Christina Applegate Reveals Who She Ditched Brad Pitt for After Bringing Him as Her Date to the 1989 MTV VMAs
Christina Applegate Reveals Who She Ditched Brad Pitt for After Bringing Him as Her Date to the 1989 MTV VMAs
Benjamin VanHooseTue, March 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM UTC
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Brad Pitt and Christina Applegate at the 1989 MTV Video Music AwardsCredit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic -
Christina Applegate reveals which rock star she left the 1989 MTV VMAs with despite bringing Brad Pitt as her date
She previously was asked about the rumor on Watch What Happens Live in 2015 but wouldn't name the mystery man
In her new memoir, Applegate says Pitt was "very mad at me" afterward
Christina Applegate is reflecting on the time she left Brad Pitt in the lurch after bringing him as her date to an awards show.
In her new memoir You With the Sad Eyes, out now, the Dead to Me actress, 54, at one point recalls inviting Pitt to the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles after they'd already been "platonic pals for the longest time."
Applegate, who was 17 at the time and at the peak of her Married... with Children sitcom fame, wore a classy Ceil Chapman gown to the ceremony that made her feel so "incredible."
"In fact," she adds in the book, "I felt so powerful and sure of myself for once that when the awards show was over, I left with Sebastian Bach, not Brad Pitt."
The actress said she had been eyeing Skid Row frontman Bach, now 57, the whole night. She pointed out that Pitt, now 62, was "still making his way as an actor, and he wasn’t yet THE Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams." (The eventual Oscar winner's big break would come with a memorable role in 1991's Thelma & Louise.)
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Christina Applegate; Brad PittCredit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
Applegate, who is now married to musician Martyn LeNoble, 56, writes that Pitt "was left to sullenly drive" her mom and a friend home from the event after ditching him for the rock star.
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"Not surprisingly, [he] was subsequently very mad at me. We didn’t talk for many years after that," writes Applegate, adding, "Eventually, we agreed that I’d been a kid, and though he’d deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row."
Sebastian Bach at the 1989 MTV Video Music AwardsCredit: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
While on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen back in 2015, Applegate played "Plead the Fifth" and was asked about the rumor that she ditched Pitt at the award show.
Cohen asked Applegate who the other man was that she left Pitt for that night, to which she responded coyly, "How many fifths do I get? ... I have to say it? I don't have to do nothin'!" She confirmed the mystery man was famous but not an actor and that they didn't go on to date after that night. She also said she did not date Pitt after that.
Applegate's new book You With the Sad Eyes spans her childhood, past abusive relationships, motherhood, and her experiences with both breast cancer and MS.
"We all have come from somewhere, some places more painful than others, and it’s what you do with it, I guess," she told PEOPLE in a recent cover story. "This is not an inspirational book by any means. But it can inspire."
You With the Sad Eyes is out now wherever books are sold.
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