There are certainly specific things about being famous that aren’t easy, especially when it comes to online trolls and social media criticism. Unfortunately, though, that’s part of being a public figure, and while celebrities often know, to a degree, what they’re getting into, we don’t often think about the friends and family who also read all of the good, bad and ugly that’s posted about their loved ones. Pete Davidson’s mom, Amy, apparently had her own way of standing up for her son — creating a fake Twitter account — and the comedian recently shared the funny reason she got caught.
Pete Davidson stepped away from Saturday Night Live in 2022, after eight years on the NBC sketch comedy, and when talking on the Family Trips With the Meyers Brothers podcast, he discussed how Amy Davidson handled the critiques aimed at her son’s comedy skills. The Bupkis star explained the “traditional SNL trajectory” is that fans love you when you first join, but then stop until you get good at the show. He told Seth and Josh Meyers:
