Hollywood legend Brad Pitt has spoken of his ‘journey’ with addiction, explaining how he went to Alcoholics Anonymous after the breakdown of his marriage to Angelina Jolie
Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt has opened up on his struggle with addicted, admitting: “I needed to wake the f*** up.” The actor has spoken out about his “journey” on battling addictions and the work he has one with Alcoholics Anonymous after the breakdown of his marriage to Angelina Jolie. The 61-year-old said he had to seek help after his second marriage ended, admitting: “I needed rebooting.”
Pitt opened up on the new episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, hosted by Dax Shepard, 50, with the F1 star saying he has had to “confront years of substance dependency” and saying it has been a “really difficult time”.
He said: “I was pretty much on my knees… I needed to wake the f*** up in some areas.
“I was really open to… I was trying anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself.”
He revealed he went to AA in the hope of getting clean for good – but admitted that alcohol was not the only substance that he abused as he tried to get his head around the “fame and attention” he got.
“(AA) help me revoke my drinking privileges,’ he said. “In the ’90s, all that attention really threw me. I really became a bit of a hermit and just bonged myself into oblivion.”
While speaking to Dax, who has publicly discussed his own sobriety journey and relapse after 16 years, Brad recalled feeling nervous when first attending AA.
The actor, who split from Angelina in 2016, added: “It gives you permission to go, ‘OK, I’m gonna step out on this edge and see what happens’. And then I really grew to love it.”
Brad’s decision to get sober came in the wake of his split from Angelina, 49, with whom he shares six children: Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.
The former couple, who met on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005 and married in 2014, were embroiled in a lengthy legal dispute after Angelina filed for divorce in 2016.
It was a process finally concluded in December 2024, following Brad’s 2022 lawsuit over her sale of her share in their Château Miraval estate.
Brad is currently in a relationship with 34-year-old jewellery executive Ines de Ramon, who resides with him in Los Angeles, while Angelina is thought to be single.
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