(WWJ) -- It could be argued that bloody marys on an empty stomach and a good ole’ football rivalry don’t make a great combination.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel addressed “tailgate-gate” on Facebook Wednesday evening. She admitted to getting drunk to the point of feeling sick at the Oct. 30 football game between Michigan and Michigan State in East Lansing.
According to the Detroit News, this post may have been in response to requests for an incident report filed by conservative group, Michigan Rising Action. The group sent requests to MSU and East Lansing police looking to see if there was any medical assistance for Nessel at Spartan Stadium.
Another request asked for university police emails.
The group worked to verify information that was given to the executive director on Oct. 30. The director was told that Nessel was heavily intoxicated and behaving erratically, among other reported allegations.
Nessel began her Facebook post by writing that her staff “pleaded” with her to hire a crisis-management PR firm to handle this situation, but she instead took it upon herself to do.
She wrote that drinking two bloody marys at a tailgate party before eating any food was the reason why she had to leave the game early.
“I laid low for a while, but my friends recommended that I leave so as to prevent me from vomiting on any of my constituents (polling consistently shows “Roman showers” to be unpopular among most demographics),” Nessel wrote on Facebook.
She added that while leaving the stadium a few people helped her up the stairs and grabbed her a wheelchair so she could get through the parking lot without stumbling.
And like “all smart people” attending events with drinking involved, she said she had a designated driver to take her home where she would recover on her couch.
"I am human," she wrote. "Sometimes I screw up. This was definitely one of those times.”
Nessel also pledged to never have another bloody mary as it will take a while to get that taste out of her mouth.
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