Ian Somerhalder admitted this weekend to having his first drink at around 4 years old. 

When most kids are preparing for kindergarten, the "Vampire Diaries" actor told the New York Post, he used to "steal mint juleps from my family" at his home in Louisiana, which he said was always well stocked with sugar cane, an ingredient in the drink. 

"I’m sure it was 4. … It was the early ‘80s, like ’81," the 44-year-old remembered when asked about his first drink. He was speaking at an event for his new bourbon brand Brother’s Bond he launched two years ago with his former "Vampire Diaries" co-star Paul Wesley, who played his bother on the show. 

"Those are the first memories I have of muddled mint, sugar cane and that smell of bourbon," he told the outlet. 

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He said when he was a kid in the South, "there was no socioeconomics for bourbon. So, someone who was an executive of a company is going to be drinking the same bourbon as someone who is a blue-collar worker. So, that was really amazing, sort of this level playing field."

Somerhalder added that he was caught by adults with a drink in his hand a few times and scolded to "put that down!"

He added that bourbon is "literally part of culture down there, and it’s really special because it’s bonding. It’s what so many families do, and it’s just special."

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The "V Wars" star now has a family of his own. He married "Twilight" actress Nikki Reed in 2015, and they have a 5-year-old daughter with a second child on the way. 

The "Lost" actor also admitted in 2019 to losing his virginity at an early age.

"[I was] 13. It was fun," Somerhalder told Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show, "Radio Andy." "When you’re 13 and you’re a boy, you know, or a girl, boys are pretty on it."

Somerhalder noted that the girl he slept with was 16 at the time.

He told the Post that, as a teenage athlete, he also used to "blood dope," which he said was "super illegal in competitive sports but, like, we used to spit out plasma before like a huge race or something and just shoot it all back in." 

Blood doping is meant to increase red blood cell mass to enhance an athlete’s performance, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. 

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"We used to do triathlons, and we used to do like 100-mile road races. And you spit out all your plasma and put it back in right before your race. You have 35% more oxygen usage, so you’re just like a beast," he said. "You can’t do it anymore, [but] oh my God, in the early '90s, in competitive sports, especially, like, triathlons and road races, yeah everybody did it."

Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Somerhalder for additional comment. 

A local Mississippi meteorologist invoked the name of Jesus Christ live on air as he watched a deadly tornado approach the town of Amory, Mississippi Friday night.

While reporting on the tornado’s trajectory and seeing it get close to the populated town, WTVA’s Matt Laubhan told viewers to get into their "Tornado safe place."

He then paused and prayed to Christ to keep its resident’s safe. 

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Laubhan was tracking the deadly tornado Friday night at the NBC-affiliate's news station in Tupelo, Mississippi, as it tore through the state, where it would ultimately kill 23 people. 

The Emmy-award winning meteorologist was glued to his storm tracker screen as he reported the movement of the storm, becoming noticeably perturbed as he realized the tornado was most likely going to veer directly towards Amory.

At the outset of the nearly two-minute-long clip – which has since racked up more than a million views on Twitter – Laubhan pointed out that his radar was showing a "strong tornado here, just east of Amory."

"How far to Amory are we talking about?" he asked as he updated and adjusted his real-time models. 

Upon further observations, he said, "Assuming we’re moving 65 miles per hour, I would say the western few streets in Amory were now less than two minutes away."

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As radar images behind the meteorologist displayed the storm getting closer to the town, Laubhan warned, "This is a strong, life-threatening tornado that’s going to move either extremely close to Amory, or in through the northern part of the city of Amory."

He then offered his viewers a disclaimer that he could be wrong about his prediction: "Y’all trust me too much. I tell you where it goes and some of you are like, ‘That’s where it’s going to go.’ But the reality is, this could be changing directions."

Either way, he advised viewers in Amory, "We need to be in our tornado safe place."

Upon seeing a new scan, Laubhan grew tense. The tornado appeared to be moving directly toward the town. He said, "We got a new scan coming in as we speak. Oh man, like north side of Amory this is coming in."

Growing more emotional, he again said, "Oh man," and bent over his instruments, letting out a heavy sigh. 

At that moment he then turned to the Almighty, saying, "Dear Jesus, please help them. Amen." 

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After the brief prayer, Laubhan returned to his play-by-play of the tornado's trajectory, noting that it was about to cross "the Highway 6 bridge within the next 20 seconds or so."