UPDATE, 4/15/25 at 11:47 a.m. ET:
Aimee Lou Wood set the record straight on her now-viral crying photos — and they have nothing to do with Saturday Night Live.
“Thank you so much,” the actress told fans in an Instagram Story posted on Tuesday, April 15, reacting to their support of the recent SNL controversy.
“Just to say, I actually wasn’t crying about anything that the papers made out I was crying about,” she continued. “Something completely unrelated.”
Original story continues below:
The White Lotus’ Aimee Lou Wood had an emotional moment in the streets of London on Monday, April 14.
In pictures obtained by TMZ and Page Six, Wood, 31, can be seen crying and comforted by a friend in the British capital, just a day after she called out Saturday Night Live’s “mean and unfunny” parody of her White Lotus character.
Wood was spotted wiping away tears and turning to her pal for comfort, per pictures published by TMZ. The actress was photographed wearing a maroon leather jacket and a camel-colored baseball cap.
The Sex Education star’s public display of emotion came after an SNL sketch that aired on NBC on Saturday, April 12, featured a caricature of her White Lotus character, Chelsea. Sarah Sherman portrayed her, complete with a British accent and set of fake teeth.
“I did find the SNL thing mean and unfunny xo,” Wood wrote via her Instagram Story on Sunday, April 13. “Such a shame cuz I had such a great time watching it a couple weeks ago. Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”
In a separate social media post on Sunday, Wood added, “On a positive note, everyone is agreeing with me about it, so I’m glad I said something instead of going in on myself.”
Wood later shared with followers that SNL reached out after her comments.
“I’ve had apologies from SNL,” she wrote via her Instagram Story.
The SNL sketch came amid the ongoing commentary about Wood’s tooth gap on social media.
“It’s, like, cool, and now I want to stop f***ing talking about it. Can I talk about my character? Why am I talking about my gnashers?” she told U.K.’s The Sunday Times in an interview published earlier this month. “It’s like now I’m just a pair of front teeth.”
Wood also expressed her frustration about the focus on her teeth in a recent interview with GQ.
“The whole conversation is just about my teeth, and then it makes me a bit sad because I’m not getting to talk about my work,” she said. “They think it’s nice because they’re not criticizing. And, I have to go there … I don’t know if it was a man that we would be talking about it this much? It’s still going in on a woman’s appearance.”
