Holder told the court on Wednesday his company, JACKITCo, was on the brink of administration when he went to Gin and Juice in Cheltenham on 6 May 2022, and the company collapsed the following week.
He said he remembers the night drawing to a close at about 01:00 on 7 May 2022.
Holder previously told police in an interview he would rank his drunkenness as a “seven or seven point five” out of 10 on that night.
Holder originally got into a taxi on the Promenade with a friend but, when a woman he had been out with got into a taxi, he decided to get into the back of her vehicle, along with his friend.
“That would have been my decision, I just really didn’t want to go home,” he said.
“The energy was brilliant, I didn’t want the party to stop; it was a snap decision.”
Holder said he “didn’t think to ask” the complainant whether it was okay to get in her taxi and go back to her flat, “but it was not about a lack of respect”.
He had never been to her flat, he added, but said, once they arrived at the complainant’s house, she invited them in as they were having “a brilliant laugh” outside.
