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Brad admits he used alcohol to escape Angelina

The actor says he abused 'drugs and booze'
  • 21 Sep 2019

Brad Pitt has opened up about how he turned to alcohol and drugs to 'escape' his split from ex wife Angelina Jolie back in 2016. 

"What I realised is that I was running to avoid tough feelings, painful feelings,’ he said on their relationship ending. I just didn’t know how to deal with them. Anything I found that I used for escape," he told Metro. 

"Those kinds of difficult feelings, I don’t know how better to describe it. It can be anything, drugs, booze, Netflix, snacks. Anything."

 

 

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Now the Ad Astra star admits he doesn't want to be 'running from anything' now. 

"I want to sit in it, I want to feel it, I want to get through the rough night. I found in doing so, you come out the other side with a more profound understanding, of yourself and a greater gratefulness of those in your life," he told CNN.

"And the birds and the trees and everything else."

The 55-year old also opened up to The Project's Carrie Bickmore about his substance abuse. 

"We all carry deep pains to different degrees and regrets," the 55-year-old actor told Bickmore.

"We are very good, certainly in my culture, at burying those. I think (talking about) it leads to more well-rounded, certainly more comfortable existence with yourself and greater peace of mind and I find that you can enjoy the good stuff more," he added.

Brad - who shares Maddox, 18, Pax, 15, Zahara, 14, Shiloh, 13, and 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with ex-wife Angelina - has become increasingly vocal about his experiences at Alcoholics Anonymous.

Chatting with the New York Times earlier this month, the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood star revealed the reason why he joined the twelve-step program

"I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges," he admitted.

In the interview, Brad also admitted to previous abuse of marijuana when he was a rising star in the '90s. 

"In the 90s, all that attention really threw me.

"I really became a bit of a hermit and just bonged myself into oblivion."

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