More than two decades after Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton divorced, they both stepped out at the 82nd annual Golden Globes.
Jolie, 49, is nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama thanks to her role in Maria and stunned on the red carpet in a glitzy silver Alexander McQueen gown with matching jewelry and stilettos. She was joined by 19-year-old daughter Zahara, who was a vision in white.
“Z is here. She’s hiding over there ‘cause you’re live,” Jolie quipped to Variety, noting her daughter approved of the red carpet look. (Jolie and ex-husband Brad Pitt, who recently finalized their divorce, share Zahara and five other children.)
Thornton, 69, meanwhile, skipped the red carpet before he was pictured in the Beverly Hilton ballroom alongside wife Connie Angland. While Thornton opted for a classic black tuxedo, Angland, 60, donned a white gown with a black ribbon cascading off each shoulder. (Thornton and Angland have been married since 2014.)
The 2025 Golden Globe Awards red carpet has been rolled out and stars have arrived in style. Supermodel Ashley Graham was one of the first to turn up on the scene, and she stunned in a sweeping black silk moiré gown by Bach Mai with a plunging neckline cut down to there. Meanwhile, actress Zuri […]
Before Jolie married Pitt, she was married to Thornton between May 2000 and May 2003. (It was Jolie’s second marriage; she was married to Johnny Lee Miller from 1996 to 2000.)
Jolie and Thornton went public with their whirlwind romance in June 2000 shortly before they tied the knot. Their relationship famously made headlines after Jolie got “Billy Bob” tattooed on her arm and they started wearing vials of each other’s blood on chains around their necks.
“The necklaces were a very simple thing,” Thornton explained during a June 2018 appearance on the “HFPA In Conversation” podcast. “‘Hey, let’s poke our finger with a pin and smear a little on there, and when we’re away from each other, we’ll wear the necklace.’ That was that easy, but by the time it came out in the press, it sounded like we were wearing a bucket of blood around our necks.”
Jolie, for her part, eventually removed the ink amid the divorce.
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards Ron Davis/Getty Images
Since then, Thornton has been candid about what went wrong in their relationship.
“I never felt good enough for [Angelina],” Thornton previously told GQ in 2016. “I’m real uncomfortable around rich and important people. I like how I am.”
Three years later, Thornton exclusively told Us Weekly that he and Jolie remain “good friends.”
“We’ve been friends for years and years and years,” he told Us in September 2019. “So we keep up with each other. She’s not in town a lot, so we don’t see each other much, but we talk.”
Jolie also remains on good terms with Thornton’s family and his children. Thornton shares sons Harry and William with ex-wife Pietra Dawn Cherniak, daughter Amanda with ex-wife Melissa Lee Gatlin and daughter Bella with Angland.
Angelina Jolie turned the 2025 Golden Globes into a mother-daughter date night. The actress, 49, was accompanied by her eldest daughter, Zahara, 19, at the Sunday, January 5, ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. “Z is here,” Jolie told Variety on the red carpet, noting that Zahara gave her metallic gown her stamp […]
“To this day, she still sends me Christmas gifts every year and stuff like that,” Harry, now 30, told Entertainment Tonight in January 2022. “I don’t talk to her on the phone every day but every now and then we talk. She was so cool!”
He added at the time, “She took [my siblings and I] camping every week and she rented, like, an RV one time, and we went on a full camping trip. She was just so fun for us back when we were, like, younger. Like, she was a lot of fun.”
