Sam Smith: 'I begged my managers to get me out of 'Saturday Night Live' as it seemed too early'

British singer-songwriter Sam Smith has revealed that when he was booked to perform on 'Saturday Night Live' he tried to get out of it because it seemed a little premature.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, the superstar confessed that he initially didn't want to perform live on SNL because he felt it was too early on in his career to do something as big as that show:

"I tried to beg my managers and my team to not do SNL because I thought it was way too early. But I was so, so wrong."

He went onto add that he now credits that slot with his success in the USA because it went so well:

"It was incredible and it's broken me in America. That night, people were recognising me a bit more. It was hours after, actually. You could feel the shift and you could feel the change physically in that moment in New York and it was amazing. It was really surreal."

Watch Sam Smith's Christmas cover here: