Actor Brad Pitt’s return to drinking is not unsafe, experts say, but it’s not for everyone

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American actor Brad Pitt (right) said in an interview with Esquire that he is drinking “in a more restrained manner”.

American actor Brad Pitt (right) said in an interview with Esquire that he is drinking “in a more restrained manner”.

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Mark Walker

NEW YORK – Brad Pitt went seven years without a drink. Then he started again – carefully, he said, and on his own terms.

The American actor mentioned it almost in passing in an Esquire interview published in August: Pitt had gotten “back off the wagon” and now drinks “in a more restrained manner”. Never in large quantities, he insisted. He had been overconfident a couple of times and pulled back.

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