Christina Applegate's rock star fling from Brad Pitt love triangle breaks silence on romantic fiasco

Rock star Sebastian Bach of the band Skid Row has broken his silence on being part of a love triangle with Christina Applegate and Brad Pitt.

Applegate, 54, recently revealed the story of the time she brought her then-boyfriend Pitt as her date to the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards. 

She was already a household name as one of the stars of Married... with Children, while Pitt, 62, had yet to achieve the global superstardom he enjoys today.

During the ceremony, she caught sight of Bach and became smitten with him, ultimately ditching Pitt and leaving the awards show with the musician.

To add insult to injury, Pitt then had to drive home Applegate's mother as well as her friend Lori Allison, a makeup artist and the first of Johnny Depp's ex-wives. 

Now Bach, 57, has issued an apology for his role in the imbroglio, sharing that he was sorry if he 'hurt anybody,' in a new interview with Billboard. 

He noted he 'was very surprised' when Applegate's anecdote became public in her recently published memoir You with the Sad Eyes.

'I was a single guy on tour, in a band, and I met a lot of girls and I apologize if I hurt her...If I hurt anybody,' added the Canadian singer.

'When you’re young you get thrown into the whirlwind of rock ‘n’ roll, meeting a lot of people and you better hold on tight. It’s like being on a roller coaster...,' he observed. 'It was a long time ago. If I hurt anybody, I apologize for it.'

Applegate wrote in the memoir that she and Pitt, now 62, had been 'platonic pals for the longest time' before their rapport transformed.

She brought him as her date to that year's MTV Video Music Awards when she was a 17-year-old sitcom star and he was a 25-year-old struggling actor.

Once she arrived at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles for the event, however, the teen star became sidetracked and 'spent all night staring at Bach, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting the band Skid Row,' she wrote.

'I hate to put it like this, but Brad back then was still making his way as an actor, and he wasn’t yet THE Brad Pitt, the man of so many people’s dreams,' she noted.

'I felt so powerful and sure of myself for once that when the awards show was over, I left with Sebastian Bach,' Applegate then confessed.

'And it gets worse: Brad was left to sullenly drive my mom and Lori home. Apparently, at a gas station on the way, Brad almost got into a fight with a bunch of gang members, and, not surprisingly, was subsequently very mad at me.'

She shared that two of his later 'movie star girlfriends' asked her 'if it was true that I was the girl who left Brad behind at the MTV Video Music Awards. Brad had apparently told both of them separately that he was still mad at me.'

Pitt was bruised enough by the fiasco not to speak to Applegate for several years, although the pair were then able to reach a rapprochement.

'Eventually, we agreed that I'd been a child, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row,' she explained in her buzzy new memoir. 'Of course, Brad is now Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach...well, he still has long hair, I guess.'

Applegate was subsequently married to actor Johnathon Schaech from 2001 until 2007, and she subsequently did settle down with a rock musician.

Her current husband, whom she exchanged vows with in 2013, is Dutch bassist Martyn Le Noble of the Los Angeles alt rock band Porno for Pyros.