EXCLUSIVE SNL staff finally break silence to reveal Morgan Wallen’s insane backstage ‘tantrum’… and the incident that triggered his viral walk-off | HO

Furious Saturday Night Live insiders have broken their silence about Morgan Wallen’s ‘bad behavior’ after he walked off the comedy show last weekend.

The country singer, 31, had performed his hits I’m The Problem and Just In Case on Saturday’s episode. But his appearance ended abruptly when he bolted off the stage as the closing credits started to roll.

His controversial departure, leaving guest host and Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison alone on stage, upset a decades-long tradition of celebrity guests mingling onstage until the cameras cut away.

Now an SNL staffer has told the Daily Mail that Wallen was ‘completely disrespectful’ throughout his time on the show – and they’re blaming his ‘MAGA’ politics.

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

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

Morgan Wallen performed his hits I’m The Problem and Just In Case on Saturday Night Live last weekend

The country singer bolted offstage as the closing credits started to roll, leaving guest host and Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison (right) alone on stage

Wallen had reportedly already angered staff when he refused to appear in a skit about long lines in New York City, forcing them to replace him with singer Joe Jonas at the last minute.Adding insult to injury, he then skipped the traditional SNL party after filming and headed directly to the airport. There, he 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 was a total slap in the face for the folks who work so hard on the show,’ our source said.

Veteran SNL comedian Kenan Thompson also criticized Wallen’s post, saying on Monday: ‘The “God’s country” of it all is strange. 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?

‘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.’

The 31-year-old, pictured with his son Indigo Wilder, had reportedly already angered staff when he refused to appear in a skit about long lines in New York City

He then skipped the traditional SNL afterparty, headed directly to the airport, and posted a picture of his private jet on Instagram with the caption: ‘Get me to God’s Country’ (pictured)

But our insiders suggest, the clash may have been due to Wallen’s Republican views which conflicted with the cast’s liberal sympathies.

SNL was widely criticized for soft-peddling their mockery of Joe Biden’s administration until his disastrous election debate against Donald Trump last June.

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.

On Saturday, SNL opened the show with a skit about ‘Signal-gate’ when top defense officials accidentally added a journalist into 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.

Our source claims the skit may have angered Wallen, who has never publicly endorsed Trump but has become popular amongst MAGA supporters.

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

Wallen’s representatives did not respond to our requests for comment. However, a separate source has told the Daily Mail that there was ‘no tantrum’ and that Wallen ‘is not banned’ from returning to the show.

Wallen’s mugshot from May 2020, when he was kicked out of a bar in Nashville and arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct
Last year, he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment for throwing a chair from the rooftop of a six-story bar in Nashville

Wallen has been arrested twice – first in May 2020 (left) and again last year (right)

However, this was not Wallen’s first brush with controversy.

In May 2020, he was kicked out of a bar in Nashville and arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct.

He was released a few hours later, and was invited to host SNL five months later. However, his appearance was cancelled at the last minute after he was pictured flouting Covid restrictions while partying without a face mask.

Wallen publicly apologized, 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.

But then, in January 2021, scandal erupted again when a video surfaced of Wallen drunkenly shouting the N-word at friends outside his home.

He tried to dismiss the slur, telling Good Morning America: ‘I was around some of my friends, and we say dumb stuff together. In our minds, it’s playful… that sounds ignorant, but that’s really where it came from.’

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

Whatever difficulties Wallen finds himself in next, one thing’s likely: It won’t happen live on SNL.