Former Wife of Billy Bob Is Back on the Scene Producing and Writing Unique Reality TV Show Pietra Dawn Thornton, the young and beautiful ex-spouse of Oscar-winning writer/actor
Billy Bob Thornton and the mother of his two sons, is on the rise again. Many of you in the media remember the headlines in 1997/98 and Billy Bob’s Oscar for Slingblade and the butterfly-from-cocoon appearance of the unknown exotic beauty at his side that night: Pietra. For six years, up to that point, their marriage was struggling. The entertainment world was then shocked when within a few days after the worldwide Oscar Broadcast, Pietra filed for divorce. The tabloids and main line media had a field day. The divorce and the messy proceedings with charges and countercharges were frontpage stories including the cover of USA Today and the AP. Interviews with Pietra and news of their divorce on national TV included Inside Edition, Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy, E-Entertainment Television, Newsweek and Time Magazine and many of the 6 o’clock news hours coast to coast.
During her divorce proceedings that year Pietra organized and supported charities advocating help for victims of domestic violence. Not one to be weak on any campaign she took on,
Pietra posed nude for
Playboy Magazine in January of 1998. It raised a lot of eyebrows but she told USA Today that, “t
he layout was a sacrifice of myself ... I wanted to reach people to bring awareness of domestic violence.” She certainly did.
Recently Pietra befriended Donya Fiorentino, Gary Oldman’s ex-wife and mother of his two young boys. Pietra decided to bring in this beauty with whom she has much in common to the
show CELEBRITY EX. The show is a reality-based, episodical comedy with more than a twist of reality.
An
actress and former model, Pietra Thornton’s new image has made her virtually a living resurrection in the minds of most who thought she’d gone away forever. She’s been there all along creating and writing, behind the scenes, but taking it all in for ideas for her show. Like the Oscar Night red carpet, Pietra is about to come out again, but this time with her own creative concept to entertain and educate us.