Ashley Padilla may be known as Saturday Night Live’s breakout star now, but the comedian initially thought she’d been rejected from the cast.

Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, the 32-year-old told how she believed she hadn’t made the cut after a meeting with SNL mastermind Lorne Michaels.

Meyers asked about Padilla’s meeting with the SNL creator, saying, “I was also delighted to hear that you had a similar experience with Lorne that I had,” he said. “Based on the meeting, you thought you had officially not been hired.”

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Padilla confirmed the story, recounting her interview with Michaels in which he told her, “There’s really no room for you in the cast.”

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