May 6, 2025
Aimee Lou Wood Thanks ‘SNL’s’ Sarah Sherman for Flowers After ‘White Lotus’ Sketch


Aimee Lou Wood’s beef with “Saturday Night Live” appears to be coming to a close.

The star of “The White Lotus” posted a photo of flowers on her Instagram story on April 15, thanking “SNL” cast member Sarah Sherman for sending them after she starred as Wood in a sketch on the comedy show over the weekend.

“Thank you for the beautiful flowers,” Wood wrote, tagging Sherman and adding three emoji.

A representative for “SNL” did not respond to a request for comment from TODAY.com about the flowers Sherman sent.

Aimee Lou Wood
@aimeelouwood via Instagram

Wood took aim at “SNL” after its April 12 episode aired featuring a sketch called “The White Potus,” which showed cast members portraying different members of the Trump administration set at the hotel at the heart of Season Three of the hit HBO show.

James Austin Johnson portrayed President Donald Trump in a twist on Jason Isaacs’ character, Timothy Ratliff, and Chloe Fineman played Melania Trump, replacing Parker Posey’s Victoria Ratliff.

Other stars like Jon Hamm, Scarlett Johansson and more starred as political figures, while musical guest Lizzo did her best impression as Belinda, and Sherman donned a British accent and fake teeth to portray Wood.

“Fluoride, what’s that?” she said to Hamm, who played Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the sketch.

“Oh look, a monkey!” she added, referring to shots of the primates shown throughout Season Three of the show.

After the sketch aired, Wood posted a selfie on her Instagram story on April 13 saying she was in “honest mode.”

“I did find the ‘SNL’ thing mean and unfunny,” she said. “(Felt righteous might delete later x).”

Later that day, she began posting some of the supportive messages she had received from fans, adding that she was glad she said something.

“Everyone is agreeing with me about it so I’m glad I said something instead of going in on myself,” she said in another Instagram story.

Wood described herself as “not thin-skinned” in another post, and said on the platform she wished “SNL” took a “cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap” approach to its parody of her character.

“I don’t mind caricature — I understand that’s what SNL is. But the rest of the skit was punching up and I/Chelsea was the only one punched down on,” she wrote.

She later said that she had received apologies from “SNL.”

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