Brad Pitt opened up about going to Alcoholics Anonymous following his split from Angelina Jolie during the Monday episode of Dax Shepard's "Armchair Expert" podcast.
Pitt, 61, called AA an "amazing thing," and said, "I just thought it was just incredible men sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches, and a lot of humor with it. I thought it was a really special experience."
Shepard, 50, noted that he and Pitt met in AA, and asked if the "Fight Club" actor was "nervous" to speak about it publicly on his podcast.
Pitt said he was "quite at ease." However, he was "shy" about attending his first AA meeting.
"I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open," Pitt revealed.
"I was trying anything and everyone. Anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. I needed to wake the f -- up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me," the "Thelma & Louise" actor added. "When I've stepped in s-t, I'm pretty good at taking responsibility for it and owning up to it. And now it's a quest to, you know, 'What do I do with this? How can I right this?' And make sure it doesn't happen again."
He added that AA meetings eventually became "something I'd look forward to" and said that he approaches therapy in the same way.
"When I jumped into therapy then, I was just like, 'And I did this and I did that and da da da da," the "Troy" star added, calling himself "desperate."
Pitt and Jolie, 50, had a drawn out, acrimonious divorce that got finalized in December after a turbulent eight-year legal battle.
The former spouses first met on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in 2005, when Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston, 56. They got married in 2014.
Two years later, Jolie filed for divorce from the "F1" actor following an alleged altercation on a plane with their six children present.
Pitt was investigated after the alleged incident and wasn't charged by authorities.
The exes have three biological children, Shiloh, 19, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, and three adopted children, Maddox, 23; Pax, 21; and Zahara, 20.
In an interview with GQ published in May, Pitt said about his divorce, "I don't think it was that major of a thing. Just something coming to fruition. Legally."
Pitt, who is currently dating Ines de Ramon, 32, told GQ that he's used to "some version" of his personal life being in the news for over 30 years.
"It's been an annoyance I've had to always deal with in different degrees, large and small, as I do the things I really want to do," Pitt said. "So it's always been this kind of nagging time suck or waste of time if you let it be that; I don't know. I don't know."