American actress, Jennifer Coolidge has revealed that she went to extreme lengths to procure liquor when she was underage.
While appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” the “White Lotus” actress was straightforward about her mischievous high school days.
Kimmel and Coolidge were discussing New Orleans, the actress’s current home.
With Mardi Gras wrapping up this week, the host asked Coolidge if she’d ever experienced similarly “crazy parties” when she was growing up just outside of Boston.
“Were you, like, a drinker growing up?” Kimmel asked.
Coolidge cheekily responded, “Growing up in Massachusetts, you didn’t really have a choice.”
Coolidge admitted that the warmer weather in New Orleans is much more conducive to fun, saying that Massachusetts’ freezing cold presented unique challenges for partying.
“I was always so cold out in the snow, drinking with my friends,” she recalled.
“I was just freezing.”
Kimmel pressed further, asking at what age she started drinking.
“[I] started in high school,” Coolidge responded.
“How would you get alcohol in high school?” he continued.
The “Legally Blonde” star admitted that it usually required getting an “older person” to procure her a good time.
Coolidge then recounted a memory of visiting a friend named Marie.
“I was up in her [mother’s] room, in her dressing room, and I found her wig and her cat glasses, and I put it on, and then all of a sudden, Marie goes, ‘You look so old!’” Coolidge recalled. “And then we sort of just figured out. We started talking about it, and then I put on her mother’s coat and everything and … she’s like, ‘We can get beer this way.’”
The Hollywood actress revealed that another friend coached her on how to pull off the ruse, and she even “took on a weird voice” for the full effect, a moment that she confesses might have started her journey into acting.
“He sold me the case of beer, and I was so thrilled,” Coolidge said with pride.
