Brad Pitt reveals shocking details about personal life
May 4, 2017
In an interview with GQ Style, the celebrity revealed details about his problems with alcohol, the end of "Brangelina," and his newfound love of therapy. He also added that acting is not important to him.
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In an extensive interview released Wednesday, Brad Pitt revealed details about his personal struggles.
The celebrity world was shocked when Pitt's wife, Angelina Jolie announced their split in December 2016. The couple had been together since 2004 and has six children.
Jolie accused Pitt of hitting their teenage son on a flight from France to Los Angeles, sparking tabloid gossip and an FBI probe.
Pitt was cleared by the FBI and social workers and wants joint legal and physical custody of Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and twins Vivienne and Knox, eight, while Jolie is demanding sole guardianship.
The split, says Pitt, was a "huge generator for change." The 53-year old actor revealed that he has quit drinking alcohol and replaced it with cranberry juice and fizzy water.
"I'm really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know - things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing too much," he said.
Pitt added that he loved wine and could "drink a Russian under the table with his own bottle." "I was a professional. I was good," he told the magazine's summer edition.
Substances, said Pitt, had long been part of his life: "I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something..." He revealed that alcohol was getting in the way of his life.
"It's just become a problem. And I'm really happy it's been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I've got my feelings in my fingertips again."
As for his relationship with Jolie, Pitt said they have abandoned the path of "vitriolic hatred" and have been working together to sort out their issues.
As for the movie business, "I don't really think of myself much as an actor anymore. It takes up so little of my year and my focus. Film feels like a cheap pass for me, as a way to get at those hard feelings. It doesn't work anymore, especially being a dad."
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The rise and fall of Brangelina
After over ten years as one of Hollywood's most powerful couples, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have split. DW takes a look at their relationship from its steamy on-set beginnings to its surprising, sudden end.
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Romance on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
In 2004, Pitt and Jolie fell in love on the set of action comedy "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." The film made the relationship between the two actors public but stirred controversy as Pitt was still married to actress Jennifer Aniston at the time.
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Brangelina's large family
The couple has a total of six children. Jolie adopted her Cambodian-born son Maddox and Ethiopian-born daughter Zahara prior to her relationship with Pitt. In 2006, Jolie gave birth to their daughter Shiloh in Namibia. One year later, the couple adopted a Vietnamese-born son named Pax. In 2008, Jolie gave birth to twins Vivienne and Knox in the French city of Nice.
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Chateau de Jolie-Pitt
Pitt and Jolie relocate to the Chateau Miraval, a vineyard estate in southern France in 2008. The couple would later hold their wedding ceremony at the home.
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Marriage delay
Pitt said he and Jolie would not get married until "everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able," in an interview with Esquire in 2006. He repeated this statement in 2009 and 2011. Marriage equality was finally achieved in the US in 2015, one year after the couple's marriage.
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Charitable couple
Pitt and Jolie started a foundation to focus on supporting aid organizations and has donated millions of dollars to charities such as Doctors Without Borders. In 2012, Jolie was named a special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Brave announcement
In 2013, Jolie announced that she underwent a voluntary double mastectomy as a precautionary measure against breast cancer. She urged other women to take preventative measures. "I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive," she wrote at the time.
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French chateau wedding
Pitt and Jolie finally married in 2014 in a nondenominational ceremony in southern France. The couple's children helped to design the patterns on Jolie's wedding dress. The children also participated in the ceremony as ring bearers, flower girls, and escorts down the aisle.
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Foreboding final film
The couple co-stared in the 2015 movie "By the Sea," a drama about the disintegration of a marriage. Jolie wrote and directed the film which received less a less than stellar response from critics. She filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016.
