Why Did Brad Pitt Leave Alcoholics Anonymous?

Maybe it’s the same reason a lot of us do

By all accounts, Brad Pitt is closing in on 7 years of sobriety. Like most megastars who struggle with alcohol use — such as his peers Ben Affleck and Bradley Cooper — Pitt’s struggle became public knowledge.

This happened shortly after his wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce in 2016. Pitt and Jolie share 6 children, and with Angelina being an A-list star in her own right, this story had TMZ and other tabloid media outlets salivating.

To set the record straight, Pitt did an interview for GQ Magazine in 2022 and talked about his year and a half of time spent in Alcoholics Anonymous.

“I had a really cool men’s group here that was really private and selective, so it was safe,” he told GQ. “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.”

I have since read many articles about Pitt and his sobriety, many of which mention his praise of AA. Most of them quote the GQ interview, and quite a few articles come from treatment centers that use AA and the 12 Steps as their foundation. They imply that “AA is good enough for Brad…