Please cast your poor, tired mind back to 2017 (almost impossible, I know), aka the fated year when Kesha ran into Jerry Seinfeld on the red carpet and he straight-up refused to hug her.
If youâd like to feel levels of cringe you never thought possible, watch the below videoâbut it basically consists of Kesha running up to Jerry and saying, âIâm Kesha, I love you so muchâŠcan I give you a hug?â and Jerry responding, âNo thanks.â Oh, and he then tells the person interviewing him, âI donât know who that was.â
Jerry later told Extra, âWhen you get to be my age and youâve done a couple things, you have your own reality. In my reality, I donât hug a total stranger. I have to meet someone, say hello. I gotta start somewhere. Hug is not first moment of a human, two humans. I never did that.â
But apparently, the moment was a huge bummer for Kesha. Speaking to The Best Show With Tom Scharpling, Kesha explained that she is a huge Seinfeld fanâto the point where she carried her DVDs of the show âaround the world internationally.â
As she put it, âWhen it got bumpy on planes, I would pop in Seinfeld and I would just be like âEverythingâs okay in the worldâ and watch my buddy Jerry. So then I get to the fucking charity event, and I got really excited because he brings me peace and love and all things good in the universe, and then he didnât hug me in front of cameras. And it was the most depressing and hilarious but also so sadâit was, like, the saddest moment of my life.â
Gonna need Jerry to give Kesha a hug ASAP.





