01of 11SZASZA.ShutterstockThe musician (at the 2022 event) went in with high hopes but “snuck out the back” shortly after walking the red carpet because her anxiety made it impossible for her to enjoy the event.“I hated my outfit. That was another mental health thing,“she said in an interview with Finish Line Women’sCommunity Voicesseries. “You want to do your job, you want to show up, and all these people are excited for you to be there, but it’s like, ‘Damn, I don’t feel confident,’ or ‘I don’t feel comfortable.’ “In the end, “I just tiptoed a couple blocks and caught a yellow cab back to my hotel because I was just overwhelmed.”
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SZA
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The musician (at the 2022 event) went in with high hopes but “snuck out the back” shortly after walking the red carpet because her anxiety made it impossible for her to enjoy the event.
“I hated my outfit. That was another mental health thing,“she said in an interview with Finish Line Women’sCommunity Voicesseries. “You want to do your job, you want to show up, and all these people are excited for you to be there, but it’s like, ‘Damn, I don’t feel confident,’ or ‘I don’t feel comfortable.’ "
In the end, “I just tiptoed a couple blocks and caught a yellow cab back to my hotel because I was just overwhelmed.”
02of 11Billie EilishKevin Mazur/MG21/GettyThe star didn’thatethe Met Gala, exactly (as one of the 2021 co-chairs, she declared it “amazing” and “beautiful in there”) but she was candid about just how awkward it actually is once you get past the photographers.“The main thing that night made me think or feel was how famous people are just literally nobodies. Just randos, and it’s so weird,“Eilish said onThe Howard Stern Show.“I was like, ‘Wow, all these people are just somebody that’s in class with you,’ and you think this person’s kinda annoying, you really like this person, you get along with this person, and everybody’s just, like, embarrassed and insecure about what they’re doing and saying.”
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Billie Eilish
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The star didn’thatethe Met Gala, exactly (as one of the 2021 co-chairs, she declared it “amazing” and “beautiful in there”) but she was candid about just how awkward it actually is once you get past the photographers.
“The main thing that night made me think or feel was how famous people are just literally nobodies. Just randos, and it’s so weird,“Eilish said onThe Howard Stern Show.“I was like, ‘Wow, all these people are just somebody that’s in class with you,’ and you think this person’s kinda annoying, you really like this person, you get along with this person, and everybody’s just, like, embarrassed and insecure about what they’re doing and saying.”
03of 11Quannah ChasinghorseQuannah Chasinghorse.Taylor Hill/WireImageThe Indigenous model and climate change activist, whose heritage is Han Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota, is a rising fashion star butfelt like an outsider when she attended the Met Gala for the first time in 2021.“I remember standing there and looking at everyone and feeling so alone. Like, really, really lonely,“she told Insider. “No one knew me. No one cared to ask. People are there for themselves and it shows.”
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Quannah Chasinghorse
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The Indigenous model and climate change activist, whose heritage is Han Gwich’in and Oglala Lakota, is a rising fashion star butfelt like an outsider when she attended the Met Gala for the first time in 2021.
“I remember standing there and looking at everyone and feeling so alone. Like, really, really lonely,“she told Insider. “No one knew me. No one cared to ask. People are there for themselves and it shows.”
04of 11Lourdes LeonGettyMadonna’s daughter said she felt similarly outcast during her inaugural appearance at the fancy fête in 2021, despite being “grateful” for the invitation.“You’re just shoved into a room with all these famous people and you’re supposed to talk to them and be their friend, even though you don’t f—ing know them,“she said inInterviewmagazine. “I’m sure it’s fun if you’re someone who is friends with a lot of famous people, but I’m not. I didn’t know who the f— to talk to. I felt so awkward that I literally called my boyfriend [Jonathan Puglia] in the middle of it.”
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Madonna’s daughter said she felt similarly outcast during her inaugural appearance at the fancy fête in 2021, despite being “grateful” for the invitation.
“You’re just shoved into a room with all these famous people and you’re supposed to talk to them and be their friend, even though you don’t f—ing know them,“she said inInterviewmagazine. “I’m sure it’s fun if you’re someone who is friends with a lot of famous people, but I’m not. I didn’t know who the f— to talk to. I felt so awkward that I literally called my boyfriend [Jonathan Puglia] in the middle of it.”
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Ben Platt
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The star felt so awkward his first time attending, in 2017, that he took off before the night was over.
“You’re not allowed to bring a plus one — so the first time I went, I did a lap around the cocktails and tried to find somebody I knew and then failed and sort of left, and didn’t make it through the event because I was like, ‘I don’t really have anybody to talk to’,” he saidonThe Jess Cagle Show.
06of 11Zayn MalikGeorge Pimentel/WireImageIn his 2018 cover story withGQ,the singer (here with then-girlfriendGigi Hadidin 2016) explained why he would rather stay at home than participate in fashion’s biggest night.“The Met Gala is not necessarily anything that I ever knew about orwasabout,” he explained. “But my [former] stylist … would say to me, ‘This is really good for you to do.’ And no matter how strong you are mentally, you can always be swayed to do certain things. Now, it’s not something I would go to. I’d rather be sitting at my house, doing something productive, than dressing up in really expensive clothes and being photographed on a red carpet … To do the self-indulgentLook at me, I’m amazingthing on the red carpet, it’s not me.”
