Wheel of Fortune’s Pat Sajak has admitted he has hosted the show while drunk.

Yesterday (Thursday) he told ESPN2’s Dan LeBatard that on long dinner breaks he and co-host Vanna White would down sweet-and-sour tequila cocktails at a bar across from their Burbank studio. “Vanna and I would go across and have two or three or six and then come and do the last shows and have trouble recognizing the alphabet. They are really good tapes to get a hold of.”

Sajak, 65, says his drinking days are behind him. “Now, if I were to inhale the cork and a bottle of wine I would probably keel over, I’m getting a little older for this.”