Brad Pitt says he is drinking again after seven years of sobriety

Brad Pitt told Esquire, published 10 August 2026, "I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon." The 62-year-old described drinking "in a more restrained manner" — a few glasses of wine. Pitt spent eighteen months in Alcoholics Anonymous and thanked Bradley Cooper for helping him get sober at the National Board of Review gala in January 2020.