Kristen Wiig received the Icon Award at the annual WIF Honors gala on Thursday night, where the comedy legend got honest about some fears holding her back in her career.

Wiig’s Palm Royale co-star Kaia Gerber was on hand to present the honor, as the Saturday Night Live alum admitted to the crowd inside the Beverly Hilton that she was really nervous to give her speech because “I’m myself. If I had a wig on and like a turtleneck, I could be like, ‘Kristen’s not here tonight,’ but I have to be myself instead.”

On a night celebrating female and nonbinary creatives in Hollywood, Wiig noted how she loves “being in a troupe and finding those female characters and their point of view, not in relation to like their husband or anything like that, but with each other, female friendships. W

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