8/16/2009

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In an interview with Bill Maher, Pitt spoke about his pot-smoking past and what caused him to quit.

Danielle DeLeon

When promoting his new movie, "Inglourious Basterds," on ["Real Time with Bill Maher,"](http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/) [Brad Pitt](http://thecelebritycafe.com/bio/brad-pitt) admitted that he stopped smoking pot when he became a father.  
  
In the movie, "True Romance" (1993), Pitt played a pretty convincing stoner. It comes as no surprise then that Pitt has real life experience to back up his acting skills.  
  
Maher even mentioned a Hollywood party during which Pitt rolled "the most perfect joints" Maher had ever seen. To which Pitt jokingly replied, "I'm an artist."  
  
Pitt cited his children as the reason that he stopped smoking pot. In the [interview](http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/), Pitt explained, "I'm a dad now. You want to be alert and my eyes used to glaze over when I did that," reported the U.K.'s [Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1206718/Brad-Pitt-admits-stopped-smoking-pot-dad-roll-perfect-joints.html).  
  
Pitt has six children with partner Angelina Jolie: Maddox, 7, Pax, 5, Zahara, 4, Shiloh, 3, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 1.