Kate Winslet reveals rapper’s intimate request when they were on SNL together

Titanic star Kate Winslet has broken her 20-year silence about a shocking backstage encounter with a rapper that left her stunned.

She didn’t want to lose herself.

During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Kate Winslet, 50, revealed a strange encounter she had with Eminem, 53, back in 2004.

“This is a story I’ve never, never told,” the Titanic actress began, explaining that she hosted Saturday Night Live when Eminem was the musical guest for the October 30 episode that year.

“Eminem asked me to shave his bottom.”

Kate Winslet revealed that rapper Eminem once asked her to “shave his bottom” when they both appeared on Saturday Night Live in 2004. Picture: BBC

The actress shared the bizarre encounter this week on The Graham Norton Show alongside former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. Picture: BBC

The bizarre request happened one week after Ashlee Simpson’s infamous lip-synching blunder on the NBC variety show.

After Norton and the crowd laughed, Norton asked, “Was it a handheld razor?”

The Oscar-winning actress insisted, “Well, he did!”

Winslet recalled, “He said, ‘Will you shave my butt?’ and I said, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t do personal grooming.’ Like what? I’m not gonna go with a Bic and get your crack love. Honestly!”

Winslet hasn’t returned to host SNL in the 20 years since that incident.

“I’ve never told that story before, ever in my life in public. There you go!” she told the crowd.

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Winslet hosted the show in 2004 on which Eminem (right) was a musical guest. Picture: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Winslet said she had been promoting the 2004 Johnny Depp movie Finding Neverland at the time, and only had 24 hours to prepare for SNL.

The show also had her “sing and tap dance” just one week after Simpson’s disaster, in which the former pop star was caught lip-synching on live TV.

Winslet said she didn’t know how to respond when the intimate request was made backstage. Picture: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Eminem performing on the October 30, 2004 episode. Picture: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Simpson, 41, reflected on the fiasco in a February 2024 interview on the Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen podcast.

According to Simpson, she was scheduled to appear on the variety show as a musical guest but realised she could not perform because she had “two nodules beating against each other,” causing her to lose her voice.

Simpson said she told the show’s execs what was happening but was pressured by the higher-ups to sing her hit song Pieces of Me using a prerecorded track.

“I feel like it was a humbling moment for me,” she said.

This article originally appeared in New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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