GOING ON THE BRAD WAGON
Pitt quits boozing after breakup
Six months after his split with Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt has sworn off liquor — and he’s vowing to stop being so emotionally “retarded.”
“I was boozing too much,” Pitt says in a candid new interview for GQ Style.
“It’s just become a problem,” he admits in an interview in the Los Angeles compound he once shared with Jolie and their six kids.
“Truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka,” he jokes.
“Don’t want to live that way anymore.”
Somber and sober, Pitt, 53, opens up about starting therapy — “I went through two therapists to get to the right one” — taking up clay sculpture and battling his own emotional “retardation.”
“I’m personally very retarded when it comes to taking inventory of my emotions,” he concedes.
“I’m much better at covering up. I grew up with a father-knowsbest/war mentality — the father is all-powerful, super strong — instead of really knowing the man and his own self-doubt and struggles,” he said.
“And it’s hit me smack in the face with our divorce: I gotta be more. I gotta be more for them. I have to show them,” he said of the kids.
“I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings,” he says.
“And now I have no time left for that.”
Speaking extensively for the first time about having his family “ripped apart,” Pitt says he’s now working amicably with Jolie (inset) on a kid-visitation schedule.
“I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called,” on what turned out to be an unfounded abuse report, Pitt now tells GQ.
“And you know, after that, we’ve been able to work together to sort this out,” he says, adding graciously, “We’re both doing our best.”
He won’t let things get ugly in court, he promises — for the sake of the kids. “I just refuse,” he says.
“And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It’s just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.”
Pitt also reveals he has switched from hard liquor to homebrewed matcha green tea, which he whisks into a froth with a bamboo brush.
That, and cranberry-fizzy-water spritzers: “I’ve got the cleanest urinary tract in all of LA, I guarantee you!” Pitt jokes.
Prior to all this self-rehabbing, Pitt did become “a little paranoid” soon after splitting with Jolie.
A “surveillance van” pulled up while he was sleeping on the floor of a friend — LA-based director David Fincher, who’ll start filming Pitt next year in the sequel to “World War Z.”
“It was something more than TMZ, because they got into my friend’s computer,” he says, offering no inkling of who “they” might be. litaliano@nypost.com