Christina Applegate Says She Ditched Brad Pitt
Christina Applegate has shared a striking early-Hollywood anecdote from her new memoir, recalling how she invited a young Brad Pitt to accompany her to the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards—then left him behind after becoming fixated on Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach. The story lands amid wider revelations about Applegate’s rise to fame on “Married… With Children” and the pressures she says shaped her self-image during that era.
Applegate writes that she attended the 1989 VMAs as a presenter and brought Pitt—then 26 and part of her circle of friends—before spending the night focused on Bach, Page Six reported.
In the book, Applegate says Pitt ended up driving her mother home and was furious afterward, adding that they didn’t speak for years. She also claims that much later, two of Pitt’s movie-star girlfriends separately asked her if she was the person who left him at the awards, and she ultimately concluded they had been “kids” and it was time to forgive her younger self.
Applegate’s memoir also revisits her “Married… With Children” years, including her admission that she initially “hated” the role of Kelly Bundy and later pushed for the character’s more overt rock-and-roll look. The actress has previously shown how music culture intersected with her life, including a tribute she shared for Scott Weiland that underscored her connection to the alternative-rock world.
Beyond the celebrity name-drops, Applegate describes harsh body-image struggles, intense exercise routines, and periods of self-criticism even as she became a household name. The memoir frames the VMA story as one moment inside a broader account of the personal costs she says came with youth, fame, and the expectations surrounding her public persona.
