“It was a different time,” she recalled toBustle.

“We used to go out, do whatever we wanted.”

Meanwhile, Tom Brady was playing college football for the University of Michigan.

Tara Reid in front of American Pie poster

Brady and Reid met at ESPN’s Espy Awards in February 2000.

The two hit it off, talking and hanging out, and exchanged phone numbers.

“He’s so serious.

Young Tom Brady, young Tara Reid

He used to laugh,” she told Bustle about the seven-time Superbowl champion.

“When I watch his interviews, he’s so cocky now.”

Seven months later, the two were engaged to be married.

Tara Reid and Carson Daly; Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen

“I remember him studying all the time, memorizing his plays, his playbook.

Literally, it’s all he did,” she explained to NBC Sports Boston.

“If he could do that, he could definitely memorize lines.”