Country music star breaks silence on controversial ‘SNL’ exit
Morgan Wallen was just ready to go.
That pretty much sums up his controversial “Saturday Night Live” exit that had people talking for weeks.
“No, no, I was just ready to go home,” the “Last Night” singer said during the May 11 episode of “Sundae Conversations with Caleb Pressley” when asked if someone at “SNL” made him mad. “I’d been there all week.”
Wallen, who has a new album, “I’m the Problem,” dropping Friday, made headlines on the March 30 episode of “SNL” when he walked off stage before the broadcast ended.
“SNL” cast member Kenan Thompson discussed the exit shortly after it happened.
“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,” he told “Entertainment Weekly” on March 31. “I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.
“It’s definitely a spike in the norm. We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about?”
Morgan performed his duties as the musical guest, but he didn’t participate in a sketch featuring “SNL” cast members Ego Nwodim, Chloe Fineman, Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman, as well as Saturday’s guest host, Mikey Madison.
Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.