Billy Bob Thornton is clearing up the famous rumor that he and ex Angelina Jolie wore vials of each other’s blood on a necklace.

In an interview with Rolling Stone published on Monday, November 17, Thornton, 70, said the blood vial necklaces “never existed.”

“We each had a little locket, literally with a drop of blood in them. That’s a romantic little idea, and that’s all that was,” the Landman actor clarified.

“But by the time it’s over, we’re vampires, we live in a dungeon, we drink each other’s blood, and this kind of stuff,” Thornton added, referring to the media fascination with the former couple, who were wed from May 2000 to May 2003.

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