Brad Pitt is drinking again. As a fellow alcoholic, I think he’s making a mistake

By Dmitry Samoilov, сolumnist, journalist, literary critic.Brad Pitt has started drinking again and this really is cause for celebration among millions of ordinary people around the world, because after all, what brings us closer to the great and famous, but our vices?I have often heard people who enjoy a glass of cognac in the morning point out that Winston Churchill used to do much the same, but when asked in what other respects they resemble the First Lord of the Admiralty, twice British prime minister, and Nobel Prize winner, they usually have less to say. And now, if Brad Pitt has started drinking again, perhaps he has become a little closer to us ordinary people, or perhaps we have become closer to him.But if Pitt has started drinking again, there must have been a reason he stopped, given in 2019, Pitt spoke openly about giving up alcohol. “I’d taken it as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privileges,” he said, and by then, he had been sober for about three years. The decision followed the notorious 2016 confrontation aboard a private jet carrying Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and their children from Europe to the United States. Just look at the problems stars have – e...