Prior to her marriage to musician Ben Harper in 2000, actressLaura Dernwas engaged to Billy Bob Thornton.

“It’s like a sudden death.

For one has there been any closure or clarity.”

Laura Dern And Billy Bob Thornton Attend, January 20 1999

But it made me happy and somebody else happy.

I’m sorry it caused pain."

While Jolie and Dern weren’t in the same circles as actors, they did have prior history.

Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie, pose for photographers, June 5, 2000

After only two years of a highly publicized marriage (remember the blood vial necklaces?

), Jolie and Thornton parted ways in 2002.

“We just had different lifestyles,” Thornton explained to the HFPA in Conversation podcast (viaE!

“Hers is a global lifestyle, and mine is an agoraphobic lifestyle.