Sam Heughan has shared the hilarious moments he was forced to 'bluff' to his strict Edinburgh headmistress in order to get out of trouble.
The Outlander star has opened up on his time in the capital after he moved here as a child in his new memoir, Waypoints, which has now been released to the public.
Moving to Edinburgh with his family at the age of 12, the star went from the remote scenery of a derelict castle in Dumfries and Galloway to the buzz of city life.
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Discussing the change in his life, the 42-year-old shared how he had begun attending high school at James Gillespie's, which he claimed was "very strong on rules and discipline."
Writing about a hilarious experience of almost getting into trouble from the headmistress, Heughan claimed the encounter may have been the first time he 'got into character', reports the Scottish Daily Express.
In a chapter titled 'The Wake-Up Call', he said: "After years of living in a quiet community, my mother, my brother and I packed our belongings for what felt like a whole new world.
"Swapping the stable and the castle ruins for a suburban street in Edinburgh, we set about settling in for this new chapter in our lives.
"It was a big change, but also hugely exciting for two young lads like Cirdan and me. I had just finished at my little primary school, so I started high school at the same time as all my new classmates."It was a little overwhelming to begin with, but since I could now see without the dreaded glasses, I soon started to make friends and feel comfortable in a crowd."
"On one occasion, I came very close to getting into trouble from the top," he says.
"At the time, I had just been made a school prefect... The incident began with a milk carton. I had been tasked with helping to dish them out at break time to pupils who were part of a milk-in-schools scheme."
He goes on: "On finding one left over, I decided to join the scheme for one break only... A moment later, like a gunslinger in some two-bit town, the headmistress stepped out.
"My eyes went wide with horror... I seized an escape route in the form of the door to the toilet block... I took one look at the open window and lobbed it out."
Heughan goes on to describe raiding a bin once his headmistress questioned him about the missing milk carton, and to his luck, he found one at the bottom.
"The headmistress considered the carton in my hand... Once again she seemed to be searching my expression for cracks. The face-off only lasted for a couple of seconds, but it felt like a lifetime.
"It was perhaps the first occasion that I'd got into character, and it wouldn't be the last. Ultimately it showed me what was possible if I delivered it with conviction."
Waypoints, which was released on October 25 2022, has seen Heughan recognised as the number one New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author. The memoir explores the 42-year-old actor's life and reflects on the 'waypoints' that define him.
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