Brad Pitt confessed he has started drinking again after quitting alcohol for seven years.
The actor went sober after splitting from Angelina Jolie amid accusations that he poured booze on her and their children during a volatile flight on board a private jet in 2016.
The winery owner subsequently announced he had turned his back on drink and had been working through inner demons at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Now Pitt, 62, is back to gulping wine, but in moderation according to him.
In a wide-ranging interview with Esquire, the actor admitted he had gotten ‘back off the wagon’ after the interviewer noticed the star had offered him a glass of wine.
When asked if the beverage was for guests, Pitt responded: ‘No, I got – I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,’ he said, offering a little laugh.’
In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, “Yep, nope, not good for me.” Not in big quantities.’
Pitt clarified he was now able to ‘have a few’ glasses of wine but is unable to indulge any further.
‘Yeah. Well… I can have a few. But I can’t have a lot. I have to be professional about it,’ Pitt said.
‘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,’ the profile noted of Pitt.
‘Mornings are interesting, and he doesn’t want any more of them to go by unseen.’
The star has been candid about his sober-curious journey in recent years and publicly thanked actor (and sponsor to the stars) Bradley Cooper for helping him get sober.
‘I got sober because of this guy,’ he said during a 2020 acceptance speech at the National Board of Review’s annual awards gala. ‘And every day has been happier since.’
