Thornton: How I 'Blew' Marriage to Jolie

Billy Bob Thornton takes the blame for the failure of his marriage to Angelina Jolie in a new Nightline interview. “I blew it because I didn’t think I was good enough for her. She has one way she wanted to live her life and I had another way to live mine and I was just too insecure,” he says. “I did feel like the Phantom of the Opera hiding in the catacombs. People have actually said that I didn’t deserve to be with her.”

He adds that when they first got together, he “was more famous than she was,” but she soon became “this big thing,” which was hard. But the two remained “good friends” after their three-year marriage ended in 2003, he says, and Jolie wrote the foreword to Thornton’s new book, The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts. “We had a great time together,” he says. “We had a great marriage and I chickened out because I didn’t feel good enough. That’s all that happened. It was no big deal, we never hated each other.” (More Billy Bob Thornton stories.)