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Published 10:53 07 Apr 2026 GMT
SNL star Chloe Fineman has been slammed after making a wild confession in a Vanity Fair interview that was later partially edited by the publication.
The 37-year-old comedian was joined by her fellow co-stars, Mikey Day, Sarah Sherman, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline, and James Austin Johnson, in a video titled: "SNL Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other."
The clip begins with Fineman asking her castmates to guess which job she was fired from and later re-hired by. They threw out several guesses, including a restaurant hostess or retail worker, which were ultimately wrong.
Fineman then eventually revealed that she was fired from her job as a camp counselor for 'pantsing' a boy.
The Dickinson actress, who was 16 at the time of firing, explained: "[The boy] would lift my shirt all the time. It was a different time."
"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," she continued.
"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," she revealed.
Variety reported parts of Fineman’s story were later cut from the published version of the video, including the detail that the boy was six years old, and the shots of the co-stars gasping and covering their faces as she tells her story.
In the unedited video, Fineman told her co-stars that the camper’s 'ding-a-ling was out,' to which Padilla replied: "Oh, honey, I think you’re on a list somewhere."
"He wasn’t wearing underpants, and then a giant school bus drove by," she also said in the original clip.
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The original clip has since spread across X, where viewers have expressed shock at Fineman’s attempt to present the story in a humorous light.
"A chick on SNL purposefully exposed a 6yr old's genitals to embarrass him at a day camp she worked at, and she's sharing this story?" one user wrote while resharing the clip via X.
A second person joked: "Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or Chloe Fineman why she was fired from summer camp.”
A third user shared a meme of Zendaya and Robert Pattinson from their dark comedy, The Drama, to react to the clip.
"I’m older than Chloe Fineman, and was also a summer camp counselor all through college," a fourth added.
"Some things were different back then, yes, but what was not different is that my a** would have been fired on the spot for doing what she did."
This is not the first time the actress has told this story. She also recounted it last May on the Jake Shane podcast, Therapuss, which is still on YouTube in full.
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