{"id":37225,"date":"2026-08-10T21:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37225"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:16:44","slug":"brad-pitt-details-past-suicidal-thoughts-over-family-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=37225","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt Details Past Suicidal Thoughts Over &#8220;Family Stuff&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/brad-pitt-suicidal-family-stuff.jpg?quality=80\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1616938\" data-title=\"Brad Pitt Reveals He Once Felt \u201cSuicidal\u201d Over \u201cFamily Stuff\u201d\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/08\/brad-pitt-suicidal-thoughts-family-stuff\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/brad-pitt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brad Pitt<\/a> has revealed that he felt suicidal during \u201cone little period\u201d when he was looking for relief from pain related to \u201cfamily stuff\u201d that he was dealing with at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old actor opened up about the experience during\u00a0a new interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a73336135\/brad-pitt-interview-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em>Esquire<\/em><\/a> following a discussion about loss and grief, the latter of which Pitt described as \u201cthe most leveling of all emotions.\u201d Though Pitt described himself as an eternal optimist who \u201cwon the lottery,\u201d even he went through a period when he thought about ending it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was never suicidal in any way. It just was not my makeup,\u201d he explained. \u201cIn fact, if I have any afflictions, it\u2019s probably being a congenital optimist. Which has helped many times, and it\u2019s also gotten me \u2014 I\u2019ve walked foolishly head-on into a Mack truck because of my optimism. Or, as my forever-funny friend David Fincher will say, Yeah, you see the glass as half full, but it\u2019s half full of urine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Pitt continued, \u201cI\u2019ve never been suicidal except for one little period. And in that one little period, I just thought \u2014 I just couldn\u2019t \u2014 just didn\u2019t see a way out. The pain was so oppressive that \u2014 I wasn\u2019t going to act on this, but I could feel \u2014 I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief. And I thought, Oh, okay, now I understand \u2014 I understand suicide, in the sense that it\u2019s just relief. It\u2019s 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\u2026 Listen: This shit ain\u2019t easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on where the pain was coming from, Pitt said it was\u00a0\u201cfamily stuff\u201d and added,\u00a0\u201cWe could leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear exactly when this \u201cfamily stuff\u201d took place, but Angelina Jolie filed for a divorce from Pitt in September 2016 that became official in 2019. In a countersuit filed in 2022 over a French winery they once owned together, <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2022\/10\/angelina-jolie-brad-pitt-choked-one-child-struck-another\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jolie\u00a0accused Pitt of choking and striking<\/a> their children on a 2016 plane ride they took just days before she filed for divorce.<\/p>\n<p>According to the filing, Pitt \u201cchoked one of the children and struck another in the face.\u201d He was also accused of grabbing \u201cJolie by the head\u201d and pouring alcohol on both her and the children. While the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2022\/08\/angelina-jolie-sued-fbi-brad-pitt-domestic-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">did investigate the case<\/a>, they declined to press charges.<\/p>\n<p>In the same 2022 filing, Jolie alleged she had tried to sell her share of the winery to Pitt, but talks broke down after she refused to sign a \u201cnondisclosure agreement that would have contractually prohibited her from speaking outside of court about Pitt\u2019s physical and emotional abuse of her and their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the former couple\u2019s second-eldest daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie, legally dropped Pitt from her name. This year, three of their other children have filed paperwork to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that Pitt shared with <em>Esquire<\/em> that his mother died last year.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his interview with <em>Esquire<\/em>, Pitt revealed that he is no longer sober. \u201cI was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,\u201d he said. Pitt added that he now drinks in a \u201cmore restrained manner,\u201d noting, \u201cI can have a few. But I can\u2019t have a lot. 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