George Lopez jokes about public intoxication [PHOTO]

WINDSOR, Ontario, March 1 (UPI) -- Comedian George Lopez issued a statement to TMZ joking about his arrest for public intoxication at a Canadian casino Thursday night.

http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/28/george-lopez-arrested-public-intoxication/#ixzz2ujDzadwI

“Tied one on last night.  Not feeling great this morning. I was trying to sleep it off, unfortunately, it was on the casino floor," he said in the statement.

https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2014/02/28/George-Lopez-arrested-for-public-intoxication/3031393617262/#ixzz2ujERUimA

Lopez was snapped laying on the floor by a passerby.

George Lopez passed out at the casino last night! pic.twitter.com/W0YqsEdjVW

— Chad Maura (@ChadMaura) February 28, 2014

No charges were filed, but he was taken into custody until he sobered up.

In an interview in 2005, Lopez said he no longer drinks after receiving a kidney transplant from his wife.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20147885,00.html

"I have a total change of life. I'm done drinking alcohol and … maybe done smoking cigars, which I love. I'm not going to abuse my body. For the first time in my life, because of [my wife] Ann, I'm going to live the healthy life that I should have been living. Whatever happens to me professionally and wherever my golf swing goes, nothing is more important than the fact that my wife gave me a chance to live. I can't pay her back, but what I can do is make her as happy as she thought I would when we first got married," he said two months after his surgery.