Brad Pitt was spotted tipping back drinks at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding in July — just before publicly admitting he is off the wagon after seven years
A source told Page Six last month that the “Ocean’s 8,” star had been seen imbibing at the star-studded affair at Madison Square Garden on July 3.
The source noted at the time that guests were shocked to see Pitt, who has been vocal about his sobriety, drinking at the high-profile event that brought out Adam Sandler, Paul McCartney, Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Tom Cruise and more.
Pitt attended Swift and Kelce’s wedding with girlfriend, Ines de Ramon.
In an Esquire interview published Monday, the Oscar winner confirmed that he had made the decision to drink again.
“I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,” Pitt confessed in the interview. “In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, ‘Yep, nope, not good for me.’ Not in big quantities.”
Pitt explained he “can have a few” glasses of wine, but he “can’t have a lot.”
“I have to be professional about it,” he said.
Pitt first revealed he was sober and joined a 12-step program in a 2019 New York Times interview.
“I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privilege,” he said at the time.
Pitt quit drinking after an alleged 2016 drunken plane incident that is said to have contributed to the disintegration of his marriage to Angelina Jolie.
Jolie claimed in court documents that her then-husband physically harmed her and one of their six kids — Maddox, 25, Pax, 22, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 18. The FBI investigated, but ultimately did not bring any charges against the two-time Oscar winner.
The “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-stars were declared legally single in 2019 and settled their divorce in 2024.
Pitt is estranged from most of his children and several have dropped his last name.
In the candid interview, Pitt also opened up about a dark period in his life, admitting that he once felt suicidal while navigating “family stuff.”
“I’ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just thought — I just couldn’t — just didn’t see a way out,” the “Fight Club” actor said. “The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn’t going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief.”
He continued, “And I thought, ‘Oh, okay, now I understand’ — I understand suicide, in the sense that it’s just relief. It’s just looking for relief from the pain. But I also think we have incredible survival instincts. And for me, that immediately kicked in, but it was just …”
After a pause, Pitt said, “This s–t ain’t easy. And you’re talking to a guy who won the lottery.”
When the reporter asked the “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” star if he was dealing with “kid stuff,” he replied, “Family stuff. We could leave it at that.”
Pitt stars in several upcoming movies including “Heart of the Beast,” an untitled project written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by David Fincher, and “The Riders.”
If you or someone you care about is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call SAMHSA’s National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).
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