It's an iconic photo that has gone down in celebrity mug shot infamy, but Nick Nolte recently denied that the 2002 image of him looking scraggly haired in a Hawaiian shirt is really an official police picture.

Now the California Highway Patrol has set the record straight by confirming that the photo of the bleary-eyed actor was the official booking photo taken at Lost Hills Sheriff’s station as originally reported, according to ABCNews.com.

“(Nolte) goes around here, to the local papers, saying these things every now and then. I don’t think he really remembers what happened that day," said Officer Leland Tang.