The "Confessions" singer said sorry to the pop star's father after the on-stage incident went viral on social media.

The singer fed Carpenter a cherry during his performance at the 2025 Met Gala Sabrina Carpenter shared a carousel of photos from the 2025 Met Gala One of the images was a screengrab of her father's reaction to seeing Usher feed her a cherry during his performance Usher jokingly apologized for the stunt,

Carpenter shared an image dump on Instagram and one of them was a screenshot of a text from him, sharing a photo of the fateful feeding and writing, “? Weird.” Usher himself took to the comments to apologize,