Morgan Wallen made all kinds of headlines for his behavior on the “Saturday Night Live” stage this weekend.
The country music star was the musical guest for the Saturday, March 29 episode of the comedy sketch show, airing on NBC. Wallen, 31, performed two songs from his upcoming album, “I’m The Problem,” before quickly departing the stage as the end credits rolled on NBC.
“Saturday Night Live” fans accused Wallen of being “disrespectful” for leaving while the end credits were rolling. Typically, the celebrity guest host, the musical guest and the cast and crew hang out and chat on stage while the credits roll.
Morgan Wallen dipped out early.
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Wallen said a couple of words to guest host Mikey Madison, who starred in Academy Award-winning “Anora,” before leaving the stage. He walked right past the audience toward the exits before hopping onto a private jet home. Wallen posted from his private jet, saying “get me to God’s country,” seemingly taking a shot at “SNL” and New York City.
But what did Wallen say on stage to Madison before departing from the show?
A lip reader has attempted to reveal what he said.
“Thank you all so much,” he said, lip reader Nicola Hickling told UNILAD. “I had a wonderful time.”
Madison then replied: “Chatting to you was really good.”
The lip reader also tried to decipher what Colin Jost said to someone else on stage as Wallen departed.
“You gotta remember how he is feeling,” the 42-year-old “Weekend Update” co-host said, per the lip reader.
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE — Episode 1879 — Pictured: Musical guest Morgan Wallen, host Mikey Madison, and Chloe Fineman during Promos in Studio 8H on Thursday, March 27, 2025 — (Photo by: Rosalind O’Connor/NBC via Getty Images)
Longtime “SNL” star Kenan Thompson, meanwhile, wasn’t happy with Wallen’s “God’s country” post.
“What are you trying to say?” he said to Entertainment Weekly.
“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… I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something,” Thompson added. “It’s definitely a spike in the norm. 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?”
“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.”
Wallen, outside of his cryptic social media posts, hasn’t said much about his time on the show.
