SNL staff finally break silence to reveal Morgan Wallen's insane backstage 'tantrum'... and the incident that triggered his viral walk-off

Outrage over country singer Morgan Wallen’s controversial exit from the Saturday Night Live stage is boiling over as furious show insiders claim there was even more bad behavior going on behind the scenes.

Wallen, 31, was the show’s musical guest this past weekend, playing his recent hits ‘I’m the Problem’ and ‘Just in Case’. But his appearance ended abruptly after he appeared to storm off SNL’s iconic Rock Center set the second closing credits started to roll.

Wallen bolted straight past the cameras and up through the audience, leaving guest host and Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison alone on stage to congratulate the cast.

The hasty exit apparently upset a decades-long tradition of celeb guests mingling on-stage until the cameras cut away.

But now an SNL staffer has spoken to the Daily Mail and revealed that there were other ‘completely disrespectful’ actions by Wallen – and they’re blaming his ‘MAGA’ politics.

‘He was unprofessional the entire time and came in with a chip on his shoulder,’ the staffer said. ‘He thought that he was this massive star that deserved to be treated as if they were lucky to have him and when he wasn’t getting that he threw a tantrum.’

Wallen bolted straight past the cameras and up through the audience, leaving guest host and Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison (right) alone on stage to congratulate the cast.

‘SNL has never had anyone exit before the credits and this really pissed a lot of people off,’ they claimed. ‘But all it did was get him blackballed from ever appearing on SNL again.’

Page Six reported that Wallen refused to appear in a skit about waiting in long lines in New York City, forcing them to recruit singer Joe Jonas to replace him at the last minute.

Adding insult to injury, Wallen skipped the traditional SNL afterparty, headed directly to a nearby airport, and then posted a picture of his private jet on Instagram with the caption, ‘Get me to God’s Country.’

For some SNL cast members, that was the final straw.

‘His post right after was a total slap in the face for the folks who work so hard on the show,’ our source said.

The Insta-insult drove veteran SNL comedian Kenan Thompson to speak out on Monday: ‘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.’

‘I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,’ Thompson added. ‘I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.’

Perhaps, insiders suggest, Wallen’s political views conflicted with the cast’s well-known liberal sympathies.

SNL was widely criticized for soft-peddling their mockery of the Biden administration up until Joe Biden’s disastrous debate against President Donald Trump in June 2024.

After that, SNL took a harder – and funnier – line against the then 81-year-old Democrat. But Trump’s White House has not enjoyed a similar honeymoon period.

Perhaps, insiders suggest, Wallen’s political views conflicted with the cast’s well-known liberal sympathies. (Pictured: Wallen with his son Indigo Wilder).

On Saturday, SNL opened the show with a satirical skit focused on the controversy that engulfed the White House last week after top Trump defense officials mistakenly added a journalist into a group chat discussing secret plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The segment showed a drunken Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (played by comedian Andrew Dismukes) accidentally sending war plans to three teenage girls.

The suggestion is that the skit may have angered Wallen.

‘Morgan wears his political affiliation like a badge of honor but did not talk about it outright,’ our SNL source said. ‘He is MAGA and everyone knows this. But he never praised Trump or anything like that.’

Wallen’s representatives did not respond to our requests for comment, but Variety magazine has cited anonymous sources who say that Wallen’s walk-off was simply an ‘oops’ moment.

Regardless, this was not Wallen’s only brush with controversy.

The very first time he was invited to host SNL, in October 2020, his appearance was cancelled at the last minute after video surfaced showing him partying and ignoring social distancing edicts at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Wallen issued an apology at the time, saying ‘my actions this past weekend were pretty shortsighted and they have obviously affected my long-term goals and my dreams.’

He was forgiven and invited back on SNL just two months later.

In December 2024, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in Nashville in April of that year.

But another month later, in January 2021, he found himself mired in scandal once again when a video of Wallen drunkenly shouting the N-word at friends outside his home went viral.

He tried to explain away the slur in an interview with Good Morning America, saying he ‘was around some of my friends, and we say dumb stuff together, and it was — in our minds, it’s playful… that sounds ignorant, but it — that’s really where it came from… and it’s wrong.’

Then, in December 2024, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in Nashville in April of that year.

Whatever difficulties Wallen find’s himself in next, one thing’s for certain: it won’t happen live on SNL. Because, as our insider put it, Wallen will ‘never be welcomed back.’