


Country singer Morgan Wallen cleared up rumors that he angrily exited “Saturday Night Live” when he performed on the show as its musical guest in March, saying that “SNL” didn’t make him mad.
“I was just ready to go home,” Wallen told comedian Caleb Pressley on Pressley’s YouTube channel. “I had been there all week.”
In a video published Sunday, Wallen appeared in Pressley’s comedic “Sundae Conversation” series, in which Pressley asked Wallen humorous questions, including if he cuts his own grass and takes out his own trash. Pressley then asked Wallen if he was a handyman around the house.
“Could you fix a TV ―” Pressley said before pausing, “if it was on ‘SNL’?”
Wallen laughed, then said, “I could change it, for sure.”
Wallen made headlines in late March when he walked off the “SNL” stage, while the rest of the cast and guest host Mikey Madison were still saying their goodbyes. Later that night, Wallen posted a photo of his private jet on social media with the caption, “Get me to God’s country.” The caption soon became a meme with social media users writing it alongside irrelevant photos, including “SNL” writer Josh Patten, who posted a photo of a Krispy Kreme truck with the caption.
Longtime “SNL” cast member Kenan Thompson said Wallen’s exit was “definitely a spike in the norm” and thought Wallen “had to go to the potty or something.”
“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,” Thompson said. “I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “SNL” asked Wallen to appear in the pre-taped musical sketch “Big Dumb Line,” but he “wasn’t available.” Instead, Joe Jonas filled in.
In October 2020, Wallen was disinvited from performing on “SNL” after videos surfaced of him partying and not adhering to social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. A few months later, he was invited back and even made fun of the ordeal in a skit.