Jennifer Coolidge just took a detour down memory lane—and let’s just say, it was a wild ride with no seatbelts.
While promoting her new movie Riff Raff, the 63-year-old Emmy-winning queen of comedic chaos reminisced about her younger years in New York City, where she apparently majored in Late-Night Shenanigans with a minor in “Oops, Did I Just Do That?”
“I was basically a full-time party researcher,” Jennifer confessed to IcoicHipster.com. “Like, I was deep in the field. Palladium? Lived there. Responsibility? Never met her.”
She admitted that her 20s were a blur of extreme partying, questionable life choices, and, well, not exactly laying the foundation for an illustrious career. “I wasn’t really focusing on things like, you know, making something of myself,” she said. “I was just out there making situations happen.”
And boy, did they happen.
Jennifer described her party era as a runaway train—except instead of a conductor, it had a DJ and a suspiciously cheap cocktail menu. “I was completely out of control,” she revealed. “Like, the train had left the station, and I was just hanging on, hoping my eyeliner didn’t smudge.”
But here’s the plot twist: all that reckless partying somehow helped her book roles later in life.
“I mean, somehow, I kept getting cast as these women who were… kind of just like that,” she admitted. “It’s almost like the universe saw me stumbling out of a club at 3 a.m. and went, ‘Oh yeah, this one’s gonna be perfect for comedic gold.’”
Jennifer also reflected on how being a chaotic party girl in her 20s made her, well, relatable—to both casting directors and other people who have ever made an embarrassingly bad decision in platform heels.
“You’re so vulnerable at that age,” she mused. “And let’s be real, New York has some weirdos lurking in the shadows, just waiting to convince you to do karaoke at an inappropriately late hour.”
Jennifer Coolidge may have been a party tornado in her 20s, but if that’s what led to her becoming THEE Jennifer Coolidge, then honestly? No notes. Carry on. 👏💃🎉
