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Gerard Butler Explained His Embarrassing Wardrobe Malfunction

We've all had (or come way too close for comfort to) a wardrobe malfunction at some point in our lives. A popped button, an unfortunate gust of wind, a mis-timed bend down to pick up a dropped wallet: it happens to the best of us.

Including Gerard Butler.

Gerard's malfunction happened in front of an entire wedding's worth of guests.

And not just ANY wedding. Of course it had to be the most embarrassing situation possible, so it was obviously at his sister's wedding.

He told the story on Conan O'Brien's show.

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"I had to do the first reading," he said, referring to the Catholic wedding tradition. "It was a Catholic wedding, it was like 400 people in the congregation."

Being Scottish, Gerard was obviously in the tradional attire of a kilt.

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"I’m sitting looking, and my mum's in the front rowd andshe’s looking up at me and I’m looking down on her," he continued. "I think, 'She’s telling me to pray...'"

" I look down and my kilt is spread wide, facing the whole congregation!"

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Then Gerard confirmed the worst. "We don’t wear underwear under a kilt. I definitely, that day, was not wearing underwear."

There are some situations where a crowd might be happy to see Gerard Butler in an open kilt, but his sister's wedding was probably not one of them.