Awful! These Celebrities Missed the Met Gala Because the L Train Was Down

Last night, the biggest and brightest stars gathered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a kind of celebrity prom.

But some of Hollywood’s hottest C-listers had to miss Anna Wintour’s famed soiree, all thanks to the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority. The popular L train was down for a whopping 127 minutes yesterday evening, and, when service resumed, trains went directly from Bedford Avenue to 8th Ave, hamstringing celebs who needed to transfer at Union Square to get to the Upper East Side.

Chris Kirkpatrick

The former dreadlocked Nsyncer got on the L at Lorimer Street — and stayed there. An MTA police investigation of an earlier incident held the train at the junction of the L and G lines. “I kept getting out my phone to check the price of a car,” Kirkpatrick recalls. “But it was rush hour, so an Uberpool was gonna set me back $50. Can you believe that?!? A shared ride.”

Ja Rule

Rule moved to Brooklyn last year when his mother finally got him to sit down with her financial planner, who made Rule see the value in putting money away for retirement. “If you invest wisely, your money should double every 7 years,” he explains. “And like, so many of my fellow millennials are spending like retirement savings are just something that naturally happen as you get older. But it’s a habit you have to start building today. Like, not everyone can get rich off a fraudulent music festival.” Rule caught the L at Bedford Ave, and then was stuck in the tunnel into Manhattan for 2 grueling hours. “When the train started moving again, and they said we were now going straight to 8th Ave, and that we could get off at 1st Ave and transfer to a train making local stops, I was like, ‘Nah, I’m done.’” Rule said he felt somewhat silly standing in a packed subway car in a $7,000 Versace suit designed to look like an Egyptian mummy, but he does not regret his decision to bail and go for a walk along the High Line.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

The creator and star of the critically acclaimed miniseries Fleabag has been renting an AirBNB in Williamsburg and working part-time at a combination coffee and bike shop while writing her follow-up: Fleabag 2. She had been watching the sun set with friends at the Transmitter Park in Greenpoint when she realized the time and sprinted to Bedford Avenue. When Waller-Bridge failed to grasp the “keep right” guiding principle of American pedestrians, she became disoriented and had to be medevaced back to London.

Wow! Hopefully this will be the MTA’s last wardrobe malfunction!