{"id":456190,"date":"2026-03-04T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456190\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:47:10","slug":"christina-applegate-reveals-why-she-ditched-brad-pitt-for-a-rockstar-during-awards-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456190\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate reveals why she ditched Brad Pitt for a rockstar during awards show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christina Applegate<\/a> has revealed that her ex Brad Pitt<\/a> didn\u2019t speak to her for years after she invited him on a date only to ditch him for another man.<\/p>\n

The Dead To Me star was just 15 when she rose to fame as Kelly Bundy in Fox\u2019s first sitcom Married\u2026 With Children, and is now looking back at her life in her memoir You With The Sad Eyes. It details her career, as well as her life since being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Applegate\u2019s career has featured awards wins and blockbuster roles, the 54-year-old admitted in her memoir that there was one embarrassing moment in her past that proved to be \u2013 to reference one of Pitt\u2019s other exes \u2013 a real sliding doors moment.<\/p>\n

In 1989, Applegate was 17, and in an extended friendship group containing a \u201clittle\u2010known actor named Brad Pitt<\/a>\u201d. Her and Pitt\u2019s friendship was always platonic, Applegate explained, \u201cthen one day I took another look at Brad and thought, hmm… Apparently, he did the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Applegate was due to appear at the MTV Video Music Awards, and invited Pitt to come along as her date. As she needed to be there early, he was \u201ckind enough\u201d to drive to her house and take her mother, the actress Nancy Priddy, and best friend Lori Allison, who had previously been married to Johnny Depp, to the awards.<\/p>\n

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Applegate told the story in her new memoir (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

However, any chance at romance got derailed when Applegate laid eyes on musician Sebastian Bach, the \u201clong\u2010haired hunk\u201d who was the frontman of mortal band Skid Row and had a one-year-old child.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt so powerful and sure of myself for once that when the awards show was over, I left with Sebastian Bach, not Brad Pitt,\u201d Applegate admitted. \u201cI hate to put it like this, but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn\u2019t yet THE Brad Pitt, the man of so many people\u2019s dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Applegate (right) on ‘Married… With Children’ in 1990, aged 18 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

After Applegate ditched him, Pitt ended up \u201csullenly\u201d driving her mother and Allison home. He also narrowly avoided getting into a fight with \u201ca bunch of gang members\u201d while stopping at a petrol station on the way back, meaning the actor was \u201csubsequently very mad\u201d at Applegate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t talk for many years after that. Much later, but at different times, two of his movie star girlfriends asked me if it was true that I was the girl who left Brad behind at the MTV Video Music Awards. Brad had apparently told both of them separately that he was still mad at me.<\/p>\n

\u201cEventually, we agreed that I\u2019d been a kid, and though he\u2019d deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row. Of course, Brad is now THE Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach . . . well, he still has long hair, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach, pictured in 2013 (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Applegate previously spoke about ditching Pitt for Bach on an episode of Watch What Happens Live in 2015, when she revealed that the man she\u2019d left the awards with was known to the public but not an actor, and that they hadn\u2019t ended up dating.<\/p>\n

Bach identified himself as the man in question the following year while promoting his autobiography. \u201cThat dude would be me,\u201d he said. \u201cSo there was a time on this earth when Sebastian Bach was, like, a hotter lay than Brad Pitt. Of course that\u2019s going in the book. I\u2019ve gotta tell somebody that!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}