Brad Pitt is finally talking about what really happened when he and Angelina Jolie split in September 2016. The actor decided to get sober and even ended up going to Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Brad, 55, and Angelina, 44, reportedly split after a fight about his drinking while they were aboard a private plane.
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“I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” the
Ad Astra actor told the
New York Times about his decision to become sober.
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Once the Maleficent actress filed for divorce, he started going to AA. He attended meetings for a year and a half.
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Brad’s group was composed entirely on men. “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard,” he explained about the experience. “It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself.”
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“It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself,” Brad said about sharing his stories in the group. “There’s great value in that.”
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But the
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star was otherwise tight-lipped in the interview about his family dynamics. He filmed
Ad Astra months after Angelina filed for divorce, but would only say about that time, “I had family stuff going on. We’ll leave it at that.”
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Brad and Angelina have
six kids:
Maddox, 18,
Pax, 15,
Zahara, 14,
Shiloh, 13 and 11-year-old twins
Knox and
Vivienne.
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Brad, 55, and Angelina, 44, reportedly split after a fight about his drinking while they were aboard a private plane.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
“I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” the
Ad Astra actor told the
New York Times about his decision to become sober.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Once the Maleficent actress filed for divorce, he started going to AA. He attended meetings for a year and a half.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Brad’s group was composed entirely on men. “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way I have never heard,” he explained about the experience. “It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
“It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself,” Brad said about sharing his stories in the group. “There’s great value in that.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
But the
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star was otherwise tight-lipped in the interview about his family dynamics. He filmed
Ad Astra months after Angelina filed for divorce, but would only say about that time, “I had family stuff going on. We’ll leave it at that.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Brad and Angelina have
six kids:
Maddox, 18,
Pax, 15,
Zahara, 14,
Shiloh, 13 and 11-year-old twins
Knox and
Vivienne.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Photo credit: INSTARImages
