little resemblance to their lives.
- Looking back on their 2000–2003 marriage, he calls it one of the best periods of his life and describes an amicable split due to different lifestyles.
- Coverage notes no new statement from Jolie, with the update grounded in Thornton’s retrospective account.