Brad Pitt Reveals How AA Meetings Helped Him Through Difficult Divorce

Brad Pitt is opening up about healing and moving forward after a difficult chapter in his life. In recent appearances and interviews, the Oscar winner has shared candid reflections on his personal growth, sobriety journey, and the power of embracing life’s next chapter.

The actor took a candid look back on his sobriety journey — and what Alcoholics Anonymous has meant to him. The 61-year-old actor opened up during the June 23 episode of Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, sharing his experience of attending AA meetings — and how those sessions helped him rebuild his life.

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Brad Pitt on His Early Days in AA: “I Was Really Open”

The two actors also spoke about how they first met at an AA meeting, with Shepard recalling the “really heightened honesty and vulnerability” of the room.

Calling AA an “amazing thing,” Pitt reflected on how much the experience meant to him. “I just thought it was just incredible men sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches — and a lot of humor with it,” he said. “I thought it was a really special experience.”

Shepard asked if Pitt had felt “nervous” to talk publicly about AA after their meeting, but the actor replied he felt “quite at ease.”

Pitt admitted he was shy at first, but hitting a low point left him ready to open up and face it head-on. “I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open,” he told Shepard. “I was trying anything and everyone. Anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. I needed to wake the f— up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me.”

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“Not the Winner’s Club”: Pitt on Why AA Became a Lifeline

Pitt didn’t shy away from acknowledging his past missteps. “When I’ve stepped in s—, I’m pretty good at taking responsibility for it and owning up to it,” he said. “And now it’s a quest to, you know, ‘What do I do with this? How can I right this?’ And make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Eventually, AA meetings became “something I’d look forward to,” Pitt added. He approached therapy with the same openness: “When I jumped into therapy then, I was just like, ‘And I did this and I did that and da da da da,’” he said, calling it a “desperate” approach. Shepard agreed: “You don’t come into AA because everything’s working out fantastic.” “No. That’s usually not the entry point,” Pitt quipped.

“It’s not the winner’s club,” Shepard added. “Your hair has gotta be on fire before you go like, ‘Yeah, I’ll go hang with a bunch of dudes and talk about emotions.’”

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Brad Pitt on Life Lessons and Moving Forward

Pitt first opened up about his time in AA back in a 2019 profile for The New York Times. He had entered the program in 2016 following his split from Angelina Jolie.

“It was actually really freeing to just expose the ugly sides of yourself,” he told the outlet at the time. “There’s a great value in that.”

Most recently, at the F1 premiere in Mexico City on June 9, Pitt reflected on life, mistakes, and the importance of the people closest to him.

“No matter the mistake, you know, you just learn from it and move on,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “It’ll lead to the next success.”

He added: “Really, I think you get to my age and see how important it is to surround yourself with the people you know, the people you love, the people that love you back. Friends, family, and that’s it. From there, we get to go make things. It’s a pretty simple, I think, equation.”

Through honesty and accountability, Brad Pitt demonstrates that even the most challenging chapters can spark genuine change. His journey through sobriety and self-reflection shows it’s never too late to grow, rebuild, and move forward.

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