MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell claims he once had a sip of a beer when he was young but has never tasted alcohol since.
O’Donnell made the startling revelation in a series of tweets responding to questions from his Twitter followers.
Perfect movie on my flight back to work at 30 Rock: Anchorman 2!
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 6, 2014
@Lawrence please have a scotch on air, and keep the beard. — onehandle (@onehandle) July 7, 2014
.@onehandle It would be my first one. — Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 7, 2014
@Lawrence Have you never drunk alcohol? — chris lines (@cjflines) July 7, 2014
.@cjflines Never.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 7, 2014
@Lawrence Not even a beer, Lawrence? Do friends call you Larry?
— Nancy Silk (@NancyofUtah) July 7, 2014
.@NancyofUtah I tasted beer when I was a kid and couldn’t believe people liked it. Worst thing I ever tasted. That was first & last time. — Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 7, 2014
Some of his followers pressed him further.
@Lawrence Communion wine? ;- — Kevin Flynn (@ProfessorFlynn) July 7, 2014
.@ProfessorFlynn Never.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 7, 2014
@Lawrence @ProfessorFlynn Whisky Scotch Bourbon Vodka Gin Tequila None of it?
— amy johnson (@Cranmer3483) July 7, 2014
.@Cranmer3483 @ProfessorFlynn None.
— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) July 7, 2014
There was one probing question, however, that Lawrence refrained from answering.
@Lawrence @Cranmer3483 @ProfessorFlynn : NyQuil?
— Keith (@NorCalKeith) July 7, 2014
In a 2011 interview with Playboy magazine, O’Donnell explained his decision to abstain from alcohol.
“I simply hated the taste of it,” he said. “I had nothing against it. I just wouldn’t put something in my mouth that I hated the taste of. It became a mostly faulty girl-getting strategy. My teenage strategy was, ‘I’ll be the one who’s not puking. Let’s see if that works.’ It turns out the girls in my neighborhood weren’t interested in you no matter what you did, so it didn’t work.”