Jenna Bush Hager and her sister did not have what many would consider a normal start to adulthood considering their father, George W. Bush, became President of the United States just as they were beginning their freshman year in college.

And Bush Hager remembers that time quite well. She told Hoda Kotb all about that fateful election night during a recent broadcast of Today With Hoda & Jenna, where she revealed that she spent the night taking shots with her roommates and planning her “last weekend of freedom” before she got stuck with a Secret Service detail following her around.

Bush Hager explained that her college roommates “did not know what to make” of her when she first arrived at the dorm that semester, noting that they seemed “shocked” by her.

“Well, the president’s daughter is now their roommate,” Kotb commented.

“Well, I wasn’t the president’s daughter yet,” Bush Hager replied. “But I was right on the precipice.”

The year was 2001 and her father was running for what would become his first term as President of the United States. Bush Hager was just beginning as a student at the University of Texas at Austin.

She explained to Kotb that there was a “50/50 chance” her father would get elected that year. But the conversation reminded her of a “terrible” story from that election day, which usually means the Today host is about to share something incredibly juicy with the audience. And she certainly did!

“On Election Day, [my roommates] were like, ‘We gotta get some mind erasers,’ which was a shot in the early aughts,” Bush Hager told Kotb.

She continued, while impersonating her roommates’ southern accents, “‘We gotta get you a mind eraser because who knows what’s gonna happen tonight.’ So I had one and my mind didn’t erase. And then he was elected… And my roommates were like, ‘We need the last weekend of freedom. Put it in your agenda.’ Like, the weekend before I got Secret Service.”

She revealed that her roommates hatched a plan to drive to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico to celebrate her last weekend without a Secret Service detail.

“You drove across the border?” Kotb asked in surprise.

“I drove across the border,” Bush Hager confirmed. “It used to be safer! But I drove across the border to Acuña, Mexico. It was legal to drink there so it felt safer.”

When Kotb asked what the bar in Mexico was like, Bush Hager admitted that the only detail she can remember from that night was that the bar had a slide.

She then clasped her hands in prayer and said, “Thank God I’m alive. Thank you, God.”

Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.