Chloe Fineman Faces Criticism Over Camp Counselor Admission

Chloe Fineman, known for her role on “Saturday Night Live,” is encountering backlash after revealing that she compelled young boys to wear pants while she was a camp counselor during her teenage years.

This admission occurred while she was filming a segment for Vanity Fair titled “Testing How Well SNL Cast Members Know Each Other.” In the course of the interview, her colleagues prompted her about a job from which she was fired, but when no one could pinpoint an answer, she shared her experience.

“I was fired from being a camp counselor,” she confessed, recalling that she was just 16 at the time.

Fineman explained her reasoning: “I made the boy wear pants. He kept lifting my shirt. Those were different times,” she said.

She went on to describe the incident that led to her firing and subsequent rehiring. “He asked, ‘Hey, can I give you a hug?'” she remembered, indicating how the boy then lifted her shirt during their embrace. “I thought, ‘I’m going to get revenge.’” She recounted instructing him to look at a hawk while she pulled his pants down, resulting in her firing.

In the aftermath, a video of this segment is available on YouTube, but reports suggest other details and reactions have been redacted from the original content. Variety notes that initial claims mentioned the boy in question was only 6 years old, information that wasn’t included in the edited version.

There were also mentions in the original footage that Fineman had made comments like, “There was a little ding-a-lin in it,” which were later removed, adding to the conversation around her controversial remarks.

While some online commentators have labeled Fineman a “predator,” reactions vary widely, with many expressing disbelief over her willingness to share such a story publicly.