Brad Pitt Spent Decade Smoking Pot: Which '90s Star Was the Biggest Screwup?
SLIDESHOW: Which 90s Star Was the Biggest Screwup?
Brad Pitt
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Brad Pitt
"I got really sick of myself at the end of the 1990s … I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut," Pitt tells The Hollywood Reporter.
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Courtney Love
Kurt Cobain's wife was a screw-up before, during and after the '90s, but she says she quit heroin when she learned she was pregnant. Her music and film career more or less fizzled out with the new millennium.
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Milli Vanilli
The pop/dance music duo (Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus) won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990 -- but it was revoked when it emerged that the Morvan and Pilatus didn't sing on their records.
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Pee-wee Herman
In 1991, Pee-wee (Paul Reubens) was busted in Sarasota, Fla., for masturbating publicly in an adult theater. CBS stopped airing the kids' show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," and Toys "R" Us stopped selling Pee-wee toys.
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Winona Ryder
Ryder was the queen of Generation X … until her arrest for stealing $5,500 worth of clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue in 2001.
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George Michael
In 1998, the pop megastar was arrested for "engaging in a lewd act" in a public toilet in Beverly Hills.
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Kurt Cobain
In the saddest example on our list, depressed heroin addict Kurt Cobain was arguably the biggest rock star in the world when he committed suicide in 1994 at age 27.
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"I got really sick of myself at the end of the 1990s: I was hiding out from the celebrity thing; I was smoking way too much dope; I was sitting on the couch and just turning into a doughnut; and I really got irritated with myself," the 48-year-old actor tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I got to: 'What's the point? I know better than this.'"
After a life-changing trip to Casablanca, Morocco, in the mid-to-late 1990s, "where I saw poverty to an extreme I had never witnessed before," Pitt quit smoking weed. "I just quit. I stopped grass then -- I mean, pretty much -- and decided to get off the couch," he tells the magazine.
Today, the father of six is happily committed to his partner of seven years, Angelina Jolie, and -- stop the presses -- he may even marry her. "It seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."
More big news: Pitt and Jolie may even decide to add to their sizable family. "We haven't closed the book on it. There's a really nice balance in the house right now, but if we see the need and get that lightning bolt that says, 'We can help this person; we could do something here,' then absolutely," he says.
Pitt may be clean and sober now, but his stoner past got us wondering: From Pitt to Courtney Love to Winona Ryder, which '90s star screwed up the most?
Top Opinion
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carlton999 2012/01/26 21:28:19
Lol and as far as Kurt being a screw up, the guy accomplished way more in a year than any of us can even dream of. Yea he might be dead but he is still remembered 20 years after his death. Haters gotta hate though.
Poor Kurt.
But that does not negate the fact that her notoriety comes from us, the public, who choose to vilify or idolize her... give her any attention at all. Just like Amy Whinehouse.
She is responsible for the choices she's made. But we, the public, contributed a great deal to her insanity.
also, suicide is a serious issue, not something you can just say, "well he messed up" to. sorry, i take suicide very seriously...
like i said, im very serious about suicide. because i have been there before. i know how it feels
Man! I never had to chance to truly experience his music before they got to him and it kills me.
It's too bad he made such poor choices that he ended up gone so young. But many greats end up dead before we, their public, would have liked them to.
I always liked Tupac's music... still do.