Despite his father and Angelina Jolie took the decision to end their three-year marriage almost 20 years ago, Billy Bob Thornton‘s son Henry James Thornton says that he and Angelina Jolie Stay close to this day and even still exchange gifts.
Henry revealed to Entertainment tonight that he and his former stepmother are still very much in touch. “To this day, she still sends me Christmas presents every year and stuff like that,” he said. “I do not talk to her on the phone every day, but we talk now and then.” Harry is Thornton’s son from his previous marriage to his fourth wife, Playboy model Pietra Dawn Cherniak, which lasted from 1993 to 1997. He and Jolie were married from 2000 to 2003, after they met and fell in love with the set for the 1999 film Pushing Tin. Jolie was also recently separated from her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, which she ran off to Las Vegas after meeting him on the set of the 1995 film Hackers.
Before their breakup, Henry added that Jolie always found fun, new ways to hold on to him and his brother William Thornton entertained. “She took us camping every week, and she rented like a camper once, and we went on an entire camping trip,” he said, calling the actress “so cool.” He added: “She was just so funny to us when we were younger. She was a lot of fun.”
After the split, Jolie began dating Brad Pitt in 2004, after they met on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The couple, who share six children, finally married in 2014 only to divorce two years later. Billy Bob is currently married to his sixth wife, Connie Angland, whom he married in 2014, and has four children, including Harry, from his previous relationships.
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