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Brad Pitt Says He Suffers From 'Face Blindness' Condition Called Prosopagnosia But Nobody Believes Him

This is why he believes some people think of him as "remote, aloof, inaccessible and self-absorbed".

Brad Pitt suffers from prosopagnosia.


The Oscar-winning actor has never officially been diagnosed but believes he suffers from the condition, which is also known as face blindness, and he thinks it has led people to have the wrong opinion of him.


Speaking to GQ, Pitt, 58, explained that he often struggles to remember new people and he worries that people think of him as "remote, aloof, inaccessible and self-absorbed".


When interview Ottessa Moshfegh told Pitt that her husband believes he has the same condition, the Fight Club actor said: "Nobody believes me! I wanna meet another."

Prosopagnosia occurs when there is a problem in the Temporo-Occipital area of the right side of the brain and symptoms and treatments vary among patients.

Pitt has struggled with his condition for years and he previously brought it up in a 2013 interview with Esquire


He said then: "So many people hate me because they think I'm disrespecting them. So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended.

"Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I p*** more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested."

Pitt's new movie, Bullet Train, opens in cinemas on Aug 4. 

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