{"id":39866,"date":"2026-08-12T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39866"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:48:35","slug":"what-brad-pitt-has-said-about-drinking-sobriety-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=39866","title":{"rendered":"What Brad Pitt Has Said About Drinking, Sobriety Through the Years"},"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<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/brad_pitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brad<\/strong> <strong>Pitt<\/strong><\/a>, a few glasses of wine are back on the table.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The actor recently shared that, after remaining sober for seven years, he &#8220;got back off the wagon,&#8221; albeit &#8220;in a more restrained manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, Pitt explained to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/movies\/a73336135\/brad-pitt-interview-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><em>Esquire<\/em><\/a>, he can have more than one glass of wine but not &#8220;a lot.&#8221; Rather, he has &#8220;to be professional about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 62-year-old apparently found out what worked for him by trial and error, divulging that he &#8220;got overconfident a couple times, went, &#8216;Yep, nope, not good for me. Not in big quantities.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this update was in keeping with previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/848148\/why-brad-pitt-won-the-jolie-pitt-war-by-throwing-himself-on-his-sword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">candid admissions<\/a> Pitt has made over the years about alcohol and marijuana use, telling\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/brad-pitt-gq-style-cover-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">GQ<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>in 2017\u2014about six months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/angelina_jolie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Angelina Jolie<\/strong><\/a> filed for divorce\u2014that he &#8220;stopped everything except boozing when I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1403248\/a-complete-guide-to-angelina-jolie-and-brad-pitts-6-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">started my family<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jolie adopted son <strong>Maddox<\/strong> in 2002, daughter <strong>Zahara <\/strong>in 2005 and son <strong>Pax <\/strong>in 2007\u2014all three were subsequently adopted by Pitt\u2014while the couple had daughter <strong>Shiloh <\/strong>in 2006 and then twins <strong>Knox <\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1434214\/brad-pitt-angelina-jolies-daughter-vivienne-files-to-legally-change-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer\">Vivienne<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Brad Pitt, a few glasses of wine are back on the table.\u00a0\u00a0 The actor recently shared that, after remaining sober for seven years, he &#8220;got back off the wagon,&#8221; albeit &#8220;in a more restrained manner.&#8221; Meaning, Pitt explained to Esquire, he can have more than one glass of wine but not &#8220;a lot.&#8221; Rather,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260811\/c548f427-cc8c-4fc9-aaf8-1a5595bcb456_1786478081.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}