“Saturday Night Live” star Ashley Padilla began her interview on Amy Poehler’s podcast “Good Hang” worried she was going to be “so scary boring” — and only about 15 minutes in, she proved to be the exact opposite.

In fact, Padilla admitted to Poehler that when she was 16, she got arrested, said something incredibly unhinged to the cops and landed herself in court-ordered therapy — that she had to attend with her mom.

Padilla prefaced her story by explaining that she was an “awful” student in high school and described herself as a “bad girl.” When Poehler asked how exactly she “got in trouble,” Padilla shot back, “Arrested.”

After Poehler expressed shock, Padilla went on to list what she was charged with, “Obstruction of justice, resisting arrest… my mother pulling in as I’m cuffed on the top of the cop car.”

“So cool,” Poehler said.

Padilla explained that the kerfuffle began when she fled a party with a boy holding her “fake Chanel” bag.

“I was like, running from a party, but there had been a hit-and-run,” Padilla said, explaining that cops were already in the area.

Thanks to the police presence, her friend was arrested, and police figured Padilla had to be nearby because he was still holding her purse.

Padilla said she hid in a rose bush for about four hours before the cops found her.

“When they pulled me out, I said — and they wrote this down… it was in the police report — I said, ‘It’s about time you motherfuckers caught me,’” said Padilla with a laugh, delighting Poehler.

“For who?! Who is that for? What was that for?” Padilla said, reflecting on those seven wild words she said to the police.

The 33-year-old comedian, who began her tenure on “SNL” in 2024, explained that because she was just 16 at the time, she was given the option to have the arrest “removed from [her] record” if she attended “court-ordered therapy with [her] mother.”

Padilla went on to say that the two did end up going to the court-ordered therapy — but her single, career-oriented mother made it clear that she felt the session was a complete waste of her time.

“She’s sitting there, and the therapist was like, ‘I want you guys to draw for me.’ And my mom was like, ‘No.’”

At this, Poehler lost it, pounding her fist on the table and she barreled over her desk in laughter.

“And [the therapist] was like, ‘...OK,’” Padilla recalled giggling. “And I remember [my mom’s], like, flipping through a magazine, like, ‘I’m not doing that.’”

Padilla had to participate however, and was instructed to draw herself and a house.

“And I drew a house and myself — and I shit you not, Amy — the woman said, ‘Now why did you draw yourself smaller than the house?’” Padilla recalled. “And I was like, ‘To fit in the house?’”

The therapist disagreed, telling Padilla it was because she felt “small.”

“It was like, crazy,” Padilla said of her therapist’s assessment — especially since earlier in the interview Padilla said she grew up never having “any fear” or feeling “too small for the world” thanks to her mother’s example.

Padilla concluded her story by saying that for some reason, her little brother Teddy was also brought to the therapy session and happily obliged the therapist by drawing a picture of himself by a house as well.

“And he drew a castle with a man named Fred getting electrocuted on the side of the castle,” Padilla said, cracking up. “And the [therapist] said, ‘I’m going to keep this one for the files.’”

Padilla said her mom wasn’t thrilled about the therapist’s reaction to her little brother’s drawing.

“And my mom was driving [home afterward] saying, ’Great! Now they’re going to take Teddy!”

Watch Padilla tell the entire tale in the video above.

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