Patricia Heaton

And I think you want me to quit drinking.

I will not be able to do it.

And so you're going to have to do it, but I am willing, but I'm not able.

So the next day, my son had invited me to come to dinner at his house with his friends.

And I brought my other sons.

I have four sons.

And I brought some wine and we were drinking while we were making food, drinking while we were eating, drinking while we were cleaning up and drinking while we were playing a board game.

Now this is over the span of like five hours.

And...

I felt fine because it was just a top, top it off, top it off, top it off throughout the evening, red wine.

And I was trying to make a joke at this table full of all these young men and my sons.

And I said, you know, in our family, it's a tradition.

And I could not say the word tradition.

And I tried three times to pronounce it and I could not pronounce it.

And I'm telling you, I was not slurring my words otherwise.

There was nothing, I was fine.

But my son, my youngest son at the end of the table goes, oh, that's really great, mom.

You can't even talk.

And I'm so horrified to have that little blip in the middle of this dinner with all my sons and their friends.

But on top of that, I thought, I feel perfectly fine, but something is going on in my brain, even if I think I'm fine.