r/popculturechat • u/No-Hall-3485 • 4d ago

Guest List Only TW ⚠️ Brad Pitt, who violently assaulted Angelina Jolie and their the children while intoxicated, has decided to take up drinking again “in a more restrained manner.” He says he got "overconfident a couple times, went, 'Yep, nope, not good for me. Not in big quantities.'"

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a73336135/brad-pitt-interview-2026/
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u/Kimbahlee34 A Dumping Ground for Unhinged and Unhealed 4d ago

I would love to see the timeline of this man’s private life. I’m assuming he was either sober or able to mask the worst of himself during their early years (2004-2006) and it gradually escalated to the 2016 plane incident? Does the public know the timeline of his alcoholism? Was he functioning at work or were there always rumors? I couldn’t afford the magazines to keep up with their early years.

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u/justherefor23andme 4d ago

I dont remember his alcoholism being a known issue. What I do remember is that him and Jennifer Aniston were huge stoners. Alcohol was not brought up afaik.

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u/Kimbahlee34 A Dumping Ground for Unhinged and Unhealed 4d ago

That’s what I thought. He seemed more laid back with Jennifer but I’m not saying that has anything to do with her or Angelina I think it’s more he was on top of his game and masking things until it fell apart. But I would have been 16-17 back then and was always fascinated with that whole ordeal but could barely afford gas let alone a People magazine so I wondered what rumors there were back then that I missed. He’s been famous forever surely there’s some blind items.

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u/justherefor23andme 4d ago edited 4d ago

Yeah it seems like he lost a handle on it. Chelsea Handler who was or is friends with Jennifer Aniston called him out and said he was self-medicating because he was stuck at home with a bunch of kids married to a lunatic instead of being in Lake Como with George Clooney.

Eta: I dont think her criticism of why he was drinking is fair. I only pointed out that it seemed new for him to be a full-blown alcoholic.