Brad Pitt (pic) is extolling the virtues of Alcoholics Anonymous and how it helped him during his contentious divorce from Angelina Jolie.

The Oscar winner appeared on the June 23 episode of Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, when the two actors opened up about bonding in an AA meeting.

“I just thought it was just incredible men sharing their experiences, their foibles, their missteps, their wants, their aches, and a lot of humour with it,” Pitt said. “I thought it was a really special experience.”

Pitt, promoting his new action film F1, admitted to being “shy” coming into the meetings in the aftermath of splitting with Jolie, with whom he shares six children.

“I was pretty much on my knees, and I was really open,” the 61-year-old self-described “stubborn (expletive)” told Shepard.

“I was trying anything and everyone. Anything anyone threw at me. It was a difficult time. I needed rebooting. I needed to wake the (expletive) up in some areas. And it just meant a lot to me.”

Pitt previously revealed that he entered the programme in 2016 after Jolie first filed for divorce.

“It was actually really freeing to just expose the ugly sides of yourself,” he told the New York Times in 2019. “There’s a great value in that.”

In December, the estranged couple reached a divorce settlement after eight years. –  New York Daily News/Tribune News Service