7 celebs who threw shade at the Met Gala
'I left the second I could. We were dressed up like a bunch of f***ing assholes'
Everyone makes a big deal out of the ultra-exclusive Met Gala: Only the most A-list celebs get an invite to the annual fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they show off their OTT ensembles on the red carpet. But these five stars are so over it — and (most of them) have pretty much vowed to never return.
Zayn Malik, 2018
Zayn attended the Gala in 2016 alongside girlfriend Gigi Hadid, who has attended the Met numerous times, but has since slammed the event as "self indulgent" in GQ. He commented:
"The Met Gala is not necessarily anything that I ever knew about or was about. 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-indulgent "Look at me, I'm amazing" thing on the red carpet, it's not me."
Demi Lovato, 2016
One day after her first Met Gala, Demi posted an awkward photo to Instagram of herself standing to the side of designer Jeremy Scott and Nicki Minaj, writing, "This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met. #cool #sof*ckingawkward #notforme #sweatpants #forensicfiles #whatsgood."
Almost two years later, she expanded on why she'd most likely never be back in an interview with Billboard: "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."
As soon as she could, Demi, who has famously opened up about her journey to sobriety, says she went to an AA meeting. She still had some of her accessories from the event on. "I changed my clothes, but I still had my diamonds on — millions of dollars of diamonds on in an AA meeting. And I related more to the homeless people in that meeting who struggled with the same struggles that I deal with than the people at the Met Gala — fake and sucking the fashion industry's dick."
Amy Schumer, 2016
After her first — and likely last — Met Gala experience in 2016, Amy told Howard Stern that attending the annual event "felt like a punishment... I left the second I could. I left earlier than I should have been allowed... It's people doing an impression of having a conversation... I don't like the farce."
She added, "We're dressed up like a bunch of fucking assholes."
Lena Dunham, 2016
Lena Dunham later interviewed Schumer for Lenny Letter, and revealed she left the event right behind Amy, adding, "I attempted to grind my ass on Michael B. Jordan for an additional twenty minutes and then left right after you.
She added that she was sitting next to footballer Odell Beckham Jr, and his behaviour didn't exactly make her want to stay.
"It was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, ‘That’s a marshmallow. That’s a child. That’s a dog.’ It wasn’t mean — he just seemed confused,” she says. "The vibe was very much like, ‘Do I want to f–k it? Is it wearing a … yep, it’s wearing a tuxedo. I’m going to go back to my cell phone.’ It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, ‘This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.'"
Gwyneth Paltrow, 2013
Gwyneth had such a bad time at the 2013 Met Gala that she told USA Today, "I'm never going again. It was so un-fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I did not enjoy it at all."
She may have had enough time to heal, though, as she did, in fact, attend the event in 2017. She even posted a throwback picture of her very first Met experience on Instagram to express just how excited she was to be back: "My first ever Met Ball in 1995. #calvinklein #fullcirclemomentcomingup."
Tina Fey, 2010
Tina wasn't excited about her 2010 Met Gala, later telling David Letterman on The Late Show, that it was "such a jerk parade... if you had a million arms and all the people you would punch in the whole world, they were all there."
Tim Gunn
The Project Runway host has a long-running feud with the mastermind behind the event, Anna Wintour, so he's been "disinvited" for life. Way harsh.
"I was asked what is the most unforgettable thing I've ever seen in fashion," he said on E!'s Fashion Police, "and I said, 'It's easy. It was watching Anna Wintour being carried down five flights of stairs by two bodyguards — to big hulking men — from a fashion show... All hell broke loose... It was insane. We've had an open war ever since."
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