While appearing on the Monday, November 3, episode of the "Armchair Expert" podcast, Witherspoon, 49, looked back on hosting her first episode of SNL immediately after the 9/terrorist attacks when she was 24 years old.
She then recalled the show's creator and producer Lorne Michaels calling her ahead of the episode and saying, "I really need you to show up. I really, really need this. Rudy Giuliani’s gonna be here. All the firefighters are gonna be here. Paul Simon is gonna sing. I just need you to come out and do something a little light and tell America — you can’t feel — we gotta laugh again. We’ve got to get back the national spirit.'"
While Witherspoon was nervous to host following such a tragedy, she said her “Southern and military ethics” kept her from backing out of her role as the episode’s host.
The Walk the Line actress said she “completely left my body” during the episode “and did not go again for 15 years,” referring to the show.
Witherspoon notably didn't return to host the show again until May 2015, while those two appearances mark her only times hosting the show.
“I’ve always admired her enormously for that time. There were lots of people saying, ‘I don’t think you can go on.’ We’ve faced that many times before, but you just have to find a way to do it. I knew it was very, very important that we show up," he said.
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