Brad Pitt says he is drinking again, but only in what he calls a “more restrained manner,” a change from the seven sober years he kept before this point. The 62-year-old actor made the remark in a profile that also found him in his Los Angeles kitchen, cutting cheese and salami himself while his two doodles, Sundae and Vandy, moved through the room.
That detail is what makes the change land now: not a headline about excess, but a famous man describing a shift in the smallest possible terms. He lives in Los Angeles, bought the home there last fall, and has spent a total of three sporadic weeks in it, so the setting is as much a part of the story as the sentence about drinking.
Brad Pitt’s own words keep the profile from reading like a simple lifestyle note. “Guests get the view, that’s the rule,” he said, describing how the house works for visitors. He also said, “You’ll get mildly molested for a couple of minutes, then they’ll leave you alone,” a line that captures the odd mix of charm and distance around him. The kitchen scene, meanwhile, turns domestic in a hurry: “I was cutting one of these up last week and I walked away for a minute. Came back? Gone. The whole sausage,” he said of one of the dogs.
Then comes the sharper edge. He said, “But I gave this one a breath mint after, which she needed, and right away there was just, like, trails of vomit.” It is the sort of unscripted detail that sits awkwardly beside the careful phrasing about drinking. Pitt is not presenting a comeback, a relapse or a public break; he is drawing a line around the behavior himself, and keeping it narrow.
The profile, published by Esquire, leaves one thing unresolved: what led him to stop being sober after seven years. For now, the only update is the one he gave directly — that he drinks, but in a more restrained manner — and that is the version he is asking readers to take at face value.
