Comedian and Saturday Night Live alumn Pete Davidson has further opened up about the ongoing painful process of removing all of his 200 tattoos, and the eye-watering amount it’s cost him so far.
Back in March, the former SNL star revealed that he’d started getting his tattoos removed five years ago during COVID-19. Now, he’s giving more insight behind the costly move.
In an interview with Variety, Davidson revealed that he is only “30 per cent done” so far.
“It’s a pretty uncomfortable amount of money to disclose, but I think one of the tabloids already leaked it,” he said.
“I’ve already spent like $200K USD and I’m like 30 per cent done. So, like, it’s gonna suck.”
Davidson hypothesised that the tattoo removal business will become even bigger in the next ten years, but tattoos might eventually become “cool again” later down the line.
“I know the stock market’s gone, but tattoo removal will be the biggest business in the next five to ten years.
“And then they’ll be cool again in 10 years, right? But right now, it’s out. I mean, bell bottoms are back for fucks sake.”
Davidson also said that his tattoos remind him of the “sad person” he used to be.
“I used to be a drug addict and I was a sad person, and I felt ugly and that I needed to be covered up,” he said.
“So I’m just removing them and starting fresh, because that’s what I think works best for me and for my brain.
When I look in the mirror, I don’t want the reminder of ‘Oh yeah, you were a fucking drug addict. Like, that’s why you have SpongeBob smoking a joint on your back’.”
Davidson also opened up about the procedure of removing his tattoos, which he reckons will take “another 10 years” before he is tattoo-less, and will cost “hundreds of thousands more dollars”. Davidson’s arms, hands, and neck are almost completely ink-free since he first started the process.
“I have to plan it in between work because it’s a six-week healing process each time you get one removed. So each tattoo is 10 to 12 sessions,” the comedian continued.
“It’s like putting your arm on a grill and burning off a layer. It sucks, I’m not gonna lie.”
Speaking to Page Six at a New York screening of Riff Raff back in March, Davidson said that he was “still going strong” with removing all of his ink.
“It’s still going strong, arms are almost all gone, working on the torso,” Davidson said.
“It’s a lot.”
When asked about how painful the process is, Davidson didn’t mince his words.
“It’s terrible. They burn off your skin and then you’ve got to do it 10 more times,” he said.
“I think if you can invest in any business, I think you should invest in the tattoo removal business.”
Davidson made the decision to remove all of his tattoos back in 2020, revealing to film critic Mike McGranagan that “it would be easier” than having them constantly covered up by makeup.
“He said it takes three to four hours in the makeup chair to cover them, so he figured it would be easier to get them burned off,” McGranagan said.
Davidson previously made an appearance at SNL’s 50th anniversary special and rubbed shoulders with a healthy heaping of celebs also at the event – even managing to sit next to Hollywood legend Meryl Streep.
“I was just so nervous because I didn’t want to bother her,” Davidson told Page Six.
“She was so nice – not that that’s so surprising. She was so nice to me. We had a really good conversation and we were both just in awe of what was happening.”
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