{"id":809192,"date":"2026-08-10T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809192\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:52:09","slug":"brad-pitt-says-hes-drinking-again-after-7-years-of-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/809192\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt Says He’s Drinking Again After 7 Years of Sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAfter seven years of sobriety, Brad Pitt<\/a> says he\u2019s drinking again \u2014 in moderation. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe F1 and Fight Club star told Esquire<\/a> that he\u2019s off the wagon. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe topic came up after Pitt offered the interviewer a glass of wine, prompting him to wonder whether the wine was only for guests.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo, I got\u2014I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,\u201d Pitt said with a \u201clittle laugh,\u201d before holding a finger up to emphasize this next part: \u201cIn a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, \u2018Yep, nope, not good for me.\u2019 Not in big quantities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAsked what that meant in practice, the 62-year-old star explained, \u201c\u2009I can have a few [glasses of wine]. But I can\u2019t have a lot. I have to be professional about it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a 2017 GQ interview<\/a>, Pitt talked about getting sober and said he couldn\u2019t remember a day since leaving college when he wasn\u2019t drinking, smoking pot, or using something. He also noted he loved wine and had taken it too far. In 2019, Pitt told The New York Times he spent a year and a half in an all-male recovery group in Alcoholics Anonymous. In 2020, Pitt publicly thanked Bradley Cooper at the National Board of Review gala for helping him get sober. <\/p>\n

\n\tGiven the timeline, and Pitt saying he\u2019d been sober for seven years, it sounds like the actor has been off the wagon for at least a couple years. <\/p>\n

\n\tPitt was also asked about reprising the role of stuntman Cliff Booth in Netflix\u2019s upcoming The Adventures of Cliff Booth movie at Netflix (which is directed by David Fincher and written by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood writer-director Quentin Tarantino). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe interviewer was shown the film\u2019s first 24 minutes, and described the footage as \u201ca movie lover\u2019s dream \u2026 Fincher\u2019s kill-shot direction of Tarantino\u2019s ace script and Pitt carrying the whole thing with a smirk? Make another one.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tPitt described the film as playing more like a series of episodic TV segments strung together than a sequel per se. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Cliff Booth film is scheduled to be released Nov. 25 as an Imax exclusive for two weeks before debuting on Netflix on Dec. 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After seven years of sobriety, Brad Pitt says he\u2019s drinking again \u2014 in moderation. The F1 and Fight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[13158,236,88],"class_list":["post-809192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brad-pitt","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}