Will Forte Says a Spirit Warned Him He’d Be Stabbed to Death at Age 73

Will Forte says a spirit as soon as warned him that he’d, um, be stabbed to dying on the age of 73.

The actor, 54, shared the story on the newest episode of Rachel Dratch’s “Woo Woo” podcast. He informed Dratch, a fellow Saturday Evening Dwell alum, that when he was a teen, he felt a supernatural presence whereas taking part in the Ouija board on the residence of a woman he appreciated. 

“I’d ask questions of this Ouija board that no one else would know the solutions to, and it could get the solutions right. And so I used to be fairly blown away,” Forte recalled. “I used to be pondering, like, is there a means that my palms are shifting it as a result of I do know the reply? … I used to be making an attempt to not push all of it, nevertheless it was fairly nuts — like my grandma’s center title, that type of stuff.”

Forte, who had beforehand thought the Ouija was “so dumb,” mentioned he “can be placing the spirit down, making an attempt to get him actually indignant. I’m positive I informed him he had a small penis or one thing like that.”

All humor apart, he mentioned “it actually did get type of scary.”

Forte summoned the braveness to ask the board for particulars on his future dying.

“I discovered that I used to be going to die on the age of 73 by stabbing,” he knowledgeable Dratch. “I’ve acquired 19 years left.”

Dratch referred to as Forte’s Ouija expertise “excessive” and expressed disbelief. Although Forte didn’t consider the prophecy both, it nonetheless crosses his thoughts from “time to time” that maybe there was some fact to it. For example, he mentioned, “after I’m  72, after I’m nearing the tip, do I, like, begin wanting into Kevlar, full-body Kevlar fits?”

Whereas Dratch starred on SNL from 1999 to 2006, Forte joined the present in 2002 and departed in 2010. He was recognized for his MacGruber sketch and his “his “Ohhhhhhhh, Noooooooo!” man in addition to his George W. Bush and Lorne Michaels impressions. He went on to star within the 2013 drama Nebraska and the Fox comedy collection The Final Man on Earth, which aired from 2015 to 2018. 

Forte later reprised his most well-known character in one other TV comedy, MacGruber, that debuted on Peacock in 2021. Earlier that 12 months, Forte married enterprise growth govt Olivia Modling a number of months after they welcomed their daughter, Zoe, who’s now 3. (They’ve since welcomed a second daughter named Cecilia.)

The couple deliberate their wedding ceremony rapidly amid the Covid pandemic.

“It was only a pleasant day,” Forte told People afterward. “My dad and mom had been completely shocked. It was so annoying, the 2 weeks the place we had been planning. I can’t think about having a 12 months or extra to stew over wedding ceremony plans.”