Kenan Thompson is speaking out after Morgan Wallen’s abrupt exit from the “Saturday Night Live” stage. 

A longtime veteran of the sketch comedy show, Thompson said he was just as confused as viewers when Wallen, the musical guest for Saturday’s show, fled immediately after the credits began to roll. 

“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,” Thompson told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Monday. “I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.”

It is traditional for guests — both hosts and musical acts — to stay on stage with the cast and hug it out after the show. Instead, Wallen embraced host Mikey Madison, then opted for a quick exodus, posting a snap of him on a plane shortly after with the caption, “Get me to God’s Country.” 

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“You see somebody before you get a chance to say ‘hi’ or say ‘good job’ or anything like that, they just dipping,” Thompson told the outlet. “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?”

Wallen, one of the most popular country acts du jour, already had a fraught relationship with the show. During the pandemic, a scheduled appearance on “SNL” was canceled after Wallen was photographed partying maskless. In December 2020, he finally made it to the Studio 8H stage, serving as a musical guest and starring in a sketch poking fun at the incident. 

Wallen’s Irish goodbye Saturday, however, had fans wondering whether bad blood remained. 

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“Seems like a complicated individual, I guess,” Thompson said, adding that Prince had done something similar when he appeared on the show. 

USA TODAY has reached out to Wallen’s rep for comment.

The comedian admitted though that Wallen’s post on social media later did ruffle his feathers a bit. 

“The ‘God’s country’ of it all is strange because it’s like, what are you trying to say?” he told EW. “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.”