A woman revealed in a now viral video that she once met Harry Styles on a Saturday Night Live †SNL) after party, but the interaction didn’t go as she’d hoped.
The video was posted to TikTok on Wednesday by Ariel (@arielgitlin), who wrote, “My Harry Styles story.” It has racked up over 94,000 views and hundreds of viewer commentators who said they “would have cried” if the hilarious interaction had happened to them.
At the beginning of her video, Ariel said she was inspired to share her story after watching a video of Brittany Broski, a social media personality and Harry Styles superfan, who met the singer.
Broski’s interaction took place in May at Styles’ Event for one night in New York City. A viral TikTok of the sweet moment shows Broski and Styles cuddling and talking backstage while their respective teams watch and record.
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Although Ariel met the singer at a 2019 SNL afterparty with her best friend – her experience meeting the pop star was very different from Broski’s.
“I was so excited to meet Harry and my best friend was very helpful,” she said. “She liked Harry too, but she was there to support me [and] wing woman me to meet him.”
Ariel said she and her boyfriend were standing in the same spot all night waiting for Styles to come over. When he finally did, Ariel “worked everything up” [her] courage” and said, “Hello, Harry. I love ‘Watermelon sugar’ – that [song] was great.”
Styles thanked Ariel for the compliment, then turned to her best friend – who at the time was wearing a shaved head and a pink jumpsuit that was reminiscent of the outfit Styles wore on his Thin line album cover – and said, “I’ve been watching you all night, thinking you must be awesome.”
Ariel’s friend told Styles that she dressed especially for him, to which he replied, “You look amazing.” Ariel, still standing between the two, then blurted out that she was also “dressing up” for Styles.
“He looked at me and said very kindly, ‘You look great too,’ which was generous,” Ariel recalls.
The video ends with a photo taken that night of Ariel, Styles and her best friend. “Here we are, just three best friends,” she concluded.
Viewers found the story hilarious, but admitted they would have cried if she were her.
“This would be my villain origin story,” wrote TikTok user tylerstasi.
“Um, I’d be really devastated and then I’d hate him,” said Carly.
“I would have cried,” Ximena commented.
Ava mcghee added: “I LAUGH SO HARD, but good for you.”
news week has reached out to Ariel for comment.
Other Styles Viral Moments With Fans
Styles is known for his hilarious interactions with fans, especially when he’s on tour. Last year he made headlines after giving a fan relationship advice in the middle of his set†
The viral moment started when Styles spotted a fan holding a sign that read, “Should I text him?” to which he replied: “My personal opinion is that if there is any kind of games, [then] trash, trash, trash, not for you.”
The “As It Was” singer went viral again about a month later: help a fan to come to her mother during one of his shows.
“Lisa! She’s gay!” Styles yelled at the arena.
Speaking to PopCrush earlier this year, Styles said his fans are “incredible” and that he loves the atmosphere they create at his shows.
“The atmosphere is incredible. I feel that too, that’s something [that] comes a lot from the fans. It’s a bunch of strangers that come together and become a family to just celebrate and have fun,” he said. “Everyone wants to feel free and have fun and that really gives me the space to just have fun and have the best time to have. I’m really happy that everyone feels like they can do that too.”