00:00Chloe Fineman is leaving Saturday Night Live, ahead of season 52.
00:04The veteran cast member, known for her pitch-perfect celebrity impressions,
00:08announced the news on Instagram, writing,
00:10After seven wonderful seasons at SNL, I've decided it's time for my next chapter.
00:14It's cliche to say this, but working at SNL has been the greatest privilege of my life.
00:19I still can't really believe I got to be a part of it.
00:21I fell in love with the place the second I walked through the door.
00:24Lorne, if you're reading this on your burner account,
00:27I want you to know I am forever in your debt.
00:30The 37-year-old comedian's exit comes three months after she was at the center
00:33of a bizarre controversy stemming from this viral video.
00:37Here's what we reported back in April.
00:40No, I was fired as a camp counselor.
00:43For hitting on the campers?
00:45What does no, I pantsed a boy.
00:47Chloe Fineman is facing backlash for a wild story she told in a Vanity Fair video
00:52that has since been edited by the publication.
00:55We've got the full story right here.
00:57In the segment titled, SNL Cast Test How Well They Know Each Other, posted on March 31st,
01:03Chloe reveals to her fellow cast members that, at the age of 16, she was fired, then rehired,
01:09from a job as a camp counselor.
01:11Why?
01:12For pulling a camper's pants down as a form of payback for the kid always trying to pull
01:17up her shirt.
01:18According to several outlets, including Variety and Page Six's sister site, Decider, Vanity
01:23Fair apparently cut out the ickier parts of the story, as well as some of the cast's reactions,
01:28as a form of damage control.
01:30However, across social media, the original clip has been salvaged.
01:33Take a look.
01:35Oh, honey, I think you're on a list somewhere.
01:37And he wasn't wearing underpants.
01:39Oh!
01:40And then a giant school bus drove by, and they were like, you can't, like, because he would,
01:45he would lift my shirt all the time.
01:47Oh, what is happening?
01:49It was Berkeley.
01:50How old was the child?
01:51He was like six.
01:53And then I yanked his pants down.
01:55He wasn't wearing underwear.
01:56His little ding-a-ling was out.
01:57In the original upload, Chloe was pressed to reveal the boy's age was six at the time,
02:02and that he wasn't wearing underwear, and that a school bus drove by during the humiliating
02:07incident.
02:08Decider's editor-in-chief, Mark Graham, wrote on X,
02:11This Chloe Feynman story is pretty nuts, as is the attempted cover-up by Vanity Fair.
02:16The cover-up is always worse than the crime.
02:19Elsewhere online, fans are debating if the story is silly or just plain creepy.
02:23Chloe, who is now 37, joked in the video that it was a different time, and in Berkeley,
02:29referencing California's famously hippie enclave.
02:32While some are calling for Chloe's cancellation, others brushed it off.
02:36And many compared it to the shocking story at the center of Zendaya's new romantic thriller.
02:41In the drama, Zendaya's character reveals over drinks the worst thing she's ever done,
02:46much to the horror of her fiancé, played by Robert Pattinson, and their friends.
02:50And it all goes down just days before their wedding.
02:53As for Chloe Feynman, this is the comedian's seventh season on Saturday Night Live.
02:58Following the season 51 cast Bloodbath, fans are anxious to see how this bizarre story
03:03might play a role in her future with the famed NBC show.
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