Chloe Fineman had tension with ‘SNL’ co-stars before exit: ‘Not everyone clicked with her’

Chloe Fineman’s relationships pinch her “Saturday Night Live” castmates weren’t ever soft sailing.

Just a time aft nan comedian announced she was leaving NBC’s iconic late-night sketch show aft 7 seasons, a root exclusively told Page Six that while Fineman, 37, formed adjacent friendships pinch immoderate co-stars, she didn’t needfully mesh pinch everybody.

“Chloe could swipe group nan incorrect measurement astatine times,” our insider said. “She sewage on really good pinch immoderate formed members, but not everyone clicked pinch her.”

According to nan source, “Some formed members felt for illustration she expected group to accommodate her and assumed everyone would set to her schedule and preferences.”

However, nan insider noted, “It wasn’t immoderate immense feud aliases thing for illustration that.”

Meanwhile, a 2nd root adjacent to nan show exclusively told Page Six: “There’s nary truth to this.”

Representatives for Fineman aliases NBC did not instantly respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.

The character took to Instagram Thursday to denote her departure alongside a carousel of snaps of her favourite memories and sketches from nan show.

“After 7 awesome seasons astatine ‘SNL’ I person decided it’s clip for my adjacent chapter,” she captioned nan post. “It’s cliche to opportunity this but moving astatine ‘SNL’ has been nan top privilege of my life. I still can’t really judge I sewage to beryllium a portion of it.”

“Every time I was fortunate capable to beryllium surrounded by nan champion group successful nan business, and I was perpetually amazed watching them work,” Fineman continued. “I’m decidedly not nan first to make this study but it really is funny looking backmost astatine it each now, because astatine nan show you get truthful invested successful everything you activity on.

She added: “You sob uncontrollably erstwhile your sketch isn’t picked. You large wind into a producers agency telling them they conscionable made nan biggest correction of their lives. You telephone everyone you cognize to complain. And past you look backmost a fewer years later and it was a sketch called ‘lipstick for thicc dogs.'”

Several “SNL” stars took to nan remark conception to respond to nan news.

“Congrats Carlotaaaa ❤️‍🔥🫱🏼🫲🏼 💃,” Marcello Hernandez wrote. “SNL fable 😭,” Ben Marshall added.

Ego Nwodim, who departed from nan show past year, commented, “Congratulations Chloe!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.”

Last year, Nwodim and chap alum Heidi Gardner opened up astir nan show’s “challenging” on-set dynamic aft their departures.

“We’re humans, truthful we person egos, we want things for ourselves, we want to succeed, and location weren’t a batch of times erstwhile we were capable to win successful nan measurement we wanted astatine nan nonstop aforesaid time,” Gardner explained connected Nwodim’s “Thanks Dad” podcast successful October 2025.

Nwodim agreed, “It’s truthful easy to beryllium caught up pinch your ain worldly astatine ‘SNL’ and what you’re getting connected and what you’re not getting on, really you’re succeeding and really you wish you were doing better, aliases really I want what that personification has.”

As Page Six antecedently reported, Fineman felt leaving nan sketch drama bid was nan “best move” because she recovered herself up against rising stars for illustration Ashley Padilla and Veronika Slowikowska, insiders exclusively told us.

Fineman made nan determination to depart conscionable hours aft she was offered a domiciled connected David E. Kelley’s caller Netflix drama, “Myron Bolitar,” Page Six reported.

It “all unfolded successful 1 time … It happened very quickly,” an manufacture insider said. “Chloe went backmost and forth, but it was a smart move — she knew she couldn’t opportunity no. After 7 seasons connected nan show, and pinch each nan caller faces, it was astir apt nan champion move for her.”