Brad Pitt is revamping his image — here's how it can help him in his custody battle

The INSIDER Summary:

• Brad Pitt is in the middle of a divorce from Angelina Jolie and custody fight over their six children.
• He says he "could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka," but now he's stopped.
• Pitt's drinking habits are at the center of the custody battle over his kids.

At the center of Brad Pitt's whirling, still-ongoing divorce from Angelina Jolie are allegations that he was drinking too much. It's his alleged alcohol consumption and weed-smoking that doesn't do him any favors in the custody fight over his kids.

In a new interview with GQ Style, Pitt admitted that he used to drink a lot.

"Truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka" he said. "I was a professional. I was good."

But Pitt also says he doesn't miss drinking and he doesn't "want to live that way anymore."

"I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground," he said. "I had to step away for a minute."

Now Pitt says he drinks "cranberry juice and fizzy water" which gives him "the cleanest urinary tract in all of LA, I guarantee you!"

The more stable image Pitt is projecting is important for the custody fight over his six children and hundreds of millions of dollars worth in assets. Right now, Pitt and Jolie have a temporary arrangement where the couple has therapy with their children.

Jolie also asked that Pitt gets tested for drug and alcohol consumption four times a month, but the precise details of their agreement are private.

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Pitt says he finds comfort in things other than drinking.

"I get up every morning and I make a fire. When I go to bed, I make a fire, just because — it makes me feel life," the actor said. "I just feel life in this house."