United Kingdom, March 4 -- 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 t...