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Zayn Malik
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In his 2018 cover story withGQ,the singer (here with then-girlfriendGigi Hadidin 2016) explained why he would rather stay at home than participate in fashion’s biggest night.
“The Met Gala is not necessarily anything that I ever knew about orwasabout,” he explained. “But my [former] stylist … would say to me, ‘This is really good for you to do.’ And no matter how strong you are mentally, you can always be swayed to do certain things. Now, it’s not something I would go to. I’d rather be sitting at my house, doing something productive, than dressing up in really expensive clothes and being photographed on a red carpet … To do the self-indulgentLook at me, I’m amazingthing on the red carpet, it’s not me.”
07of 11Tina FeyMatt Baron/BEI/REX/ShutterstockDuring aninterviewwith formerLate Showhost David Letterman in 2010, Fey talked about her Met Gala experience and why she would never go again.“I have gone to it once and it is such a jerk parade,” the star explained while laughing along with the audience. “Clearly I’ll never go again but you go and it’s this beautiful space and it’s just every jerk from every walk of life is there wearing some stupid thing … You walk up these huge steps … and I went and I dragged my husband along with me too, which I’m still in trouble for.”
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Tina Fey
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During aninterviewwith formerLate Showhost David Letterman in 2010, Fey talked about her Met Gala experience and why she would never go again.
“I have gone to it once and it is such a jerk parade,” the star explained while laughing along with the audience. “Clearly I’ll never go again but you go and it’s this beautiful space and it’s just every jerk from every walk of life is there wearing some stupid thing … You walk up these huge steps … and I went and I dragged my husband along with me too, which I’m still in trouble for.”
08of 11Demi LovatoMichael Buckner/REX"This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met 😂😂😂,” Lovatocaptioned this 2016 photowith the following hashtags to truly hit their point home: #cool#sof-ckingawkward #notforme#sweatpants #forensicfiles#whatsgood.For followers who weren’t understanding their humor, Lovato added: “p.s. some of y’all need to learn how to take a joke.. I’m obviously laughing at the fact that 1. I look incredibly awkward and 2. That the shade being thrown in this picture actually gives me life 🙌🏼😂"In an interview withBillboardin 2018, Lovato also talked about how the event made them almost relapse.“I had a terrible experience,” Lovato told the music outlet. “This one celebrity was a complete bitch and was miserable to be around. It was very cliquey. I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink.”
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Demi Lovato
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“This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met 😂😂😂,” Lovatocaptioned this 2016 photowith the following hashtags to truly hit their point home: #cool#sof-ckingawkward #notforme#sweatpants #forensicfiles#whatsgood.
For followers who weren’t understanding their humor, Lovato added: “p.s. some of y’all need to learn how to take a joke.. I’m obviously laughing at the fact that 1. I look incredibly awkward and 2. That the shade being thrown in this picture actually gives me life 🙌🏼😂”
In an interview withBillboardin 2018, Lovato also talked about how the event made them almost relapse.
“I had a terrible experience,” Lovato told the music outlet. “This one celebrity was a complete bitch and was miserable to be around. It was very cliquey. I remember being so uncomfortable that I wanted to drink.”
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Lena Dunham
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TheGirlscreator spilled some tea in a2016 Lenny Letter interview with Amy Schumerabout her experience sitting next to New York Giants wide reciever Odell Beckham Jr. — though eventually ate her words.
“This felt especially intense with a handsome athlete as my dinner companion and a bunch of women I was sure he’d rather be seated with,” she continued. “But I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts. I feel terrible about it. Because after listening to lots of valid criticism, I see how unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to someone I don’t know AT ALL. Like, we have never met, I have no idea the kind of day he’s having or what his truth is.
In 2019, Dunham attended the gala with pal and formerGirlscostar Jemima Kirke.
10of 11Gwyneth PaltrowRabbani and Solimene Photography/WireImageThe actress has had a love-hate relationship with the event and was particularly turned off in 2013 (pictured) when she toldUSA Todaythat she was “never going again.““It was so un-fun,” Paltrow said. “It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.“Paltrow must have had a change of heart whenshe decided to go again in 2017wearing a pale pink sequin, one-shoulder Calvin Klein dress, paired with $2.5 million Harry Winston diamond earrings. She returned in 2019, too.
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Gwyneth Paltrow
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The actress has had a love-hate relationship with the event and was particularly turned off in 2013 (pictured) when she toldUSA Todaythat she was “never going again.”
“It was so un-fun,” Paltrow said. “It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all.”
Paltrow must have had a change of heart whenshe decided to go again in 2017wearing a pale pink sequin, one-shoulder Calvin Klein dress, paired with $2.5 million Harry Winston diamond earrings. She returned in 2019, too.
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Tim Gunn
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Gunn continued: “Well, all hell broke loose. It was insane. So we’ve had an open war ever since.”
source: people.com
