Candice Bergen Reveals She Burned Down Swiss Restaurant as Teen With Wine Trick

What was said

"I said, 'Oh, let's flavor the fat. Let's put some wine in the fat.' So, I jauntily dumped my glass in the fat, and this went This flame went up onto the ceiling of the restaurant. And it We were all evacuated. It was snowing outside."

At age 14 while attending boarding school in Gstaad, Switzerland, Bergen accidentally set fire to the Olden restaurant by pouring wine into meat fondue fat, causing flames to reach the ceiling and requiring full evacuation. She was not allowed out for the rest of the year. Two decades later, a ski instructor in the village still recognized her as the woman who burned down the restaurant.