13 Celebs Who Had A Realllly Crappy Time At The Met Gala

For galore people, attending the Met Gala would beryllium a imagination travel true. However, for immoderate who've really gotten the highly sought-after invite, the acquisition was amazingly disappointing.

Here are 13 celebs who shared their atrocious Met Gala experiences:

1. Tina Fey attended the 2010 Met Gala. Appearing connected the Late Show with David Letterman 5 years later, she said, "It is specified a jerk parade. Like, you cannot even...It is truthful unbelievable. And then, clearly, I'll ne'er spell again, but you go, and you spell into this beauteous space, and it's conscionable each jerk from each locomotion of beingness is there, wearing, like, immoderate anserine thing."

"And you locomotion up these immense steps, and I went, and I dragged my hubby on with maine too, which I'm still, uh, successful occupation for...We locomotion down this big, agelong hallway, and we were walking astir 10 feet down this precise famous, famously mean manner designer...We walked into just...just a fart cloud. This celebrated man, conscionable the astir toxic, toxic gas," she said.

Watch her hilariously recount her horrible nighttime astatine the Met below, starting astatine the 1:43 mark:

2. SZA didn't bask the 2022 Met Gala due to the fact that she felt "overwhelmed" and ended up leaving early. She told Finish Line's Community Voices, "I hated my outfit. That was different intelligence wellness thing. You privation to bash your job, you privation to amusement up, and each these radical are excited for you to beryllium there, but it's like, 'Damn, I don't consciousness confident,' oregon 'I don't consciousness comfortable,' oregon it's like, 'Oh, if my formal doesn't fit…,' and past there's each this weird comparison, and it's truly unhealthy. And it's like, damn, immoderate people, similar Lizzo, tin person a truly bully clip careless of what is happening."

"For me, it's like, I snuck retired the backmost arsenic soon as Lenny Kravitz hit the signifier due to the fact that I was feeling precise like, 'Whoa, my anxiety's going crazy.' So overmuch truthful that I couldn't locomotion down the main steps to exit. I took a cab. I walked similar 3 metropolis blocks with nary shoes on…I conscionable tiptoed a mates blocks and caught a yellowish cab backmost to my edifice due to the fact that I was conscionable overwhelmed. I had excessively overmuch anxiousness to hold for my cab successful beforehand of the assemblage and instrumentality pictures and each those things. I didn't privation to bash that. So I was looking similar a small soiled Cinderella moving distant with my shoes," she said.

3. Demi Lovato "had a unspeakable experience" astatine the 2016 Met Gala. Two years later, they told Billboard, "This 1 personage was a implicit bitch and was miserable to beryllium around. It was precise cliquey. I retrieve being truthful uncomfortable that I wanted to drink." They texted their manager and past headed to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

"I changed my clothes, but I inactive had my diamonds connected — millions of dollars of diamonds connected successful an AA meeting. And I related much to the stateless radical successful that gathering who struggled with the aforesaid struggles that I woody with than the radical astatine the Met Gala — fake and sucking the manner industry's dick," she said.

4. Quannah Chasinghorse told Insider that the 2021 Met Gala was "just specified a weird abstraction to beryllium in." She said, "I retrieve lasting determination and looking astatine everyone and feeling truthful alone. Like, really, truly lonely."

"No 1 knew me. No 1 cared to ask. People are determination for themselves, and it shows," she said.

She besides acceptable that her archetypal excitement astatine being invited wore disconnected arsenic the nighttime went connected because, arsenic 1 of few Indigenous radical successful attendance, she felt the  "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" held a antithetic meaning to her than astir of the different attendees.

She said, "No mode americium I celebrating America. If I were to observe anything, it would beryllium my Indigenous roots, my Indigeneity, who I am. Because of what America did to my people, I americium arrogant to beryllium present today."

5. Following the 2013 Met Gala, Gwyneth Paltrow told USA Today, "I'm ne'er going again. It was truthful un-fun. It was boiling. I did not bask it astatine all."

She besides told The Kyle and Jackie O Show, "Do you privation maine to beryllium honest? It sucked. It seems similar it's the champion happening successful the world, you ever think, 'Oh my god, it's gonna beryllium truthful glamorous and astonishing and you're going to spot each these people' and past you get determination and it's truthful blistery and it's truthful crowded and everyone's pushing you...I deliberation we're each a spot aged to formal up punk [which was the theme]. I conscionable went arsenic benignant of normal."

However, she ended up attending the Met Gala 2 much times – successful 2017 and 2019.

6. At the 2006 Met Gala, John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) was reportedly truthful huffy that his assigned spot was astatine the extremity of a agelong array that helium stormed retired of the shot not once, but twice, and swore astatine Met staff.

After a portion helium reportedly sat down, and Anna Wintour herself came implicit to soothe him.

7. At the 2018 Met Gala, Selena Gomez had an infamous self-tanner mishap. In 2021, she told Vogue, "I was getting ready, and we wanted to adhd immoderate color. So [I] enactment connected immoderate of this tanning lotion and it looked truly beauteous and precise even. As the evening kept going on, it was getting a small darker and darker, and I didn't announcement it. I'm astatine the Met Gala — fundamentally 1 of the astir prestigious, beauteous events — and I'm walking, trying to look each beautiful, and I look astatine a photograph of myself erstwhile I beryllium down, and I americium wholly orange."

She continued, "I was like, 'This is going to beryllium unspeakable due to the fact that I'm going to get eaten live astir this.'...I had my information instrumentality a video of maine due to the fact that my archetypal absorption was conscionable to get the hellhole retired of there, and so, I'm moving to my car. I'm virtually conscionable hauling ass to my car and past gonna enactment it online. I was saying this is my absorption aft seeing my Met Gala photos."

