Christina Applegate dumped Brad Pitt for Skid Row rock star Sebastian Bach.

The 54-year-old actress has recalled inviting the Hollywood hunk - who was yet to become "the man of so many people's dreams" - alongside other members of her LA posse to the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, where the Married With Children star was appearing as a presenter.

In an extract from her new memoir You With Sad Eyes, shared by PageSix, she wrote: "I had spent all night staring at Bach, who was then a long-haired hunk fronting the band Skid Row.

"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."

Christina - who was 17 at the time - added that Brad, then 26, was left having to "sullenly" take her mother home.

She continued: "And it gets worse: Brad was left to sullenly drive my mom … 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."

Christina also found out that Bach had a longterm partner and baby, while Brad "didn't talk" to her for "many years" and seemingly told future flames about the snub.

She said: "Much later … two of [Pitt's] movie star girlfriends asked me 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.

"Eventually, we agreed that I'd been a kid, and though he deserved much better, it was time to forgive the child who dumped him for the lead singer of Skid Row."

She quipped: "Of course, Brad is now THE Brad Pitt, and Sebastian Bach … well, he still has long hair, I guess."

By 1999, Christina was dating actor Johnathon Schaech, and the pair got married in October 2001.

He filed for divorce after four years citing irreconcilable differences, with the separation finalised in 2007.

Elsewhere in the book, she recalled being gripped by doubt at the ceremony, but she never considered calling it off.

She reflected: "For a start, I was halfway down the aisle. I kept thinking, 'Don't be that guy. Don't be that guy. Don't be that guy. You're sabotaging.'"

The Dead To Me star - who wasn't convinced even after their first date - described the wedding itself as "a master class in anal perfectionism," with a ceremony "choreographed within an inch of its life" -- but admitted none of the careful planning could mask her unease.

She explained: "I knew right then that this was not the man for me."