CNN’s Don Lemon spent New Year’s Eve doing what he always does, getting drunk with Brooke Baldwin.

How drunk?

He thought he spotted an old college girlfriend named “Michelle” in the crowd.

Turns out “Michelle” is WWL (New Orleans) Reporter Caresse Jackman (red jacket) and was not his old girlfriend.

BTW- Watch Baldwin ask the woman if she “smooched”?

Yep….This is CNN.