EntertainmentBrad Pitt recalls his first meeting of anonymous alcoholics after Angelina Jolie’s divorce: ‘I needed to wake up to C ******’ ‘it was a particularly difficult time, ”the actor told Armchair Expert host Dax Shepard, who also attended that specific meeting of the Redation

Brad Pitt recalled the first recovery meeting of Anonymous alcoholics who attended after his troubled divorce of Angelina Jolie. In conversation with Dax Shepardpresenter of Armchair Expert – who was also present at this meeting – the actor said, “I needed a reboot, I needed to wake up to C ****** in some areas of my life.”

Shepard commented that “a multitude of famous people” has already gone through that same meeting of the AAbut recognized that the presence of Pitt It was “intense”, as expected of a superstrela. He said he even doubted if that environment would allow Pitt Open the way the recovery process requires, but it didn’t happen.

“You were so incredibly honest,” he said Shepard the Pitt. “I thought, he must have a stubbornness like mine, like,” yes, all this is happening, but I refuse to let it keep me from being a person. “

Pitt He admitted that he had never thought of the experience in these terms, and suggested that his willingness to open came from the critical state in which he was. “I was practically on the floor, on my knees,” he said.

It was really open to… I tried anything someone suggested. It was a particularly difficult period.

Although Pitt He admitted that he felt a certain nervousness at the beginning of the conversation, he said that seeing everyone being “so open” gave him, in a way, the permission to think, “Okay, I will risk and see what it gives.” He added by saying, “Then I simply began to love that.”

Earlier in the interview, Pitt He commented on how it was “amazing” to be in a room with other men “sharing their experiences, their defects, their stumbles, their desires, their pains – and also with a lot of humor involved.” He said it was a “really special” experience, especially for growing up in the Ozarks, Missouri, where people often hide their feelings and insist that “everything is great.”

Pitt had already talked about his participation in the meetings of Anonymous alcoholics After the end with Jolie in an interview with New York Timesin 2019. At the time, he said, “It was, in fact, something very liberating to expose the ugly sides of oneself. There is a great value on that.”

The divorce of Pitt and Jolie He was precipitated by an infamous fight in a private jet that would have started because of the actor’s alcohol consumption. According to legal documents revealed over the long process of separation of the couple, Pitt would have assaulted Jolie and two of your children during the flight. The FBI and the Los Angeles County Child and Family Services Department investigated the case, but both concluded that there was no need to take additional measures against the actor.

The divorce between Pitt and Jolie It was finally completed at the end of 2024.

This article was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Jon Blistein on June 23, 2025 and can be seen here.

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