E News! reports exclusively that Lorne Michaels has finally broken his silence regarding Kanye West's reported tandrum on the set of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. has seen it all in his many years at Saturday Night Live.
When Kanye West freaked out after his set had been tampered with on the Feb. 13th episode, Michaels claims he wasn't worried about whether the show would go on. Four days later, though, The New York Post's Page Six released an audio clip of the rapper ranting in his dressing room. "Look at that s--t. They took my f--kin' stage off SNL without asking me and now I'm bummed," West said, threatening to cancel. "Now I ain't gonna do this. We're breaking the motherf--king Internet." West calmed down and went on to perform "Low Lights," "Highlights" and "Ultralight Beams." At the time of the audio leak, a source told E! NEWS that West "did not yell at SNLstaff. This audio was secretly recorded while he was venting his frustration in a private moment with his team. He found out his stage design was changed and taken apart under the direction of the show's lighting director without anyone's approval. He had spent an entire day rehearsing and a lot of hard work into the performance. Dramatic set changes were made 30 minutes before going live. It should be understandable why he was upset after being completely blindsided." A rep for SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE did not return requests for comment on the audio leak.Image courtesy of NBC
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