Chloe Fineman Has ‘No Regrets’ About Revealing Elon Musk Made Her Cry

Chloe Fineman is sticking by her comments calling out Elon Musk for making her cry when he hosted Saturday Night Live in 2021.

Fineman, 36, took her Instagram story on Tuesday, January 21, to write: “Remember when I got in trouble for calling out mr nazi salute? Ya, no regrets.” (Fineman was referencing Musk’s apparent Nazi salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.)

The SNL actress first admitted in November that she was the one Bowen Yang was talking about in an August interview on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen when he said a “male host” made a cast member cry.

“OK, I just saw some news article about Elon Musk being like butt-hurt about ‘SNL’ and his impression, but I’m like, you’re clearly watching the show. Like, what are you talking about?” Fineman said in a since-deleted video she posted to TikTok. “And I’m like, you know what? I’m gonna come out and say at long last that I’m the cast member that he made cry. And he’s the host that made someone cry. Maybe there’s others.”

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“I’m like, no, if you’re gonna go on your platform and be rude like, guess what?” she continued. “You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing the sketch, I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you have any questions, and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It’s not funny.’ I waited for you to be like, ‘Haha, JK.’ No. Then you started pawing through my script being like, ‘I didn’t laugh once. Not one time.’”

Fineman concluded her video by saying she had the last laugh.

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“Cut to the sketch [that] made it on [TV] and it was fine and I actually had a really good time, and I thought you’re really funny in it, but have a little manners here, sir,” she said.

Yang had her back, not mentioning Fineman’s name in interviews, but defending her before she revealed herself.

“Imagine you stay up until 4 a.m. writing a sketch and then the host is like, ‘I f—ing hate this,’” said Yang in a September appearance on the “Fly on the Wall” podcast. “Your nerves are frayed, you’re going to have some weird, bizarre emotional response.”

Musk responded to Fineman’s TikTok via X shortly after, writing, “Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried. I was like damn my ‘SNL’ appearance is going to be so fucking unfunny that it will make a crackhead sober!! But then it worked out in the end.”