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Billy Bob Thornton is poking fun at his long list of failed marriages.
On this morning’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, the actor gushed over his current wife, Connie Angland, whom he wed in 2014. They met on the set of his 2003 dark comedy Bad Santa shortly after he finalized his divorce from Angelina Jolie.
“We met at a time when I needed somebody to meet me because I was going through kind of a lost weekend,” Thornton said, to which host Drew Barrymore replied, “I spent like two decades in a lost weekend, I totally understand. Maybe three.”
According to Thornton, Angland’s sister was a makeup artist for the movie.
“She said, ‘My sister’s gonna visit and I got a feeling that you’re really gonna like her.’ And sure enough, I did,” Thornton recalled. “And we were together within probably a couple of months, maybe. She kind of drug me out of the gutter which was awesome.”
The actor then joked, “We’ve been together longer than if you totaled up all the other five,” while Barrymore excitedly asked, “Are you five times married? I’m three!”
Thornton was previously married to Melissa Lee Gatlin from 1978 to 1980, Toni Lawrence from 1986 to 1988, Cynda Williams from 1990 to 1992, Pietra Dawn Cherniak from 1993 to 1997, and Jolie from 2000 to 2003.
Photo: CBS“You want to hear something that really freaked me out? Because it’s six for me,” Thornton clarified. “One time, I don’t know how I got there, but you know when you go on the internet to look something up and it leads you to a bunch of other stuff and you don’t really want to look at it but you do anyway?”
“So, I’m looking at it one day and they had the people with the most marriages in Hollywood,” he continued. “And I was the only person who was alive on it. I mean, it had like Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor and all these people — people who started in the ‘30s.”
On the bright side, those aren’t bad names to be listed next to!
The Drew Barrymore Show airs on weekdays on CBS. You can check the website for local airtimes.
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