Morgan Wallen’s early Saturday Night Live exit made headlines over the weekend, and now longtime cast member Kenan Thompson is weighing in.

“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way,” Thompson told Entertainment Weekly. “I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something.”

The moment happened at the end of the episode, in which Wallen appeared as musical guest to perform a pair of songs from his forthcoming album, I’m the Problem. As is customary, Wallen joined the SNL cast onstage alongside host Mikey Madison to thank viewers for tuning in. Typically, the week’s guests hug and celebrate with the cast members onstage for a few moments before the episode ends.

However, Wallen was seen whispering something into Madison’s ear, giving her a hug and abruptly walking off the stage at Studio 8H. Shortly after, Wallen shared a photo on his Instagram Stories from his private plane, with the caption “Get me to God’s country” written over an image of the runway.

“It’s definitely a spike in the norm,” Thompson said. “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 added that it’s not the first time a musical guest left the stage suddenly. “Prince did the same thing,” he recalled. “I’m not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we weren’t surprised because Prince was notoriously kind of standoffish. It’s just how he was. So we just thought like, ‘Okay, now he’s gone back into fantasyland.’”

He continued, “But Saturday I guess it was just different because it just felt so abrupt. And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was just like, oh wow, that was pretty visible. You know what I’m saying? It was a pretty visible thing.”

Thompson also weighed in on Wallen’s Instagram Story post. “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,” he said. “But whatever. Moving on, we got a new show. We got Jack Black this week. 

Wallen has yet to explain his side of the story publicly.





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