As for why the comedian decided to cover his body in tattoos in the first place? Pete previously confessed it was to hide scars from his self-harm.
“That’s why I started getting tats on my chest, to cover them,” he said in a February 2020 interview with Charlamagne Tha God. “When I get really angry or upset, it feels really good to just get needled up or get a tat.”
Now that he’s in a healthier headspace, Pete has been able to reflect on his choices.
“I made a lot of those decisions before rehab, so I have the dumbest tattoos,” he explained on the Feb. 6 episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers. “I got a collection of cartoons smoking blunts like a muppet smoking a blunt, the Tootsie Pop owl smoking a blunt.”
But as he noted, “When I’m 40, it’ll all be gone. Chest and back.”
Read on to learn what other stars have said about their mental health journeys.
—Reporting by Ashley Bellman
