Morgan Wallen abruptly walks off ‘SNL’ earlier than present’s finish

Morgan Wallen was seen abruptly strolling off Saturday Evening Reside earlier than the top of the present – and viewers took discover.

The nation singer was the most recent musical visitor on the present, which aired final Saturday (March 29) with Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison as its featured host.

Throughout the credit score roll – which normally sees the SNL solid rejoice the top of the present with each host and musical visitor – Wallen was proven taking his go away off-camera after solely greeting Madison goodbye.

Thanks, Mikey Madison and @MorganWallen! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/FDlInhhHqb

— Saturday Evening Reside – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 30, 2025

Throughout the present, Wallen carried out two songs off his upcoming fourth album ‘I’m The Downside’. He was current with the solid and host to bid viewers goodbye on the finish of the episode, which is customary for the long-running sketch comedy present.

Wallen then whispers one thing in Madison’s ear earlier than giving her a pleasant hug and strolling off the stage with out acknowledging the solid. Wallen – who relies in Nashville, Tennessee – then posted an Instagram Story with an image of his non-public jet and a caption that learn “Get me to God’s nation”.

Viewers rapidly took to social media to interpret Wallen’s sudden exit as a snub in direction of the solid. One social media person famous that Wallen was standing with Madison at an unusually nice distance from the solid. “Am I lacking one thing? The solid seems to be standing fairly far again from the host and musical visitor. The entire thing appears odd,” they tweeted.

“Darn, you’ll be able to inform from the vibe ‘this was one of many dangerous ones.’”, another user wrote. A Variety report shared that sources near Wallen preserve the singer had fun on the present, which is filmed in New York, and that his exit and Instagram publish weren’t meant to be a slight in direction of its solid.

Wallen stays a controversial determine footage of him utilizing a racial slur surfaced on-line, inflicting him to be dropped by a variety of radio stations in addition to his document label, Huge Loud.

Regardless of this, gross sales for his album ‘Harmful’ surged, and Wallen maintained the Quantity One spot on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for a record-breaking ten weeks. Wallen mentioned he was “embarrassed and sorry” by his actions, and requested followers to not defend him.

Previous to that, the Tennessee nation star broke CDC pointers for the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020, which noticed his deliberate debut on SNL cancelled. He did go on to carry out on the present two months later and joked about partying with out social distancing throughout a sketch.

Since January, Wallen has been teasing and releasing tracks from his upcoming album, which is due for launch on Might 16. Alongside the 2 he carried out final night time, he’s additionally launched ‘Superman’, ‘Smile’ and ‘I’m a Little Loopy’.

It’s thought that the title of Wallen’s forthcoming album is in reference to a few of his public scandals in recent times. Along with the 2021 scandal, it was reported final April that the singer had been charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and one depend of disorderly conduct after throwing a chair off a rooftop bar in Tennessee.