What’s a Met Gala without some drama? In 2014, we had the elevator incident. Hailey Baldwin can’t go a year without breaking her foot. This year, it was pretty obvious which couple was going to be the shit-stirrers among the cavalcade of boldface names stepping out in their “Manus x Machina” finery. If you guessed Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West, congratulations, you’re a conscious being in the year 2016.

The two somehow managed to get into a scrape with their bodyguard for the night even before arriving at the Met. The story about the dustup hit the Web on Tuesday, when the New York Daily News reported that Kanye had allegedly fired a bodyguard named Steve Stanulis in “a fit of jealousy” after spotting him talking to Kim Kardashian outside her hotel room at the Waldorf Astoria.

Stanulis, a former Staten Island police officer and Chippendales performer, has worked with many famous folk before. He’s protected the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Alanis Morissette. Perhaps they were a bit more lenient when it came to being spoken to by the help.

“According to a second source, an assistant from Kim Kardashian and West’s camp called down to the pair’s security detail, asking that one of them bring up a package,” the Daily News reports. “When Stanulis volunteered for the task, West, who was in an adjacent room in the same hallway, was heard asking loudly why the muscle for hire was chatting with his wife outside her door and saying, ‘This isn’t right!’”

By the time the couple stepped out on the red carpet at the Met Gala, Stanulis was gone. The Daily News received word that he’d been let go at West’s behest shortly after six P.M.

In a tell-all interview with the Daily Mail released today, Stanulis claims that this isn’t his first run-in with Kanye, whom he calls the most “self-absorbed person” he’s ever met, over his interactions with Kim. The bodyguard tells the Mail that he’s worked for the Wests for around 15 days this year, and 10 of those days were in February during Fashion Week. Five were last week for the Met Gala. During the Fashion Week stint, Kanye had someone from his team warn Stanulis to stay away from his wife after the rapper caught Stanulis speaking to her.

According to Stanulis, all he said was, “‘Hey, I am Steve, and I am an ex-police officer, and I am going to be looking after you.’ . . . She was sweet, and she was nice. It was super small talk, and when she walked away, one of the handlers in the fashion studio came up to me and said, ‘We don’t want you too close to Kim.’”

Stanulis had a litany of complaints about his time spent in Kanye West’s presence—apparently, West would be a great inspiration for a character in Horrible Bosses 3. “I don’t think he ever said two words to me. I would go to a restaurant with him and watch him to make sure nobody was bothering him. Not once was I offered a glass of water or a soda. That was never in his mindset,” Stanulis tells the Daily Mail. “I work with Saudi royal family members and when you sit with them and whatever they eat, you eat. They tip you and it’s great. But with this guy, you could be working with him for 17 hours and sitting in a restaurant with him. You would think he would say, ‘Hey you want something to drink?,’ but it was nothing. It just blew my mind.”