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- Jan 26, 2012
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“Watch what you say bucko!” — Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the 2012 Golden Globes
It’s no secret Brad Pitt was once a fan of the ol’ wacky tobacky, but it was never really known to what extent, until now.
The Moneyball star recently sat down for an interview with the Hollywood Reporter and opened up about his past issues with depression and how he tried to self-medicate with pot…and LOTS of it.
“I got really sick of myself at the end of the 1990s,” he told the interviewer. “I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut and I really got irritated with myself.”
Pitt says it got so bad that every night he found himself smokin’ the green stuff just to ‘numb’ himself to sleep. He says he got to a point where he asked himself “What’s the point?”, saying he knew he needed to stop.
He explains, “I used to deal with depression, but I don’t now, not this decade — maybe last decade. But that’s also figuring out who you are. I see it as a great education, as one of the seasons or a semester: ‘This semester I was majoring in depression.’”
After being asked what exactly brought him out of the habit, he says it was a trip to Morocco where he says he saw “poverty to an extreme” that he had never seen before. He says, “We talked about inequality and health care, and I saw just what I felt was so unnecessary, that people should have to survive in these circumstances — and the children were inflicted with a lot of deformities, and things that could have been avoided had become their sentence. It stuck with me.”
After that Pitt says he “just quit”, adding, “I stopped grass then — I mean, pretty much — and decided to get off the couch.”
Ha…I like how he admits he “pretty much” stopped. So basically he is not glued to his couch smoking weed at all times, but occasionally he partakes in it. That’s cool, at least he admits it.
As for the depression part of the conversation, it’s interesting that he talks about the fact that he was in a rut right around the time he and Jennifer Aniston hooked up, but he makes it a point to say “not this decade”…as in “not with Angelina Jolie”. It’s like he better watch what he says or else…
[Photo credit: Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com]
