These days, Brad Pitt is just as famous -- if not more so -- for being a doting dad/partner as he is for being an actor. But had he continued down the path he was on 10 years ago, he might never have become the man he is now. In fact, he might have become nothing at all.
Reflecting on his life in the June/July issue of Esquire magazine, the World War Z actor, 49, says there was a time in the not-so-distant past when he was afraid his history of hard living and drug use had ruined him for good. "For a long time I thought I did too much damage -- drug damage," he tells the mag. "I was a bit of a drifter. A guy who felt he grew up in something of a vacuum and wanted to see things, wanted to be inspired.