{"id":581055,"date":"2026-08-11T04:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581055\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:40:08","slug":"brad-pitt-says-that-hes-drinking-again-after-seven-years-of-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581055\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt says that he’s drinking again after seven years of sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brad Pitt<\/a> has revealed that he\u2019s back on the sauce. <\/p>\n

During a vulnerable interview published in Esquire<\/a> on Monday, Pitt said he\u2019d started drinking again, in moderation. \u201cI was sober for seven years,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I got back off the wagon.\u201d <\/p>\n

The be-all and end-all of movie stars, Pitt had a messy, highly publicized (and litigated) divorce from fellow cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me star Angelina Jolie<\/a> that stretched from 2016 to 2024. Jolie filed to end the power couple\u2019s two-year marriage after an alleged alcohol-fueled incident on a private plane<\/a>. The fallout has been consequential for both stars, and served as the catalyst for Pitt seeking help<\/a> through Alcoholics Anonymous. <\/p>\n

Now, maybe after a seven-year itch, Pitt is trying to rework his relationship with alcohol, this time \u201cin a more restrained manner.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI got overconfident a couple times, went, \u2018Yep, nope, not good for me. Not in big quantities,\u2019\u201d he told Esquire. <\/p>\n

When it comes to wine, Pitt says, \u201cWell \u2009.\u2009.\u2009. \u2009I can have a few. But I can\u2019t have a lot. I have to be professional about it.\u201d <\/p>\n

The \u201cHeart of the Beast\u201d star has been candid about his sober-curious journey in recent years and publicly thanked actor (and sponsor to the stars) Bradley Cooper for helping him get sober. \u201cI got sober because of this guy,\u201d he said<\/a> during a 2020 acceptance speech at the National Board of Review\u2019s annual awards gala. \u201cAnd every day has been happier since.\u201d <\/p>\n

And last June, the Oscar winner sat down with Dax Shepard for an episode of \u201cArmchair Expert<\/a>\u201d and opened up about the positive experience he\u2019d had in the 12-step program. \u201cI am a stubborn f\u2014, but when I\u2019ve stepped in s\u2014, I\u2019m pretty good at taking responsibility for it and owning up to it,\u201d he told Shepard. \u201cAnd now it\u2019s a quest to … make sure it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the Esquire story, Pitt admitted that, during the darkest period of grappling with what he referred to as \u201cfamily stuff,\u201d he could see how suicide might feel like relief \u2014 but that his survival instinct kicked in. He discussed feeling immense grief and how that grief can leave a gaping hole. Rather than climbing out of it, Pitt said he thought of it as \u201cgoing through it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd trying and trying and trying and trying to the point of exhaustion and then trying again,\u201d he told the magazine. \u201cI don\u2019t want to ignore the place where you run up against the wall. But I just one day woke up, and it just felt a little sunnier and the air felt a little sweeter. Just microdoses of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt has revealed that he\u2019s back on the sauce. During a vulnerable interview published in Esquire on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[262824,262821,16985,93629,57792,3962,146,262820,3417,85,262822,46,166984,262823,1529,65557,762,1661],"class_list":["post-581055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alcoholics-anonymous","tag-big-quantity","tag-brad-pitt","tag-catalyst","tag-dax-shepard","tag-day","tag-entertainment","tag-esquire","tag-help","tag-il","tag-immense-grief","tag-israel","tag-movie-star","tag-national-board","tag-review","tag-sobriety","tag-time","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}