Was Kacey Musgraves Actually Nude Live On SNL?

The 47th season of "Saturday Night Live" premiered in October with the usual laughs thanks to host Owen Wilson, but there was also some added heartbreak. The show had a somber touch when comedians Colin Jost and Michael Che dedicated the series' "Weekend Update" segment to "SNL" alum Norm Macdonald, who died in September.

The heartbreak continued when musical guest Kacey Musgraves took the stage and performed her break up single "Justified" from her fifth studio album "Star-Crossed." Musgraves first released the song in August as an "ode to feelings that refuse to sort themselves out," as described by Fader. Back in February, the country-pop artist revealed to Rolling Stone that her fifth album comes after a personally tumultuous year. "This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country — at its most simple form, it's a tragedy," Musgraves said. "And then I started looking into why portraying a tragedy is actually therapeutic and why it is a form of art that has lasted for centuries. It's because you set the scene, the audience rises to the climax of the problem with you, and then there's resolve," she explained. "There's a feeling of resolution at the end. I was inspired by that."

In performing "Justified," Musgraves was inspired by another memorable performance from "Forrest Gump": when Jenny sang in the nude. But did the artist really perform naked on the iconic "SNL" set?

Just over a year after announcing her divorce from Ruston Kelly, country artist Kacey Musgraves is taking fans along her road to healing and starting it with her single "Justified."

The artist opted to perform fully naked on stage during her "Saturday Night Live" set for the heartbreak anthem, with just a pair of boots and a guitar covering her private areas. "She was nude. Precautions were taken, and this was the first time it's happened on the show," the artist's publicist confirmed to Variety.

It's hard to believe that in the 47 seasons NBC's "SNL" has been around that Musgraves was the first to perform in the nude, but the artist was clearly living out her current mindset on stage. The singer previously told Apple Music's Zane Lowe that re-entering the dating pool after three years of marriage has been tough. "It was kind of my first few steps into exploring being a single 30-something-year-old person, after a marriage and ... Nothing for nothing. After a huge point in my career, more notoriety, it was a really naked place," she said (via People). It's safe to say that Musgraves' performance perfectly symbolized how she felt.