Wales international Sam Davies believes a drinking incident on tour might have contributed to him missing out on two years of international rugby.
The fly-half didn't win another cap following the incident in 2017 until a change of coaches following the Rugby World Cup with Wayne Pivac replacing Warren Gatland.
"It was the last game of a long old season, my first full season with Wales and I had enjoyed it with some great experiences, so I decided to let my hair down," revealed Davies.
"I drank too much vodka with Scott Baldwin and Aaron Shingler, who could probably drink a bit more than me.
"I went a bit deadweight on the way to the airport so the boys had to carry me around. It was not the greatest look for somebody in an international set-up.
"The flight then got cancelled and I had to get carried back. So we are not talking about a good impression on that trip."
"The coaches did not speak to me (about the incident) but they did speak to the leadership group and they told me," said Davies.
"Essentially it did have a massive effect on my career at that time.
"I am not saying I came off the back of that trip playing really good rugby because I was struggling with a groin injury as well but it definitely did not help my image at the time.
"I was silly but everybody makes mistakes. Luckily it did not make the papers. Maybe I had to go through that to get where I am now.
"I have learned because I did not get back into the squad until last year for the Barbarians game."
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Six times rugby players seriously MESSED up
Here are six times rugby players and coaches seriously messed up...
1 Martin Castrogiovanni in Vegas, 2016
Italy prop Martin Castrogiovanni had been suspended by his club Racing 92 after pictures of him partying in Las Vegas surfaced on social media with Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The 34-year-old had told Racing that he could not play in their Champions Cup semi-final clash with Leicester Tigers as he had a family matter to attend to in Argentina. Naughty boy.
2 England vs dwarves, 2011
Current Captain Mike Tindall was leading his country into battle at the 2011 Rugby World Cup but still had time to play a part in the ‘Mad Midget Weekender’ along with a number of other squad members.
Incidents such as that plus Tindall kissing his ex-girlfriend in a bar and Manu Tuilagi diving into Auckland harbour ‘became the story’, summed up what was overall a terrible campaign for the men in white.
2 John Jeffrey & Dean Richards vs the Calcutta Cup, 1988
It was not only Scottish pride that was dented after they lost 9-6 to England at Murrayfield, the almost priceless Calcutta Cup itself came in for some rough treatment itself.
Scotland's John Jeffrey and England's Dean Richards (a policeman in the real world) kicked the 110-year-old trophy down Edinburgh's Princes Street.
he outrage could not have been more had it been the Queen Mother instead of the cup, with some calling for life bans.
As it was, Jeffrey was banned for six months and Richards for one match.
3 Andy Powell in a golf cart, 2010
He's the Welsh rugby star who nicked a golf buggy under the influence of alcohol and took it for a spin down the M4.
Powell was disqualified from driving for 15 months and fined £1,000 for driving a buggy down the hard shoulder of the M4 in the early hours of Valentines Day in 2010.
Brecon-born Powell had been out celebrating Wales’ last-gasp win over Scotland at the Millennium Stadium, in which he had played 49 minutes.
He was arrested at a motorway service station at junction 33 of the M4 after he decided to drive the golf buggy from the Vale Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort off junction 34 to get some “munchies”.
4 Pontypridd vs Brive, 1997
The famous “Battle of Brive” began on the pitch and spilled over into an almost full-scale riot in a bar afterwards.
5 Trevor Brennan vs a fan 2007
One of the few incidents that do not involve the aggressors being drunk.
Former milkman and full-time mentalist Brennan decided that an Ulster fan needed a good hiding and so waded into the crowd to make it so, raining punches down on his head.
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