Angelina Jolie’s love life has been tabloid fodder for literal decades.

Jolie and Thornton do.

Jolie echoes this sentiment, saying, “It was never a vial anyway …

Angelina Jolie

It was like a flower press.

It was like from a slight cut on your finger and you press your fingerprint in.

It was kind of a sweet gesture.

Angelina Jolie and her six children

I thought it was kind of romantic!

In 2016, however, the couple parted ways.

Now, Angelina Jolie has spoken out on her life as a single woman, and it is illuminating.

In response, she said, “I probably have a very long list [of nos].

I’ve been alone for a long time now” (viaThe Daily Mail).

She even credits them for taking good care ofheras she navigates being a single mom.

She said of her children, “I have six very capable children.

They take such really good care of me, and we’re such a team.

So I am very, very lucky …

I’m always the one who worries but I adore them.

They’re cool people.”