The actor explained that his wife was “hunched over” on FaceTime in a way that made her bangs look “more like Spock.”

Will Forte’s wife threatened to divorce him over his clumsy reaction to her bangs: ‘What happened to you?’

The actor explained that his wife was "hunched over" on FaceTime in a way that made her bangs look "more like Spock."

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- Will Forte's wife Olivia Modling threatened divorce after he had a bad reaction to her new bangs.

- The actor immediately asked, "What happened to you?"

- He then asked if she was wearing a wig before having to cut the call short because he was at a rehearsal.

Word to the wise: If your partner gets bangs just compliment them, lest you end up in an awkward situation like Will Forte.

The *MacGruber* star revealed that his wife Olivia Modling threatened to divorce him after he gave his unfiltered reaction to her new hairstyle.

“I FaceTime her, she picks up the FaceTime and she has freshly cut bangs,” Forte explained on Wednesday’s episode of *Late Night With Seth Meyers*. “She has never had bangs before since I’ve known her. Did not know she was getting bangs. No words were spoken until I said, ‘What happened to you?’”

Forte and Modling.

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The* Saturday Night Live *alum acknowledged his response was “not a great start” to the conversation, so he tried to change tactics.

“And then I said, ‘Is that a wig?!’ And look, in fairness to me, the way the bangs were presented, she was like hunched over a little bit. So it wasn’t like Brigitte Bardot bangs, it was more like Spock,” he said. “And it was also right around Halloween, so like, maybe she was going to dress as Spock for Halloween, and it was a wig?”

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It didn’t take long for Forte to realize that it was, in fact, not a wig.

“It’s like, ‘How do I turn this around and make it seem like I think they’re beautiful?’” he said. “And then I kind of realized we were in the middle of rehearsal and everyone was like, ‘What are you doing on your phone?’ So I said, ‘Oh! I’ve got to go!’ So that was how it was left.”

If that wasn’t bad enough, Forte said he wasn’t able to contact Modling for “a half hour” as he ran through rehearsal. When he finally got to circle back with her, she had left him a string of texts that host Seth Meyers displayed to the cameras.

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“She said, ‘Is that a wig? The. Worst. Possible. Thing. To. Hear. After. Cutting. BANGS!’” Forte read. “And I was like, ‘Ha ha ha ha.’ And then she said, ‘Divorce.’”

Thankfully, the actor said he was able to remedy the situation in the end. “We got past it!” he added.

Forte and Modling tied the knot in 2021 after three years of dating. The couple have since welcomed daughters Zoe and Cecilia.

Listen to Forte recall his fringe fiasco in the clip above.

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