Brad Pitt started drinking again after seven years of sobriety, the actor revealed in a new magazine interview published on Monday, 10 August 2026, saying he now sticks to a few glasses of wine.
The admission landed inside a wide-ranging cover interview, as reported by Page Six, and the actor did not dress it up for anyone. He gave no date for when the streak ended, and he named nothing in particular as the reason for picking up a glass again.
Those seven years were well documented. Pitt stopped drinking in 2016, after his marriage to Angelina Jolie fell apart, and spoke openly at the time about leaning on a men’s support group while he worked through it.
Pitt and Jolie’s divorce dragged on for years, with the custody fight and a long-running dispute over their French winery keeping the pair in court well past the split itself.
His sobriety ran alongside most of it.
Why Brad Pitt started drinking again
Asked about the seven-year run, Pitt said with a little laugh:
“I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon.”
He qualified the admission almost immediately, adding, “In a more restrained manner.” The phrasing did the heavy lifting, separating a full return to old habits from the version he described, which he framed as controlled and deliberately small.
Getting to that point took a couple of misfires. Pitt said he had been “overconfident a couple times” before he worked out where his own limit sat, which was a fairly unglamorous way to put learning the hard way.
Where the drinking sits now
The ceiling he settled on was modest. Pitt said heavy drinking was “not good for me. Not in big quantities,” and explained that he could now “have a few” glasses of wine without the evening turning into something else entirely.
Landing on moderation after seven years at zero was a notable move for a man who had made the sober years part of his public story.
He drew the line at volume rather than at alcohol itself.
What Brad Pitt said about a darker period
The same interview touched on a rough stretch in his past.
Pitt said he had felt “suicidal” at one point while dealing with what he called “family stuff,” describing a period he has since moved through rather than anything current.
Nothing in the conversation suggested a second run at total sobriety was on the cards.
Pitt left the story where he found it, with seven dry years behind him, a firm cap on the glass in front of him, and no plans announced either way.
