Kumail Nanjiani would ultimately like to remove himself from this narrative, but not before having a little fun with it first.
“There was a rumor going around last year that I was having an affair with Michelle Obama,” the comedian, who’s been married to Emily Gordon since 2007, said on the Dec. 25 episode of So True With Caleb Hearon. “I know, I was so excited.”
In fact, he had no idea that he had been linked to the former first lady until recently, when a mutual friend pulled Emily aside and said, “‘Hey, so, I heard that Kumail and Michelle Obama are, like, doing it.’ And she wasn’t even upset.”
So, suffice it to say, Kumail and his wife aren’t big sick over the story, the Fallout actor clarifying, “I’ve never met Michelle Obama.”
But, as Caleb Hearon then pointed out, the made-up tale comes on the heels of the rumor that former President Barack Obama was romantically involved with Jennifer Aniston.
You know, the one that the Friends alum also had a big laugh over.
