He started off by talking about the elephant in the room, the moment where he looks so uninterested which resulted in thousands of hilarious memes.
“My dad told me he was coming up so I had to push out there,” he explained, “but I had the video [on] when I was going out to Justin, and then I had the iPhone 6, so that thing is slow. So it just shut off, and that’s why all the memes formed.”
Once that was out of the way, Ellen got Justin Timberlake on the phone to officially talk to Ryan.
“Oh my God, I can’t believe this,” McKenna said, tearing up the moment Timberlake said his name. “It’s nice to meet you, finally,” Timberlake responded.
But the phone conversation was just a small piece of what Ellen and Justin had in store for McKenna.
“Do you have anything for him, Justin?” Ellen asked!
“I tell you what I want to do,” Timberlake said, “because it was so unexpected that you came down and because all of this has happened, I thought to myself I really wanna meet you properly.”
He offered McKenna and his family tickets to his concert in Boston later this year.
But that still is not it! The NFL gave the young fan and his family VIP tickets to a Patriots home game next season and four pre-game field passes.
