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In 2016, Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after alleging that he engaged in violent and abusive behavior while he was drunk aboard a private jet.

Pitt quit drinking shortly thereafter. The effort came too late to save his marriage, but in interviews that touched on the matter, the Oscar winner was adamant that he was grateful to be sober.

So Pitt’s revelation that he’s now “off the wagon” after seven years of sobriety has come as a shock to many fans.

In a profile published by Esquire today, interviewer Ryan D’Agostino notes that Pitt offered him wine and then asks the actor-pp if he keeps a bottle on hand for the benefit of his guests.

“No, I got — I was sober for seven years. And then I got back off the wagon,” Brad clarifies with a “little laugh,” adding:

“In a more restrained manner. I got overconfident a couple times, went, Yep, nope, not good for me. Not in big quantities.”

“You can have a glass of wine,” D’Agostino ventures, leading Pitt to remark:

“Yeah. Well . . . I can have a few. But I can’t have a lot. I have to be professional about it.”

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The revelation comes as a surprise, as Pitt publicly thanked Bradley Cooper for helping him get sober while speaking at a 2020 award ceremony.

And he opened up about the joys of a booze-free existence as recently as June of 2025, when he discussed his sobriety journey on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast.

News of his relapse (or whatever you wish to call it) comes on the heels of reports that all of Brad’s kids have legally dropped “Pitt” from their names.

Brad and Angelina’s divorce has been one of the messiest in Hollywood history, with insiders claiming that Pitt blames Jolie for “alienating” his children from him.

At one point in the Esquire interview, Pitt referred to a period in which he felt such intense pain that he could imagine viewing death as a relief.

Whet D’Agostino asked if he was referring to the situation with his children, Pitt demurred, saying:

“Family stuff. We could leave it at that.”

“This s–t ain’t easy,” Pitt added, noting that in most areas of his life, he’s “won the lottery.”

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Brad Pitt Reveals That He’s Drinking Again After 7 Years of Sobriety was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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You’ll want to listen to Britney Spears.

We don’t just mean her music, to which most of us have been regularly listening for the past three decades, give or take.

She has some eye-opening medical advice based upon her own harrowing experience.

“You can’t trust anyone,” she warns her fans after describing prolonged symptoms that caused one eye to droop.

‘It’s just now starting to raise up and be normal again’

On Friday, August 7, Britney took to her Instagram page to share a warning with her followers.

She urged fans to “be careful with your bodies.”

Britney illustrated her own droopy eye — a symptom that has only just now abated, following about a month.

According to the pop superstar, a doctor had “put so much Botox in this left eye that it drooped down like that.”

She then illustrated her meaning, as you can see in the video.

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“And it’s just now starting to raise up and be normal again,” Britney revealed after weeks of the same symptom.

Though she voluntarily shared this with the public, she admitted that the whole experience felt “so embarrassing.”

She went on to caution her fans against repeating her mistake.

“Girls, you have to be careful if you do Botox,” Britney warned.

“These people and these doctors,” she explained, “they can really f–k your eyes up.”

‘You can’t trust anyone!’

Britney specified that her eye was droopy for a period of about “four weeks’ or so.

“Be careful with these people,” she urged.

“They try to change, like, your face and try to, like, f–k things up,” Britney added.

With rare exceptions, anyone doing cosmetic work is likely hoping for a positive result.

That does not mean that they will always get one. Accidents happen, from faulty products to user error to allergies and beyond.

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“Be careful with your bodies,” Britney encouraged her fans.

“Because it’s yours,” she pointed out, “and you own it. So, that’s it.”

Britney has made other body-positive statements recently, including in the (above) Instagram post, where her caption mentioned that the photo was not worth what she put herself through to look like that.

On the topic of cosmetic work, she again cautioned: “You can’t trust anyone!!!”

Wise words.

Britney Spears Warns Fans After Weeks of Alarming ‘Droopy’ Eye: ‘You … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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