{"id":226195,"date":"2026-03-03T15:47:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/christina-applegate-says-she-left-brad-pitt-at-mtv-vmas-for-this-rocker\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:47:55","slug":"christina-applegate-says-she-left-brad-pitt-at-mtv-vmas-for-this-rocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/christina-applegate-says-she-left-brad-pitt-at-mtv-vmas-for-this-rocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Applegate Says She Left Brad Pitt at MTV VMAs for This Rocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/christina-applegate\/\" title=\"Christina Applegate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Christina Applegate<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about the time she went out with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/brad-pitt\/\" title=\"Brad Pitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong><\/a> and left him behind.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old <em>Married\u2026With Children<\/em> actress got candid in her new memoir <em>You with the Sad Eyes<\/em>, out Tuesday (March 3).<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2185912\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the book, <strong>Christina<\/strong> reveals that she was asked to present at the 1989 MTV VMAs when she was 17, and invited the then 26-year-old A-list actor to come along with her crew, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/johnny-depp\/\" title=\"Johnny Depp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Johnny Depp<\/strong><\/a>, who said she was \u201cin love with for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it was actually <strong>Skid Row<\/strong> rocker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/sebastian-bach\/\" title=\"Sebastian Bach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sebastian Bach<\/strong><\/a> who got her attention that night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had spent all night staring at<strong> Bach<\/strong>, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting the band <strong>Skid Row<\/strong>,\u201d she writes, via <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/03\/celebrity-news\/christina-applegate-dumped-brad-pitt-for-80s-rocker-memoir\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/03\/03\/celebrity-news\/christina-applegate-dumped-brad-pitt-for-80s-rocker-memoir\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1.1em\">Sebastian Bach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hate to put it like this, but<strong> Brad <\/strong>back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn\u2019t yet THE <strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong>, the man of so many people\u2019s dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it gets worse: <strong>Brad <\/strong>was left to sullenly drive my mom \u2026 home. Apparently, at a gas station on the way, <strong>Brad<\/strong> almost got into a fight with a bunch of gang members, and, not surprisingly, was subsequently very mad at me,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Later on, she found out <strong>Sebastian<\/strong> was already dating someone and had a kid, while<strong> Brad <\/strong>\u201cdidn\u2019t talk\u201d to her \u201cfor many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch later \u2026 two of [<strong>Pitt<\/strong>\u2019s] movie star girlfriends asked me if it was true that I was the girl who left<strong> Brad <\/strong>behind at the MTV Video Music Awards. <strong>Brad <\/strong>had apparently told both of them separately that he was still mad at me,\u201d she noted in the book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEventually, we agreed that I\u2019d been a kid, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of <strong>Skid Row<\/strong>,\u201d <strong>Christina<\/strong> wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, <strong>Brad<\/strong> is now THE <strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong>, and <strong>Sebastian Bach<\/strong> \u2026 well, he still has long hair, I guess,\u201d she amusingly went on to say.<\/p>\n<p>She also shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/02\/24\/christina-applegate-reveals-she-spends-most-of-her-days-in-bed-now-due-to-painful-ms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upsetting update amid her battle with MS.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/03\/christina-applegate-says-she-left-brad-pitt-at-mtv-vmas-for-this-rocker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Applegate is opening up about the time she went out with Brad Pitt and left him behind. The 54-year-old Married\u2026With Children actress got candid in her new memoir You with the Sad Eyes, out Tuesday (March 3). Keep reading to find out more\u2026 In the book, Christina reveals that she was asked to present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}