KISS may like to "Rock and Roll All Nite," but Gene Simmons stays away from drugs and alcohol — minus the one time he consumed marijuana by accident. The rock star opened up about

his sobriety and recalled the one time he got high after mistakenly eating several brownies laced with cannabis in a recent interview on the _Your Mom's House with Christina P. and Tom

Segura _podcast. After Simmons, 74, claimed he'd "never been drunk or high" in his life, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member's son Nick (who also appeared on the

podcast) brought up "one accidental story" in which his father did partake in marijuana. According to the legendary performer, the incident happened in 1976 at a party following a

brownies piled on it, and I love that stuff," explained Gene. "Everyone's [like] 'Let's smoke, let's put things up our ass.' No, just give me cake.” He

recalled a woman passing around the brownies at the party. "It didn't hurt that she wasn't bad looking — this is before I met your mom," Gene joked to Nick, referencing

wife Shannon Tweed, whom the rocker married in 2011 after 28 years of dating. The woman holding the brownies then approached Gene, who asked for another one. "Then I started, like a dog

with a bone, just following her around. 'Can I have another one?' 'You want another one?' And I just kept eating it — six," he detailed. Eventually, however,

Gene's high began kicking in. "The room started to get bigger, and my head started to get smaller — all the way down to the size of an olive on my shoulder," he said. "I

remember this — I started to open my eyes so that people would think I was normal." He felt as though his hands "ballooned up like cartoons" and felt uneasy, until he ran into

_Creem _magazine co-founder Jaan Uhelszki — who spoke to _Classic Rock_ about the ill-fated evening in 2019. Uhelszki's recollection of events was slightly different, as she claimed

the party was held in 1974 and said Gene only ate three brownies, though "one would have put you over the top." Gene told the _Your Mom's House _hosts he and Uhelszki left the

party and took a limo to a restaurant, so he could quench his thirst with a beverage. "It's filled with neighborhood folks who are there at night grabbing a burger and stuff after

the show, and I'm dressed in leather, no kidding, and they all turn around," he said. "I'm thinking, _They're all looking at me because my head is small._ So I try

to make myself bigger," continued the rock icon. "And I go up, and the guy goes, 'What'll ya have?' And I go — yelling — 'Can I have a glass of milk?!’” He

remembered going back to the hotel and thinking his room key was "enormous," quipping on the podcast that he also felt his genitals had "never been as big in my life."

After telling the story, Gene said he wanted "to be serious for a second" and explain the real reason behind his chosen sobriety. "I never wanted to get high or drunk because

of my mother. She was in a concentration camp when she was 14 years of age, and I never wanted to break her heart," he noted. "I was always aware I never wanted to disappoint her —

 there was enough aggravation. So I never smoked cigarettes, never got high, never got drunk."