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NBC News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Morgan Wallen on his controversial 'SNL' exit: 'I was just ready to go home'
Country singer Morgan Wallen has addressed his controversial "Saturday Night Live" exit, saying he was simply "ready to go home." Wallen, 31, made headlines for his abrupt departure after he was the show's musical guest in March. Whereas many hosts and musical guests remain on stage and mingle with the cast after the show has wrapped, Wallen hugged the host and walked off within seconds. Over the weekend, he chatted on the podcast 'Sundae Conversation with Caleb Pressley,' about the stir his exit made. "Could you fix a TV, if it was on 'SNL?'" host Caleb Pressley asked him. "I could change it for sure," Wallen replied with a laugh. "Seriously, 'SNL,' did they make you mad?" the host pressed. "No, no," Wallen said. "I was just ready to go home. I'd been there all week." "You had to get your plane. 'Get me to God's country,'" Pressley said, quoting the Instagram story Wallen posted after the show that night, picturing a plane sitting on the runway. Wallen turned the viral post into merchandise less than a week later, selling baseball caps and shirts on his website. "SNL" cast members Bowen Yang and Kenan Thompson addressed the unusual exit on TODAY with Jenna & Friends last month, but with a focus on moving forward. 'This is the God's honest truth: Nothing happened, and so even after it happened, we all just showed up to work the next day because it's like, you've just got to move on to the next thing,' Yang said. Thompson previously told Entertainment Weekly that Wallen's exit was "a spike in the norm." "I don't know what goes through people's minds when they decide to do stuff like that," Thompson told the outlet. "I don't know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way."
USA Today
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Morgan Wallen addresses why he abruptly walked off 'SNL'
Morgan Wallen addresses why he abruptly walked off 'SNL' Show Caption Hide Caption Morgan Wallen dodges 'SNL' cast post-show, sparking criticism Morgan Wallen sparked controversy by abruptly walking off stage at the end of "Saturday Night Live" after serving as the musical guest. unbranded - Entertainment Morgan Wallen is finally addressing his controversial "SNL" exit. In an interview on "Sundae Conversation with Caleb Pressley," the country music star, 31, briefly discussed his decision to abruptly walk off the set of the sketch show before the credits had finished rolling. When Wallen was asked if "SNL" made him "mad," the singer denied this was the case. "No," he said. "I was just ready to go home. I'd been there all week." During the conversation, Wallen also chuckled when host Caleb Pressley jokingly asked, "Are you handy? Could you fix a TV — if it was on 'SNL'?" The singer quipped in response, "I could change it, for sure." Wallen was the musical guest on the March 29 episode of "Saturday Night Live," hosted by Mikey Madison. At the end of the episode, he controversially walked off the stage almost immediately after Madison signed off. Traditionally, the musical guest and host of "SNL" remain on stage to mingle with the cast and hang out throughout the entire credits. Morgan Wallen abruptly leaves 'SNL' stage: 'Get me to God's country' After his quick exit, Wallen posted a photo of a plane on Instagram and wrote, "Get me to God's country." The phrase quickly went viral, and the "I'm the Problem" singer wasted no time before selling "get me to God's country" merchandise in his store. The following episode of "SNL" referenced the controversy multiple times, with "Weekend Update" anchor Colin Jost joking, "Money is leaving the stock market faster than Morgan Wallen at goodnights." In the cold open, James Austin Johnson's President Donald Trump also used the phrase "get me to God's country," drawing applause. 'SNL' cold open takes aim at Trump's tariffs, mocks Morgan Wallen exit Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in March, "SNL" cast member Kenan Thompson said Wallen's abrupt exit was "definitely a spike in the norm," adding, "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?" Thompson also commented on Wallen's "get me to God's country" post, telling EW, "The 'God's country' of it all is strange because it's like, what are you trying to say? You trying to say that we are not in God's country? We're not all in God's country? We're not all under God's umbrella? That's not necessarily my favorite."
