Brad Pitt is embracing life. The Hollywood star’s entire life has always been sensationalized and scrutinized by the public – from his high-profile marriages to messy divorces. The actor who won an Oscar for his performance in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood‘ recently talked about his struggles.
In his new interview with GQ, Pitt spoke about everything – from recently quitting cigarettes to discovering things about himself. The interaction also included his experience of spending years in depression.
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Brad Pitt On Suffering From Depression: “Always Felt Very Lonely”
Brad Pitt recalled his depressed years as a child and as an adult: “I always felt very alone in my life. Alone growing up as a kid, alone even out here [in Los Angeles], and it’s really not till recently that I have had a greater embrace of my friends and family. What’s that line, it was either Rilke or Einstein, believe it or not, but it was something about when you can walk with the paradox, when you carry real pain and real joy simultaneously, this is maturity, this is growth.”
He went on to describe things that bring him joy and how feelings of happiness didn’t enter his life until recently. “Music fills me with so much joy,” the ‘Mr. & Mrs Smith‘ star shared. “I think joy’s been a newer discovery, later in life. I was always moving with the currents, drifting in a way, and onto the next. I think I spent years with low-grade depression, and it’s not until coming to terms with that, trying to embrace all sides of self—the beauty and the ugly—that I’ve been able to catch those moments of joy.”
Pitt also explained that it took him time to find out who he really is. “Out here in California, there’s a lot of talk about ‘being your authentic self. It would plague me, what does ‘authentic’ mean? [For me] it was getting to a place of acknowledging those deep scars that we carry,” he said.
Pitt Had A Support System After His Divorce From Angelina Jolie
The actor is on a path to self-discovery. He is more focused on making the next chapter of his life meaningful. “I consider myself on my last leg,” he said and added that he thinks hard about how he wants to spend “this last semester or trimester. What is this section gonna be? And how do I wanna design that?”
Pitt also made a major health change, quitting cigarettes. “I don’t have that ability to do just one or two a day,” he explained. “It’s not in my makeup. I’m all in. And I’m going to drive into the ground. I’ve lost my privileges.”
The ‘Bullet Train’ star got sober after his ex-wife Angelina Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. He then spent over a year in Alcoholics Anonymous. Pitt accepted that he feels lucky to have had such a strong support system during that period.
“I had a really cool men’s group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe. Because I’d seen things of other people who had been recorded while they were spilling their guts, and that’s just atrocious to me,” he concluded.
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