David Letterman interviewed Ryan Reynolds for his show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. And for the show, he went to Ryan’s house to help him prepare a meal.

He asked Ryan, “When you were a kid, were you rebellious?”

Ryan answered, “Well, I don’t know if I was that rebellious. Like many 12-year-olds, I remember I really wanted to get an earring, but I knew my father would kill me. But I soon thought, ‘No, I’m going to do it!’”

Ryan then detailed how he went to a friend’s house, his friend’s mother took him and his friend to the mall, and he got an earring.

That night, Ryan got home at dinner time and sat at his dining room table. He kept his head down, knowing that all hell would break loose when his father sat down and saw the earring.

His three brothers, mother and father all sat down at the table. He heard his dad mutter, “Bloody hell,” then say, “You bastards.”

He looked up and saw all of his brothers had earrings in their ears. They’d all decided to help him out by getting earrings that day.

As a result, Ryan didn’t have to face the full force of his father’s anger, and he got away with it.