Among brad pittof his long career in Hollywood, he has been candid about his mental and physical health issues over the years.
“I think I spent years with mild depression, and it was only by accepting that, trying to embrace all sides of me – the beauty and the ugliness – that I was able to grasp these moments of joy, “the Once upon a time in Hollywood star said QG in an August 2022 profile. “I think all of our hearts are broken.”
Pitt, who was previously married to Angelina Jolie between 2014 and 2016, often used alcohol as a coping mechanism before focusing on his sobriety.
“I had a really cool male date [Alcoholic’s Anonymous] group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe,” he told the magazine. “Because I had seen other people’s things that were recorded as they emptied their guts, and that’s just excruciating to me.”
The Oklahoma native – who shares kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, twins Vivienne and Knox with the Eternals actress – has previously been candid about her struggles with sobriety.
“The fact is, we all carry the pain, the grief and the loss,” Pitt said. The New York Times in September 2019 to deal with his separation from Jolie in 2016. “We spend most of our time hiding it, but it is there, it is in you. So you open those boxes. I had pushed things as far as I could, so I took away my drinking privileges.
He continued, “You had all these men sitting around being open and honest in a way that I’ve never heard of. It was that safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little self-judgment. It was actually very freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself. There is great value in that.
The ad astra The star made headlines in June 2022, revealing he had been self-diagnosed with prosopagnosia or ‘face blindness’.
“No one believes me! I want to meet another [who has the same condition],” he said QG at the time. “I’ve always felt very lonely in my life…lonely as a kid, lonely even here, and it’s really only recently that I’ve had a bigger embrace from my friends and family. What is that line it was Rilke or Einstein believe it or not but it was something about when you can walk with paradox, when you carry real pain and real joy simultaneously, that’s maturity , is growth.
Scroll below to review Pitt’s health ups and downs over the years: