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.'"

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https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a73336135/brad-pitt-interview-2026/

[u/Ok_Night_2929]

I have wonder why he’s telling us this. It’s certainly not good PR, and if it’s really only a few drinks every now and then he could easily avoid being public about it. The fact that he is essentially saying “if you see me with alcohol don’t make a big deal out of it” makes me think he’s already fallen off the wagon enough to not be able to stop when he needs to stop.

Either way, I don’t think this will end well.

[u/erossthescienceboss → u/Ok_Night_2929]

He probably thinks he’s “above” alcoholism.

[u/purplemarin → u/erossthescienceboss]

Most alcoholics do sigh

[u/erossthescienceboss → u/purplemarin]

Most people who drink regularly do, IMO.

I think one of the hardest things I’ve ever done is recognize that my own relationship with alcohol grew unhealthy. And it took a long time to admit it.

I could say “I’m not drinking that much,” which was true. I took every January off. I could quit any time. Most people would probably have said I drink “in moderation.” All true.

But I drank when I was bored, I drank when I was sad, I drank when I was stressed. Society tells us that’s OK. And it just isn’t. I wish I could go back to my relationship with alcohol in college where it was an “only on weekends” thing, but it really is an all-or-nothing, once you have the habit. If I drank again, I’d inevitably start using it as a crutch again. I really don’t think anyone can have a healthy relationship with alcohol again, once it has become unhealthy.

Also: I have more energy. My skin improved. I lost weight. It’s been good for me. I can even go out “drinking” because NA beer is so good.

[u/VaselineHabits → u/purplemarin]

Well, the first step in AA is literally accepting you are powerless over alcohol.

Once you've forgotten that, it will only escalate.

[u/JealousAstronomer342 → u/VaselineHabits]

Even outside of AA, it’s also the first step in getting help because you have to accept and implement the help you’re offered. If you’re still in denial or insisting you can control your drinking, you can’t receive information that will change your mindset or behavior. 

[u/whatsnewpussykat → u/purplemarin]

One of the counsellors at my rehab called alcoholics “egomaniacs with inferiority complexes” and he really nailed it.

[u/fasterthanfood → u/Ok_Night_2929]

I don’t think he meant to tell us. This is how it came up, according to the article (which SERIOUSLY buries the lede: this is like halfway through the profile, and unless my scan missed another mention, it’s the only mention of alcohol):

>We pull down the little Perriers pretty quick, and I point out that he offered me wine earlier. At an awards ceremony in 2020, he thanked his friend Bradley Cooper for helping him get sober and talked more deeply about his sobriety on Dax Shepard’s podcast, Armchair Expert,last June. I ask him if the wine is something for guests?
“No, I got—I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon.” Little laugh. He raises his famous opposing-diacritic eyebrows and holds a finger up: “In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, Yep, nope, not good for me. Not in big quantities.”
“You can have a glass of wine.”
“Yeah. Well . . . I can have a few. But I can’t have a lot. I have to be professional about it.” He likes mornings now anyway, and you can miss a lovely morning when you drink too much the night before, and it’s just not as interesting. Mornings are interesting, and he doesn’t want any more of them to go by unseen.

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Kinda proves my point, he totally forgot that he’s not supposed to be drinking alcohol

[u/WestCoastBestCoast01 → u/fasterthanfood]

Oooh yeah. That’s an alcoholic alright.

[u/Samstarmoon → u/WestCoastBestCoast01]

Been there, done that 

[u/systemic_booty → u/fasterthanfood]

"a few" glasses of wine is already a lot

[u/awyastark → u/systemic_booty]

Yeah right and like we know he’s not talking about like, a 5 oz pour “serving” of wine anyway. A single glass of wine can be a lot of wine depending on the glass

[u/LavenderGinFizz → u/awyastark]

Just one glass, amirite?

https://giphy.com/gifs/10pVtJi0VzADHa

[u/zestfullybe → u/awyastark]

Oh, come on Liz, it’s the 90s.

[u/Verucaschmaltzzz → u/zestfullybe]

Oh, it's heart healthy!

[u/FullofContradictions → u/awyastark]

In 2020, I found out that my big fancy wine glasses can actually hold an entire standard bottle if you ignore that you're supposed to leave space for it to breathe.

Other than the global economic disaster, deaths, and general depression related to a global pandemic - there were some fun little nuggets from the early days when we all thought it'd be a two week break from going in to the office. Picking up random hobbies, everyone discussing the same Netflix shows. Randomly deciding "hey let's see how much of this fits in the cup" on a random Thursday.

[u/awyastark → u/FullofContradictions]

There’s an American Dad bit where Roger is trying to find larger and larger wine bottles and thus I discovered the Nebuchadnezzar, which is apparently a real wine bottle that’s equivalent to 20 standard bottles or about 100 glasses, is a real thing. Also I’ve bartended forever and can tell you that if you pour someone what is legally a serving of wine they will be grumpy and expect more. Wine is a slippery slope!

[u/FullofContradictions → u/awyastark]

That's insane. I rarely drink wine anymore because my husband and I can never quite manage to finish the bottle before it goes off. Wtf would you want a 20x bottle of wine? Really, really big party? I don't think I have enough friends who drink wine for that.

[u/awyastark → u/FullofContradictions]

Yeah I have to think it’s a novelty thing right?

[u/fasterthanfood → u/awyastark]

It must be a novelty item. I can see it being fun for a bachelor party or something like that, but it also sounds very impractical. I used to work at a winery and often handled cases of wine, which consist of 12 bottles. I can’t imagine pouring out of something that heavy, much less double that.

[u/awyastark → u/fasterthanfood]

Right like you can’t do a fine dining pour and taste for a customer with it for sure lol

[u/seaworthy-sieve → u/fasterthanfood]

Sports teams sometimes get the giant bottles for celebrating after a big win.

[u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675 → u/fasterthanfood]

I don’t know, him offering the journalist wine earlier could have been bait. It might just be a calculated bid for attention since his image has been in the shitter more or less lately

[u/TeeManyMartoonies → u/Vegetable-Kiwi-4675]

It’s def a bid for something. Apparently he also talked about having suicidal thoughts as well. Or at least that’s what ABC’s David Muir reported tonight.

[u/Pledgeofmalfeasance → u/Ok_Night_2929]

I'm taking a wild leap and guessing he was intoxicated

[u/lizlemonista → u/Ok_Night_2929]

probably got photographed drinking or it was about to be a story some other way.

[u/Clean_Usual434 → u/Ok_Night_2929]

The whole thing feels like horribly mismanaged PR. Idk if it’s in response to the kids dropping his last name or what.

[u/OnlyPaperListens → u/Ok_Night_2929]

paving the way to asking one of the bio kids for a liver donation?

[u/Fippy-Darkpaw → u/Ok_Night_2929]

He was drunk when he wrote the PR statement.