POLITICAL PURGATORY! The ‘HAIR-RAISING’ moment an SNL mom ‘SHATTERED’ her family with a Trump confession — as fans are left ‘SHAKING’ by her ‘VICIOUS’ rant about IUDs and matcha!

She’ll share her new opinions with her kids — but ONLY if they pretend she said nothing at all.

Ashley Padilla Is 'SNL's' Emmys Standout for Mom Confessions Sketch

It may be Dad’s birthday and dinner at Red Robin awaits, but Mom has something she’d like to say.

The Saturday Night Live sketch “Mom Confession” debuted during the January 31 episode, hosted by Alexander Skarsgård. The Murderbot star donned a mustache and took up residence in a recliner while Ashley Padilla played his wife, a loving mother who’s excited that her kids (Andrew Dismukes, Sarah Sherman, Tommy Brennan, Jane Wickline) have come to visit. She’s taking this opportunity to share some news, and it’s clear she knows what she’s in for.

“There’s something I need to tell you all first,” she says. “I’m only gonna say it if, after I do, you promise you will NOT react.  No talking, no faces, no nothing. The thing I’m going to say is shocking, and it’s going to make you want to react. But I need you to promise that you will not.”

She has even prepared “practice examples” to allow her children to practice their non-reactions. “I eat bugs,” she says, and then tries, “My butt fell off, can’t find it.”

When the kids have agreed to stoicism, she reveals her big news. “What I have to tell you…is I may have changed my mind…about Trump.”

Cue the kids’ frustrated yelling.

“Mom Confession” was written by Ashley Padilla, Alison Gates, and Kent Sublette

Tommy Brennan and Jane Wickline sit while Ashley Padilla stands and talks in Saturday Night Live Season 51 Episode 12.
Tommy Brennan, Jane Wickline, and Ashley Padilla during the “Mom Confession” sketch in Saturday Night Live Season 51 Episode 12. Photo: Will Heath/NBC

“I feel now…like he might be…bad for our country,” Mom continues. “I feel like…maybe…some of the things he says…aren’t true.”

“The things that are happening…no one could have seen coming! I feel like…the way they talk about guns…is different for different people,” she goes on. “They made me feel worried about trans people, but now I’m realizing…I don’t really get what the problem is? I’m starting to wonder…if drag queens…are actually hilarious.”

As the kids look like they’re ready to burst, Mom can only silence them with, “Do you want this to be real or not?” 

Dad, whose only concern is ending this conversation so he can get his “birthday scoop,” defends his wife the only way he knows how.

“Leave your mother alone,” he says. “Her laptop is old. She gets a different internet than you.”

Ashley Padilla’s “Mom Confession” face is already a meme

Padilla’s character’s change of heart has already inspired memes on social media and has CNN analyzing data about how many people can relate to not only regretting a vote, but also feeling too embarrassed to admit they were wrong. YouTube comments seem to support just how relatable this sketch is.

“This is so freaking spot on!” wrote one viewer. “Did they use my mother-in-law as a character study?”

“‘I get a different internet than you,’ an actual thing my dad had said to me once,” wrote another.

“I felt like the kids the entire time,” said another commenter. “This one was too real and on point. Hilarious.”

Hopefully Dad eventually got his birthday scoop?

Watch “Mom Confession” from Season 51, Episode 12 above, and stream every season of Saturday Night Live on Peacock anytime.

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