violent with beverly as she tried to stop him from driving drunk. >> i mean, i even hit her one time. that's when she got out of the truck and said i'm not going to ride with you. i said stay here then. i just drove off, just straight into a ditch. >> did you regret it? >> oh, yeah. like i felt like poo-cocky as far as that goes. honestly. i really need to roll in it. >> so did you worry how that would look? >> no. i didn't worry a bit. i wanted to find beverly. one thing, i wanted to find beverly. i said, you know, i hit her, and that was that. just one time out of 34 years, one slap up side the head, that is bad. >> he says that was many years ago and beverly never held it against him. >> she forgave me right then because she knew that i wasn't -- it wasn't me.