Originally appeared on E! Online .

Jenna Bush Hager wanted a little more life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in college.

The former first daughter revealed that there was a time she escaped from the Secret Service while attending the University of Texas at Austin during her father George W. Bush's first term as president.

“I would be kind of embarrassed — and I hesitate even saying this,” Hager confessed on the Oct. 23 episode of " TODAY ," “but I dated a football player at Texas for a brief time. And I was embarrassed that the Secret Service would know that.”

The 43-year-old added, “I don’t know why, but I was.”

But as she thought about it, the daytime personality shared with guest co-host Savannah Guthrie , “I just didn’t want them to know I had a new boyfri

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