Sometimes, Karen Read might take things into her own hands, like when she got a “weak pour” at a bar the night her boyfriend died.

Unhappy with the alcohol level, she added extra shots on her own, according to a 2024 interview she gave for a documentary on Investigation Discovery.

The clip aired in court Thursday as part of her retrial on murder charges in the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.

“The drinks that they were pouring me at McCarthy’s, which was where I consumed most of the alcohol, was the weakest vodka tonic,” she told the camera. “It tasted just like all soda water with lime, not that I need it to be a martini, but it might have a splash of vodka in it.”

Around 8 p.m., before Read and O’Keefe met for drinks, she told him she was having a plumber stop by because her hot water had run out. He told her he would fix it Sunday or Monday. 

That could support the defense theory that O’Keefe did not sustain his injuries in a collision with Read’s SUV but rather from a possible altercation with another man at the party who had shared his own romantic texts with the defendant, Kenney Baden told Fox News Digital. 

Brennan played the ID clip after Guarino finished reading the texts. After that, Judge Beverly Cannone said, due to some confusion with the witnesses, the jury could go home for the day.

They are expected to hop on a bus for an in-person viewing of the crime scene when the trial resumes Friday.