A Saturday Night Live star is facing backlash after recounting what some viewers have called a ‘disturbing’ experience from a teenage job that involved a six-year-old.
Chloe Fineman, 37, joined the cast of the long-running sketch series SNL in 2019 and recently appeared in an interview alongside Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline, and James Austin Johnson.
The Vanity Fair video was framed around a ‘How Well Do You Know Each Other’ game, with cast members quizzed on personal details and past experiences to see who knew whom best.
One clip now circulating online shows Fineman prompting the group to identify a job she once lost — and later got back — offering an extra “bonus point” if they could explain what led to her being fired in the first place.
She then shared the answer, saying she was dismissed from a camp counsellor role when she was 16.
Explaining what happened, she told her castmates: “I pantsed a boy.”
Padilla immediately responded: “Oh, honey, I think you’re on a list somewhere.”
Fineman went on to describe what she said led up to the incident: “He would lift my shirt all the time.”
She added: “He would be like: ‘Hey, could I have a hug?’ And then I’d go to hug him and he’d lift my shirt, like a d**k.
“And then I was like: ‘I’m going to get back at you.’ And so we were on a hike, and I was like: ‘Hey, Ollie, go look over there. It’s a hawk.’ He looked and then I yanked his pants down, and then I was fired.”
For those who haven’t seen the clip: pic.twitter.com/4ND1diftfk
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Fineman also claimed the child wasn’t ‘wearing underpants’ and that his ‘little ding-a-ling was out’.
As the group reacted to the story, Fineman added: “It was a different time.”
After the clip spread, people on social media responded with disbelief, with several questioning why the anecdote was shared publicly.
One wrote: “Can’t comprehend how any public figure in 2026 would share this story proudly and publicly, regardless of whether or not they personally think it’s an issue.”
Another posted on X: “This is such a disturbing thing to admit in an interview and omg the uncomfortable laughter among the cast mates, I feel so bad for them.”
Reflecting on her comment on it, a third wrote: “I am actually stunned she pulled the ‘it was a different time’ line here.”
Someone else wrote simply: “This is so much worse than I thought.”