. The star spent a year and a half in Alcoholics Anonymous, a support system he now views as an essential part of his early recovery."You had all these men sitting aroundin 2019."It was this safe space where there was little judgment, and therefore little judgment of yourself… It was actually really freeing just to expose the ugly sides of yourself. There's great value in that," he said.
Pitt explained that throughout his early career, his addiction grew in response to his fame."In the '90s, all that attention really threw me," he told the newspaper."It was really uncomfortable for me, the cacophony of expectations and judgments. I really became a bit of a hermit and just bonged myself into oblivion."
As part of his recovery, the actor had to actively learn to quiet those internalized judgements, which anyone—not just celebrities—can experience."Those dubious thoughts, the mind chatter, the rat in the skull—that's comedy," he told."It's just ridiculous that we would beat ourselves up that way. It doesn't matter. I spent too much of life wrestling with those thoughts, or being tethered to those thoughts, or caged by those thoughts.
, it was like him trying to express his love for me in the only way he knew how," he said in 1988, in an interview for the bookIn 1996, the star nearly sabotaged his life and career with a string of three high profile arrests within the span of a month. In and out of rehab in the years that followed, he finally committed to sobriety in 2003.
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