Jennifer Aniston’s Nighttime Habit Scared Brad Pitt During Their Marriage

In an interview with PEOPLE, Jennifer Aniston revealed insomnia and her anxiety about her inability to sleep are something she’s faced since young adulthood. She joked that walking the hall to her bedroom at night was comparable to “walking the plank.” Unfortunately, getting to sleep was just one nighttime hurdle; the starlet is also prone to sleepwalking.

Brad Pitt witnessed it firsthand when the couple was married from 2000 to 2005. As reported by Hello!, Pitt once divulged in an interview with Conan O’Brien that Aniston was known to wander their property while unconscious. “She gets a lot done when she’s asleep. The [house] alarm was going off and I found her outside. She had to negotiate through three or four rooms,” he recalled. Pitt shockingly revealed that the one time he found her outdoors, they lived on the edge of a cliff, which would have been incredibly dangerous. 

He explained that while he initially found it terrifying, he did eventually get used to it. “I’ll hear drawers opening and closing in the other room and I figure I’ll just go back to sleep, she’ll get some stuff done,” the “Babylon” actor admitted — that was when Aniston wasn’t talking in her sleep, which he divulged she also did frequently. Since those days, Aniston has improved her sleep habits, and it sounds like nighttime strolls are a thing of the past. This is good news because as of late, the single star has only her three dogs to keep her from a cliff’s edge.