Despite being nominated for an award, Michelle Obama did not attend the 66th annual Grammy Awards, Elle reported. The former first lady ended up winning for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times.

Other nominees for the category included William Shatner, Meryl Streep, Rick Rubin, and Senator Bernie Sanders. This was Obama's second time winning the award, but she was nowhere to be found.

The former first lady previously won Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books, & Storytelling) in 2020 for her book Becoming, which was a New York Times best-seller. Obama celebrated her nomination for that award in 2019 with a post on Instagram.

"So thrilled to receive a #GRAMMYs nomination! This past year has been such a meaningful, exhilarating ride," Obama posted at the time.

"I've loved hearing your stories and continuing down the road of becoming together. Thank you for every ounce of love and support you've shared so generously," she added.

The book was chock full of Obama's charges of a racist America despite the fact that her husband, former President Barack Obama, won the presidency twice. The New York Times wrote a glowing review in 2018.

"She emerges in these pages as a first lady who steadfastly believed in her husband’s abilities but had no illusions that the sludge of partisanship and racism would melt away under the sunny slogans of hope and change," the Times said. It went on to quote her in one of those supposed instances.

"They would fight everything Barack did, I realized, whether it was good for the country or not. It seemed they just wanted Barack to fail," Michelle Obama whined about her experience watching her husband give a speech in Congress.

The former first lady's The Light We Carry was a self-aggrandizing book during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was her hubristic attempt to impart her great wisdom to the masses, and the Recording Academy ate it up.

"Everyone was asking for some answers of how to cope. And for some reason they were asking me, ‘What do you do?’ I had to start thinking about that," Michelle Obama said in 2023 about the book that garnered her second award.

"Over the 58 years that I’ve lived, I can look back and I can say, this is how I deal with fear. These are the things I say to myself when I need to pick myself up," she added.

"This is how I stay visible in a world that doesn’t necessarily see a tall Black woman. This is how I stay armored up when I’m attacked. The book is that offering," Michelle Obama said.

The former first lady and her husband continue to be pop culture icons for leftists everywhere despite giving the world President Joe Biden, who was the vice president under Barack Obama. With her recent Grammy win, the couple have two awards each.

Michelle Obama hasn't explained her absence at the award show publicly. Perhaps her hubris makes her believe she is too important for awards shows, even as she'll happily pander to rack up their accolades.