Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton said he “had a moment of weakness” at a Dallas bar on Monday night because of a “personal reason with a family member” and apologized to his family, teammates, fans and the team in a news conference on Friday afternoon at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

“It was just wrong. That’s all it comes down to,” Hamilton said. “I needed to be at a different place. I needed to be responsible. I was not responsible. Those actions of mine have hurt a lot of people I’m very close to.”

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Hamilton did not elaborate on the personal matter that caused him to drink Monday. He said no drug use was involved and that he’s passed two tests since Monday.

Hamilton said he was out at dinner and ended up ordering some drinks. He called Rangers second baseman Ian Kinsler and asked him to come join him, but didn’t tell him he was drinking.

“I did not drink in front of him,” Hamilton said. “We finished up at this restaurant that was closing and decided to go across the street to another place that stayed open. We talked baseball, family, life, all these things.”

But after about 30 minutes, Kinsler was ready to go home. Hamilton said Kinsler dropped him off back at the other restaurant.

“His words were: I’ll see you later. Don’t go back out or anything, all right?” Hamilton said. “I did exactly what I told him I wouldn’t do. I went back to the place we had just left and had some more drinks.”

Hamilton didn’t say what happened next, but admitted that when he drinks “there’s a point that comes where a switch flips and you never know when that’s going to be flipped.”

Hamilton said the episode is a reminder that he must stay vigilent in staying on the right path.

“I can not take a break from my recovery,” Hamilton said. “My recovery is Christ. My recovery is an everyday process. When I take that one day off, it leaves me open for a moment of weakness and it’s always been that way. For everybody that I've hurt, for fans, kids, people that have addictions that look up to me, I apologize to you. When you're doing this, you don’t mean to hurt anybody, but you're only thinking it hurts yourself, but I know it hurt a lot of people.”