{"id":159772,"date":"2025-04-02T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/why-morgan-wallen-walked-off-snl-set-before-shows-end\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:22:33","slug":"why-morgan-wallen-walked-off-snl-set-before-shows-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/why-morgan-wallen-walked-off-snl-set-before-shows-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Morgan Wallen Walked Off SNL Set Before Show&#8217;s End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Country singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/morgan-wallen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Morgan Wallen<\/strong><\/a> had a simple reason for abruptly walking off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/tags\/saturday-night-live-15702\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em><\/a> set before the show\u2019s end credits on March 29, a source exclusively tells <em>Life &amp; Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMorgan is not a people pleaser. I doubt he meant to make a statement by walking off the stage, but he just does what he wants,\u201d the insider says. \u201cAnd he wanted to leave. Honestly, if he stayed and partied with everyone at the afterparties, it probably would have done a lot worse!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morgan, 31, served as the musical guest during the March 29 episode of <em>SNL<\/em>. While it\u2019s typical for guests on the show to stick around during the end credits and mingle with the other stars, the \u201cThinkin\u2019 Bout Me\u2019\u201d hitmaker was seen making a quick exit at the end of the episode, which was met with a wave of backlash from many viewers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would he book the appearance if he doesn\u2019t want to be there?\u201d one fan wrote on social media, while another person called the incident \u201cincredibly odd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, other fans found the moment humorous, with one person writing, \u201cMorgan Wallen said, \u2018I didn\u2019t want to be here either.\u2019 That\u2019s exactly what the show gets for having him in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After footage of the \u201cCowgirls\u201d singer walking off the stage went viral online, lip reader <strong>Nicola Hickling<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/lip-reader-reveals-what-morgan-wallen-said-before-his-snl-walk-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzed Morgan\u2019s final exchange with <em>SNL<\/em>\u2019s host for the night<\/a>, actress <strong>Mikey Madison<\/strong>, and shared her findings with <em>Life &amp; Style<\/em> on behalf of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slingo.com\/en-ROW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slingo<\/a>. Nicola believes Morgan told the <em>Anora<\/em> star, 26, \u201cThank you all so much. I had a wonderful time. Thank you all, mwah mwah mwah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikey then apparently told Morgan, \u201cChatting to you was really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.75%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"photo-credit\"><span class=\"credit\">Will Heath\/NBC<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>SNL<\/em> star <strong>Colin Jost<\/strong> also seemingly said about the CMA Award winner, \u201cYou gotta remember how he is feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Morgan has not directly addressed his abrupt exit, he seemingly hinted at wanting an escape by writing on his Instagram Stories shortly after the show, \u201cGet me to God\u2019s country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same phrase later appeared on merch advertised on the official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DH65eQMuXZ4\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Club Wallen Instagram<\/a> page on Tuesday, April 1, including a T-shirt and two hats. Many fans praised the marketing move in the comments of the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cY\u2019all turned it into merch i LOVE it,\u201d one fan wrote, while another called the move \u201cgenius.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBYE this is funny,\u201d a third fan commented.<\/p>\n<p>While Morgan has yet to speak out about the viral incident, longtime <em>SNL<\/em> star <strong>Kenan Thompson<\/strong> shared his thoughts on the matter in an interview with <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> on Monday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what goes through people\u2019s minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don\u2019t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way,\u201d Kenan, 46, said.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian wondered if maybe Morgan, who reportedly turned down an opportunity to appear in a sketch during his appearance on SNL, had to \u201cgo to the potty or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see somebody before you get a chance to say hi or say good job or anything like that, they just dipping,\u201d Kenan recalled. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a spike in the norm. We\u2019re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody\u2019s saying, \u2018Good job, good job, good job.\u2019 So when there\u2019s a departure from that, it\u2019s like, \u2018Hmm, I wonder what that\u2019s about?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifeandstylemag.com\/posts\/why-morgan-wallen-walked-off-snl-set-before-shows-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country singer Morgan Wallen had a simple reason for abruptly walking off the Saturday Night Live set before the show\u2019s end credits on March 29, a source exclusively tells Life &amp; Style. \u201cMorgan is not a people pleaser. I doubt he meant to make a statement by walking off the stage, but he just does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-159772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}