Aimee Lou Wood reveals Sarah Sherman sent flowers after ‘SNL’ parody

Aimee Lou Wood got more than just a single white lotus after criticizing a Saturday Night Live sketch — she got some roses, too.

Days after The White Lotus star called out the comedy show for its unflattering portrayal of her in “The White POTUS” sketch, Wood has revealed that the SNL cast member who played her in the parody recently sent over a bouquet of flowers.

“Thank you for the beautiful flowers [Sarah Sherman],” Wood wrote, tagging Sherman in a picture of the pink and orange arrangement. Whether Sherman offered a formal apology for the sketch, she did not say.

Representatives for Wood and Sherman did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for additional comment.

The flowers come days after Wood slammed the sketch on Instagram, telling followers that she found it “mean and unfunny.” 

The pre-recorded parody primarily targeted President Donald Trump and his allies in the wake of tariffs upending the global economy. The sketch starred James Austin Johnson as the president, Mikey Day as Donald Trump Jr., Jon Hamm as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and  Chloe Fineman as Melania Trump. Sherman showed up as Wood’s Chelsea, one of only a couple of actual White Lotus characters present in the sketch along with Lizzo’s portrayal of Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda.

At one point, Hamm’s RFK blurted out, “I’ve been having these insane ideas, like what if we took all the fluoride out of the drinking water? What would that do to people’s teeth?”

 The camera then turned to Sherman’s Chelsea, who showed off her fake, enlarged teeth while declaring, “Fluoride? What’s that?”

Wood criticized this portrayal in a series of posts on Instagram Stories, writing, “Yes, take the piss for sure — that’s what the show is about — but there must be a cleverer, more nuanced, less cheap way?”

The actress then reshared and responded to several messages from fans about the sketch, of which she said there were “thousands.”

Said one Instagram user: “Everyone else in that parody was a political figure who was being mocked. The only character who wasn’t political was Chelsea, and they were clearly just taking the piss out of your appearance.” To this, Wood wrote, “Correct.”

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Wood later shared that she has received “apologies from SNL,” but did not specify who they were from or what was said.

The actress, a breakout star from the latest season of the Mike White-created drama, has previously been vocal about her surprise over “the impact” that her teeth have had on America audiences.

During a March appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show, she said the kind response “feels so lovely. A real full-circle moment after being bullied for my teeth forever and now people are clapping in the audience.”