Brad Pitt says he needed ‘rebooting' and looked forward to AA meetings

The Herald Scotland

4 hours ago

Speaking on the podcast Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, he described attending the AA meetings as an 'amazing experience'.
Brad Pitt said he thought it was a 'really special experience' (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Pitt said: 'I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open. I was trying anything and everyone. Anything anyone threw at me.
'It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. I needed to wake the f*** up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me.
'It was really moving. Some of these men were so moving.
'What an amazing thing this experience was for me. It was a men's group was AA, it was when I first was getting sober. I just thought it was just incredible men sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches, and lot of humour with it.
'I thought it was a really special experience.'
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attending the premiere of Maleficent in London (Justin Tallis/PA)
The divorce led to a long-running legal battle between the two stars, with a settlement reached in December.
Pitt shares six children with Jolie with one of them, a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, becoming the first to request a legal name change in May.
Prior to Jolie, he was married to Friends star Jennifer Aniston until their split in 2005.
He added that he was a little shy when he first attended the meetings but that it later became something he looked 'forward to'.
Pitt said: 'When I've stepped in shit, I'm pretty good at taking responsibility for it, owning up to it.
Brad Pitt with his best supporting actor Oscar for Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood (Jennifer Graylock/PA)
'How can I write this and make sure it doesn't happen again, or just be better. Step up.
'So I was really open to that, and I was really open to see what these guys were doing, who had their thing and been there for a while. Sure, I was a bit shy. I can generally be a bit shy in any kind of situation at first, but I just remember getting my arms around it pretty quickly, and it became a thing for me. It was really something I'd look forward to.'
The award-winning actor is known for films including Fight Club, 12 Years A Slave and Moneyball and has received six Oscar nominations, taking two home including actor in a supporting role for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood.
He appears in F1: The Movie which follows a racer as he tries to lead a struggling Formula 1 team.
The film stars Pitt alongside Snowfall star Damson Idris and Kerry Condon, known for The Banshees Of Inisherin.
Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise attending the F1: The Movie European premiere at Cineworld Leicester Square, London (Ian West/PA)
Pitt attended the European Premiere for F1: The Movie in London on Monday and posed for photographs with Mission Impossible star Tom Cruise.