Brad Pitt details first AA meeting after ‘difficult’ Angelina Jolie divorce

Once upon a time in Hollywood, Brad Pitt attended his first AA meeting.

The “F1” star broke down the “amazing” experience on Monday’s episode of the “Armchair Expert” podcast.

The actor, 61, recalled being “pretty much on [his] knees” and needing “to wake the f–k up in some areas.”

Pitt explained, “I was trying anything and everything, anything anyone threw at me. … It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting.”

While the Oscar winner did not specify when the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting took place, he previously told the New York Times that he went for a year and a half following his 2016 divorce from Angelina Jolie.

Host Dax Shepard praised Pitt on Monday for being “so f–king honest” at the time.

Pitt admitted that while it felt daunting as his turn was “coming around” the circle, he felt inspired after watching “everyone [being] so open.”

He remembered, “It gives you permission to go, ‘OK, I’m gonna step out on this edge and see what happens.’ And then I really grew to love it.”

The Golden Globe winner noted that witnessing Shepard’s own honesty “meant a lot to” him.

“Dax was usually near the end because he’s been there awhile,” Pitt said, comparing the former “Punk’d” prankster, 50, to “an elder statesman” who injected “humor” into his wisdom.

He called the meeting “a really special experience coming from the Ozarks” where he grew up hearing men insist that “everything is great.”

Pitt gushed, “I just thought it was incredible, men sharing their experiences with their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches and a lot of humor with it.”

When the “Fight Club” star first went public with his AA attendance — and subsequently “got admonished by a higher up” — he said it was “freeing” to “expose the ugly sides of” himself.

“I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” Pitt added during the 2019 interview.

His drinking problem is said to have contributed to the downfall of his and Jolie’s marriage, which ended after a 2016 plane incident.

Jolie, 50, claimed in court documents that her then-husband physically harmed her and one of their six kids — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16.

The “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” co-stars were declared legally single in 2019 and settled their divorce last year.

Pitt, who has moved on with girlfriend Ines de Ramon, is currently estranged from his eldest children despite “several efforts to reconnect” but does see Knox and Vivienne “periodically,” according to Us Weekly.

Vivienne, notably, ditched her dad’s last name in the 2024 “Outsiders” playbill, with Zahara doing the same in her sorority introduction and Shiloh even recently taking legal action to drop the surname.