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He admitted his drinking had contributed to his troubles at home. "I had taken things as far as I could take it, so I removed my drinking privilege," he told The New York Times.

He later credited his long-sober friend Bradley Cooper with helping him quit: "Every day's been happier ever since."

Spending time in a men's Alcoholics Anonymous group, Pitt began to turn his life around by focusing on his health and his kids, who have spent increasing time with him in L. A.

"Things are going much more smoothly, and he is infinitely happier," says a long time colleague. He returned to acting last year in Once Upon A Time and the space thriller AdAstra.

"He works out, he eats healthy and attends therapy," says a source. "The divorce was a huge wake-up call to him. The current Brad is a much better person than the Brad a few years ago."

Adds a Hollywood insider:"He went through a lot of self-examination, and he came out the other side. He's more at peace." After nearly 30 years of stardom, he has most of Hollywood cheering him on.

(At the Vanity Fair Oscar after party, the room broke into applause when he arrived. ) Raised in Springfield, Mo. , by his parents, William, the owner of a trucking company,

and Jane, a school counselor, Pitt studied journalism at the University of Missouri. But two weeks before graduation he decided to head to L. A.

"I didn't graduate. All I had to do was hand in a term paper, but in my head I was done. I was going west,"he said. After guest roles on TV shows such as Dallas and Growing Pains,

Pitt's life changed forever when he was casting Thelma and Louise in a scene-stealing, six-pack-revealing role as a hitch-hiker who has a fling with Geena Davis.

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