Brad Pitt Details First Experiences in AA Meeting After Angelina Jolie Divorce
Brad Pitt has rarely alluded to the personal struggles he faced following his highly publicized divorce from Angelina Jolie in the mid 2010s.
But in a new interview with Dax Shepard on the popular Armchair Expert podcast, the 61-year-old actor has provided candid insight into his experiences after splitting from Jolie, including his first Alcoholic Anonymous meeting alongside the 50-year-old Shepard.
"I just thought it was just incredible, men sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches, and a lot of humor with it," Pitt said of his initial AA meeting. "I thought it was a really special experience."
Looking back at this first meeting, Shepard said that he was initially worried the fame surrounding Pitt might deter him from sharing honest insight into past struggles with substance abuse. Much to the comedian's surprise, however, Shepard remembered Pitt approaching the meeting with a surprising amount of honesty and candor.
"You were so f***ing honest," Shepard commented to Pitt. "I was like, he must have a stubbornness like I have, which is like, 'Yeah, all this is going on, but I refuse to let it not let me be a person.'"
Agreeing with Shepard's assessment, Pitt said that the primary reason for his blunt honesty at the time came from a genuine desire to get better, allowing him to improve his life by putting certain past mistakes behind him.
"I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open," Pitt said. "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**k up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me."
"When I've stepped in s**t, I'm pretty good at taking responsibility for it and owning up to it," the Fight Club actor continued. "And now it's a quest to, you know, 'What do I do with this? How can I right this?' And make sure it doesn't happen again."
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