Before Brad Pitt became the Hollywood icon we know today, a teenage Christina Applegate left him at the MTV Awards for rocker Sebastian Bach. Her memoir hilariously recounts the heartbreak.
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Hollywood has plenty of “oops” moments, but Christina Applegate just shared one that might be the ultimate teenage misstep. In her newly released memoir, ‘You With the Sad Eyes’, the 54-year-old ‘Dead to Me’ star recalls the infamous night she ditched a young Brad Pitt at the MTV Video Music Awards, and instantly regretted it.
It was 1989, and Applegate, only 17, was at the peak of teen stardom thanks to her breakout role as Kelly Bundy in ‘Married… With Children’. Young, ambitious, and Hollywood-famous, she invited Brad Pitt, whom she describes as a long-time “platonic pal”, to be her date to the awards show in Los Angeles.
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She says she’d had a sudden revelation: maybe Pitt could be boyfriend material. “He felt the same,” she writes, “and agreed to go with me.”
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But even Hollywood dreams can be messy. Despite having Pitt at her side, Applegate’s attention wandered… to Sebastian Bach, the long-haired lead singer of Skid Row. “I had spent all night staring at Bach,” she admits. She didn’t see Pitt as “THE Brad Pitt” just yet, just another young actor trying to make it.
Feeling “powerful and sure of myself” in her stunning Ceil Chapman gown, Applegate made a choice she would soon regret. After the awards show, she left with Bach, and left Pitt behind.
“And it gets worse: Brad was left to sullenly drive my mom home,” she added. As if that wasn’t enough, the evening went downhill fast: Pitt almost got into a fight with some gang members, leaving him understandably furious.
The fallout was swift. At an afterparty, Applegate learned that Bach was already taken, married and even a father. “What a d**k” she wrote. Meanwhile, Pitt didn’t speak to her for years. He even vented about the nightmarish date to “two of his movie star girlfriends,” who later confronted Applegate, asking if she was ‘the girl who left Brad behind at the MTV Video Music Awards’.
Eventually, adulthood brought perspective. Applegate writes that she and Pitt made peace. “We agreed that I’d been a kid, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row,” she recalls. Now, of course, Pitt is THE Brad Pitt, while Bach… well, he still rocks the long hair.
As for Applegate, love eventually found her. She married actor Johnathon Schaech in 2001, though they split in 2007. In 2013, she wed musician Martyn LeNoble, with whom she shares daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble, born in 2011.
Brad Pitt’s romantic life took its own twists. He married Jennifer Aniston in 2000; they divorced in 2005. Later, he married Angelina Jolie in 2014, with the couple splitting in 2019. Today, the Hollywood actor is dating jewelry executive Ines de Ramon, a relationship that started in late 2022.
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