You know what they say — when you gotta go, you gotta go. During this morning’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, a conversation about National Hydration Day somehow turned into Kelly Ripa‘s recollection of her “well-hydrated” son urinating all over her clothes.
Before we get into it, we should note that Joaquin Consuelos — now a 20-year-old college student — was only three at the time. And he was asleep.
Now that we have that out of the way, onto the story: Ripa and guest host Ryan Seacrest were discussing the trials and tribulations of going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, and, more importantly, how difficult it can be to find your way around a hotel room in the dark when you wake up and don’t know where you are.
The convo reminded Ripa of the time she was filming Live in New Orleans 17 years ago, when she stayed at a “fancy” three-bedroom suite at Harrah’s Resort and Casino. She noted that her husband (and now regular co-host) Mark Consuelos was out-of-town, which is why her youngest son, Joaquin, slept in bed with her.
Per Ripa’s recollection, a young Joaquin got out of bed in the middle of the night to use the bathroom — but most definitely did not realize where he was.
“I see his little head moving around the corner of the bed. And I’m like, ‘What’s he doing?’ And I said, ‘Joaquin.’ And he was clearly sleeping. He wasn’t answering me,” she explained. “He pulls open the drawer and I hear marbles dropping. I was like, ‘Is he playing with marbles?’”
Ripa continued, “He was peeing on the clothes. Because he got up, made a left [and] he thought he went into his bathroom. He was so tired, he just opened the drawer and peed into my wardrobe.”
The longtime Live host said she was then forced to wear a “parade of Harrah’s Hotel and Casino shirts” after her son “made sure he peed on every article of clothing” she brought on the trip.
“It was crazy. It was the craziest thing to watch,” she told the audience. “I watched him do it. I saw it through to the end. I was like, ‘Does he have marbles?’ And I realized when I got out of bed and came around that he was just standing there, sound asleep, just peeing.”
Kids, you gotta love ’em!
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