Christina Applegate has claimed that Brad Pitt 'didn’t talk' to her 'for many years' because she ditched him for a rockstar.
The Dead To Me actor, who provided a recent update on her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis, has opened up about the height of her Married… With Children fame in her new memoir You with the Sad Eyes.
Due to present the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989, the then-17-year-old said she decided to invite Pitt out on a date.
Despite starting off as a platonic friendship, 'one day I took another look at Brad and thought, hmm... Apparently, he did the same'.
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She said he was 'kind enough' to drive to her house and take her mother, actress Nancy Priddy, and best friend Lori Allison, who was married to Johnny Depp, to the awards.
At the event, however, Applegate said she couldn't take her eyes off 'long‐haired hunk' and frontman of mortal band Skid Row Sebastian Bach.
“I hate to put it like this, but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn’t yet THE Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams,” she explained.
“Brad was left to sullenly drive my mom… home.
“Apparently, at a gas station on the way, Brad almost got into a fight with a bunch of gang members, and, not surprisingly, was subsequently very mad at me.”
To make things even worse, she soon realised that Bach had a long-term partner and a one-year-old kid.
“Much later… two of [Pitt’s] movie star girlfriends asked me if it was true that I was the girl who left Brad behind at the MTV Video Music Awards,” Applegate continued.
“Brad had apparently told both of them separately that he was still mad at me.
“Eventually, we agreed that I’d been a kid, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row.”
She joked: “Of course, Brad is now THE Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach… well, he still has long hair, I guess.”
In a column for the Guardian, Applegate shared an update on her Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, affecting the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.
"One of the worst side-effects of the illness is the exhaustion. It feels as though I’ve been on a three‑day sleepless bender – and that’s how I feel after a good night’s sleep," the now-54-year-old wrote.
"Hence all the time I spend on and in bed, snuggled up against my heating pad.
"When your physical situation deteriorates, and your life shrinks to the size of a king-sized bed, suddenly all the things you thought were important shift, too. The truth clarifies, like a camera lens slowly focusing."
Topics: Celebrity, Brad Pitt, Christina Applegate
Anish Vij