Brad Pitt has been open about his health to the public. From his low-grade depression to his alcoholic addiction to his recent revelation of his self-diagnosed prosopagnosia or "face blindness," Angelina Jolie's former husband bravely tells it all.
Brad Pitt opens up to the August issue of GQ magazine to talk about prosopagnosia. Though many don't believe that he has this condition, he wants to prove it's real.
According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, prosopagnosia is a neurological disorder. It's identified by someone's inability to recognize faces; thus, it's also known as face blindness or facial agnosia.
Wonderwall added the condition had something to do with some problems with the part of the brain that controls facial recognition and memory. Hence, people who have it routinely find it hard to recognize someone's face.
In an interview with GQ, the 58-year-old actor said nobody believed he had it. However, he couldn't deny that he felt ashamed when he couldn't identify people in social settings.
With that said, Brad Pitt wanted to meet a person with the same disorder. With his struggle to remember new people and recognize their faces, the actor feared that it left him with a wrong impression. Some might even think he's "remote, aloof, inaccessible and self-absorbed."
Though the "Ad Astra" star is yet to be officially diagnosed with the disease, he had already discussed the same issue in the past, telling Esquire in 2013 that he was worried about it.
At the time, he said people hated him, thinking he was disrespecting them, not knowing he couldn't recognize their faces. "That's why I stay at home," he added.
Brad Pitt also told GQ that he had had low-grade depression for years. Despite that, he's able to "catch those moments of joy" by coming into terms with it, trying to embrace all the bad and beautiful sides of himself.
Jennifer Aniston's ex also touched on the issue of his alcohol addiction in the past, using alcohol as a coping mechanism before focusing on his sobriety. He was part of the "private and selective" group Alcoholic Anonymous that was making him feel safe after seeing things of other people being recorded while revealing things that he found appalling.
Before Brad Pitt finally got sober, he also had sobriety struggles. He told The New York Times in 2019 that he removed his drinking privileges after feeling the "pain, grief and loss" following his split from Angelina Jolie in 2016 and took things "as far as he could take it."
