Chloe Fineman Says Elon Musk Made Her Cry When He Hosted SNL

Chloe Fineman is recalling an alleged incident in which she says that Elon Musk made her cry.

In a now-deleted TikTok video Fineman, 36, a comedian on Saturday Night Live, accused the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO, 53, of making her cry when he hosted the long-running sketch comedy show in May 2021.

She began the Monday, Nov. 11 video by expressing that she wanted to speak out after seeing articles about Musk "being butt-hurt about SNL and his impression."

The entrepreneur recently addressed the show while replying to a post on X of Dana Carvey's impression of him following the 2024 presidential election.

"SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality. Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further. @nbcsnl," wrote Musk.

Fineman, for her part, said on Monday: "I was like I'm not gonna say anything, but I’m like, no, if you're gonna go on your platform [X] and be rude, guess what? You made I, Chloe Fineman, burst into tears because I stayed up all night writing this sketch," said Fineman.

"I was so excited, I came in, I asked if you had any questions and you stared at me like you were firing me from Tesla and were like, ‘It's not funny.' I waited for you to be like, 'Haha, JK.' No. Then you started pawing through my script, like flipping each page being like, 'I didn't laugh. I didn't laugh once, not one time,' " she continued.

While Fineman didn't disclose what sketch she was referring to, she said it made it on the show and "it was fine."

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"I actually had a really good time and I thought you were really funny in it, but, you know, have a little manners here, sir," she added.

On Nov. 12, Musk responded to Fineman's TikTok via a post on X. "Frankly, it was only on the Thursday before the Saturday that ANY of the sketches generated laughs. I was worried," Musk wrote.

He said he was concerned his appearance on the show would be "unfunny" but said "it worked out in the end."

Fineman's message comes three months after fellow SNL personality Bowen Yang revealed on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen that a previous male host made "multiple cast members cry" because he " hated the ideas" he was given.

PEOPLE reached out to a representative for Musk for comment.