Andrew Scott reveals he secretly passed a kidney stone at 2020 SAG Awards

The 2020 SAG Awards was a night to remember for Andrew Scott — and not just because he was nominated.

While walking the red carpet for this year’s ceremony, Scott decided to finally let fans in on a secret he’s been keeping for the last five years: last time he attended the show, he secretly passed a kidney stone.

“I was beside Phoebe [Waller-Bridge] and Laura Dern had just won best supporting actress and we were standing up,” the Ripley actor told Variety on Sunday night. “I don’t know if anyone has ever experienced having a kidney stone before, but it sends you — the pain is so immediate.”

One moment he was applauding Dern’s supporting actress win for Marriage Story, and the next, he was hunched over in pain.

“As Laura was speaking, I was crawling out of the [room], and by the time her speech was over, I was ripping off my tux,” Scott recalled. “I was in the back, one of those rooms back there, writhing around in agony.”

He added that he knew what was happening because it wasn’t his first kidney stone, but the moment was still pure chaos: as Scott recalled it, he could still hear Dern’s speech happening in the other room and Waller-Bridge was running water to him before an ambulance arrived to bring him to a hospital.

“It happens immediately,” he stressed. “So by the time Laura reached the stage, I was backstage.” Scott was nominated that night for his fan-favorite role as the Hot Priest in the second season of Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag — luckily, he didn’t miss his on camera moment because his award was the first of the night. Though he didn’t get to claim the gilded actor statue (that honor went to The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s Tony Shalhoub), Scott may have walked away with a souvenir of another kind… but he’ll never tell.

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Declining to reveal what became of his kidney stone, Scott laughed, “That’s too much. People don’t need to know about that. It was grisly.”

Five years removed from the painful medical incident, Scott said he was “feeling good” about his SAG Awards return. This time around, the actor was nominated for his role in Ripley, and lost to Colin Farrell‘s performance in The Penguin. Scott didn’t let the loss get him down though, and seemed to be having the time of his life in footage captured at a SAG Awards afterparty.

From the look of his dance moves, Scott managed to avoid making a tradition of his medical emergency. Or, at the very least, did an excellent job of hiding it.