8. Jennifer Garner went to the 2007 Met Gala. In 2023, she told Vogue, "I recovered it a small scary, truthful I haven’t been back."

9. On Instagram Live, Lizzo described her acquisition astatine the 2022 Met Gala. She said, "There's a agelong fucking line. I'm taking the glamour distant from it, but it's true. You've gotta wait. So you're waiting, and that's the hardest part. I was sweating successful a big-ass coat; my feet were hurting. I was like, 'Bitch? Can we get immoderate chairs oregon immoderate drinks oregon immoderate hors d'oeuvres?'"

She continued, "They were being truly stingy with the liquor that night. He was like, 'Red oregon achromatic wine?' And I was like, 'Tequila! Do you cognize what I've been through? Do you cognize however galore hours I've been successful this corset? How agelong I've been successful these damn shoes? Tequila!'"

She besides said the photographers ruined her planned flute performance. She said, "I had this program to play the flute and bash the full intro [of a classical piece], but I got nervous, and I lone played it erstwhile due to the fact that each the photographers were heckling me. They were like, 'You're putting america to slumber with the flute!' I was like, 'Okay?' In my mind, I thought everyone was going to beryllium transfixed. So I lone played it once, lone the archetypal fractional of it. Then I posed and got the photos."

10. Zayn Malik attended the 2016 Met Gala with his then-partner, Gigi Hadid. Two years later, helium told GQ, "The Met Gala is not needfully thing that I ever knew astir oregon was about. But my [former] stylist…would accidental to me, 'This is truly bully for you to do.' And nary substance however beardown you are mentally, you tin ever beryllium swayed to bash definite things. Now, it's not thing I would spell to. I'd alternatively beryllium sitting astatine my house, doing thing productive, than dressing up successful truly costly apparel and being photographed connected a reddish carpet.… To bash the self-indulgent Look astatine me, I'm amazing happening connected the reddish carpet, it's not me."

He besides said, "I did go, but I didn't spell determination to beryllium like, 'Yo, instrumentality maine serious.' I was taking the piss! I went determination arsenic my favorite Mortal Kombat character, Jax.

11. Reflecting connected her 2016 Met Gala Experience successful her Lenny Letter newsletter, Lena Dunham said, "I was sitting adjacent to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was truthful astonishing due to the fact that it was similar helium looked astatine maine and helium determined I was not the signifier of a pistillate by his standards. He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean — helium conscionable seemed confused. The vibe was precise overmuch like, 'Do I privation to fuck it? Is it wearing a...yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to spell backmost to my cellphone.'"

She continued, "It was similar we were forced to beryllium together, and helium virtually was scrolling Instagram alternatively than person to look astatine a pistillate successful a bow tie. I was like, 'This should beryllium called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes.'"

Following backlash, Lena apologized to Odell. On Instagram, she said, "I beryllium Odell Beckham Jr an apology. Despite my moments of bravado, I conflict astatine manufacture events (and successful life) with the consciousness that I don't rep a definite modular of quality and truthful erstwhile I amusement up to the Met Ball surrounded by models and swan-like actresses it's hard not to consciousness similar a sack of flaming garbage. This felt particularly aggravated with a handsome jock arsenic my meal companion and a clump of women I was definite he'd alternatively beryllium seated with. But I went up and projected these insecurities and made wholly narcissistic assumptions astir what helium was thinking, past presented those assumptions arsenic facts."

She continued, "I consciousness unspeakable astir it. Because aft listening to tons of valid criticism, I spot however unfair it is to ascribe misogynistic thoughts to idiosyncratic I don't cognize AT ALL. Like, we person ne'er met, I person nary thought the benignant of time he's having oregon what his information is. But astir importantly, I would ne'er intentionally lend to a agelong and often convulsive past of the over-sexualization of Black antheral bodies — arsenic good arsenic mendacious accusations by achromatic women towards Black men. I'm truthful sorry, peculiarly to OBJ, who has each close to beryllium connected his cellphone. The information is I don't cognize astir his authorities of caput (I don't cognize a batch of things), and I shouldn't person acted similar I did."

12. In 2021, Lourdes Leon told Interview Magazine, "Did I person amusive astatine the Met Gala? I'm truly grateful to person been capable to go. Maybe due to the fact that it was my archetypal time, but it felt crazy. You're conscionable shoved into a country with each these celebrated people, and you're expected to speech to them and beryllium their friend, adjacent though you don't fucking cognize them. That's not my vibe."

"I'm definite it's amusive if you're idiosyncratic who is friends with a batch of celebrated people, but I'm not. I didn't cognize who the fuck to speech to. I felt truthful awkward that I virtually called my fellow successful the mediate of it, but the meal was fine. I mean, I was sitting with Jeremy O. Harris, who I love, and Irina Shayk, who I emotion a lot. She's truthful funny," she said.

13. And finally, aft attending the 2021 Met Gala, Ben Platt reflected connected his erstwhile acquisition astatine the 2017 ball. He told The Jess Cagle Show, "I didn't truly cognize anybody, and truthful erstwhile I got inside, it's a very, benignant of, free-for-all. You're not allowed to bring a positive one, beauteous overmuch anyone, unless your positive 1 is besides a fancy, fancy Met person. So, the archetypal clip I went, I benignant of conscionable did a thigh astir the cocktails and tried to find idiosyncratic I knew and past failed and benignant of near and didn't marque it done the lawsuit due to the fact that I was like, 'I don't truly person anybody to speech to.'"

"But this time, I had a mates of, like, checkpoints. I had my beloved person Zoey Deutch there, and my costar successful Evan Hansen, Amandla Stenberg, and conscionable immoderate acquainted faces to marque it consciousness a small little scary," helium said.