“It was a particularly difficult period,” the actor explained in a long interview. “I needed a new beginning”
It was not an easy time for Brad Pittin the cinema these days with F1 – The Movie. After living years tormented, marked by addictions, pain and a profound personal crisis, the actor, today sixty -one -year -old, chose to tell himself without filters in the podcast Armchair Expertconducted by Dax Shepard. An intimate dialogue, in which Pitt traces the darkest moments of his life: from the collapse followed by divorce with Angelina Jolie, in the long run against addiction to Alcohol and marijuanaup to the new balance reached also thanks to the anonymous alcoholics.
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Brad Pitt and the divorce from Angelina Jolie
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When Angelina Jolie asked the divorce in 2016, Brad Pitt suddenly found herself dealing with an existence that was getting out of hand. “I was practically on their knees“, he said.” I tried everything and everyone. Whatever they pulled me on me. “And again:”I needed to start again. I needed to give me a wake up. “
The separation was not only emotionally devastating, but also marked the beginning of an investigation for alleged abuses on one of the children during a private jet flight. Although Pitt was then exonerated from all charges, that episode left deep scars. Two of his six children decided not to bring his surname anymore.
“A new beginning”
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The star of Fight Club He has never made a secret of the pain experienced in those months. “It was a particularly difficult period,” he explained. “I needed a new beginning“. The crisis prompted him to seek help in therapy and support groups.” When I started the therapy, I was like: ‘And I did this, and I did that, and blah blah blah’. It was all very desperate, “said Pitt, admitting that he had been a” stubborn son of … “in the past. Then, with a rediscovered lucidityhowever, he also recognized his strengths: “When I beat a m …, I was good enough to take responsibility and remedy me. Now it became a mission: ‘What do I do with this? How can I fix it?'”.
Brad Pitt and the abuse of alcohol and marijuana
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Pitt confessed to having lived a “out of control” year completely, during which smoke marijuana Even before breakfast. “I just didn’t stop acting,” he admitted. His healing path began with the decision to enter a group of anonymous alcoholics. “It is incredible to find themselves among many people capable of sharing their weaknesses, their false steps, their desires, their pains too”. An experience that at the end of the accounts proved to be fundamental.
The first time that Brad Pitt publicly spoke of anonymous alcoholics was in 2019, in an interview with New York Times. Then he said, “I had gone too far and alcohol was a vice from which I absolutely had to get rid of me.” At that moment, he set aside his father’s voice that he told him he never showed himself weak and relying on the group. “Suddenly I found myself sitting in a room, surrounded by men who told their problems with strangers in the most honest and open way I had ever seen,” he explained. “It was a safe space in which no one judged you for what you had done, and therefore you didn’t judge yourself. It was a catharsis. I felt I felt Really free to bring out my worst sidelook at him in the face, show it to others “.
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