After several months of breathless tabloid coverage about how Brad is totally “thisclose” to leaving Angelina and run back to the waiting arms of Jennifer Aniston, it’s a rare pleasure to see a little bit of equally fake “Angelina is getting back at Brad” coverage. This comes from The National Enquirer (via Showbiz Spy), and they’ve finally got out of their uncool Bermuda Triangle rut and decided to make it a quadrangle for fun. This week’s added participant is none other than Angelina’s second ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton.

According to sources, Angelina was totally pissed about the Aniston drama, so she decided to get even, “giving Brad a dose of his own medicine by getting hot and heavy with Billy Bob.” Unfortunately, the sources stop short of saying that Angelina and Billy Bob have actually met up for a revival of their infamous Velcro-wall-blood-vial-sex-in-the-limo ho-down. The most Angelina and Billy have done thus far is some kind of phone sex that included Angelina naked in a bathtub, a glass of wine, a phone and Brad walking in on her. The best part is when the source talks about how Angelina is sick of Brad’s “mind games”. Ha!

Angelina Jolie is furious that partner Brad Pitt is back in contact with his wife ex-wife Jennifer Aniston — so she’s been hooking up with her ex-husband, Billy Bob Thornton!

Amid claims Pitt and Aniston liaised at a New York hotel, the Changeling actress has apparently been having “steamy sessions” with Thornton, who she divorced in 2003 after three years of marriage.

“Angelina was beside herself with rage over Brad’s latest date with Jen, which left her humiliated and feeling like a laughing stock,” an insider told American tabloid the National Enquirer. “She has been giving Brad a dose of his own medicine by getting hot and heavy with Billy Bob.”

“Brad recently walked in on Angie, naked in the bathtub, drinking wine and in deep intimate conversation with Billy Bob on the phone!”

“That was the last straw for Brad. And worse still, when he asked Angie to hang up because he needed to talk to her about something important regarding one of their kids, she completely ignored him and kept on talking to Billy Bob for another half hour. Brad was ticked!”

Jolie and Thornton apparently speak on a regular basis. And, when they do, they “talk for hour after hour about the old days, turning each other on with the sizzling reminders of the great sex life they had together, how much she misses him — and how bored she is with Brad’s mind games.”

“It drives Brad nuts that Angie is still talking to Billy Bob,” the source adds. “By meeting up again with Jennifer behind her back, Brad has started a full-scale war with Angelina.”

“She’s determined to get even with Brad for his insensitive behavior — and sees her relationship with Billy Bob as the perfect revenge.”

[From The National Enquirer via Showbiz Spy]

When I think back to Billy Bob and Angelina’s crazy marriage, I’m always struck by the idea that Billy Bob really messed with Angelina’s already fragile mind. It’s to her credit that she cleaned herself up so well during and after the marriage. If Angelina is backsliding in her relationship with Brad, I could see how reconnecting with Billy might be a convenient way for her to self-destruct. Both Angelina and Billy have said that they still talk, and it even seems like Billy might be a little hung-up on her. Still, I hope Angelina has come to the realization at long last that Billy is kind of a dickhead, and she’s better off without him in her life.

Whatever happened to her first husband, Jonny Lee Miller, though? There were so few rumors about them after they split up, but I’ve always thought Angelina was still nailing that to the wall for years after their divorce. As she should - Jonny was the best, I adore him still. I even thought there was probably some overlap between her old-school hotel-hookups with Jonny and the beginning of her relationship with Brad. That’s who the tabloids should fabricate some scandal with.

Note by Celebitchy: Angelina is shown at an event for World Refugee Day on Thursday. Starpulse has video of her speech and she gets welled up talking about the refugees she’s met. Credit: WENN.com