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Pete Davidson Makes Rare Public Appearance, Sans Tattoos
Pete Davidson resurfaced looking healthy and in good spirits alongside his longtime pal Machine Gun Kelly at a Los Angeles Clippers game this week. The 30-year-old comedian has been keeping a low profile since canceling multiple dates on his comedy tour over the summer, as he checked into a wellness facility to seek treatment for his mental health.
The pair were photographed at the team's opening game at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, CA, on Wednesday night. And Davidson was also sporting a noticeable change, as the copious tattoos that once covered his neck and arms appeared drastically faded or completely gone due to laser tattoo removal. He was also wearing a red Fire Dept. of New York shirt in tribute to his father Scott Matthew Davidson, a New York City firefighter who died on 9/11.
Davidson's departure from the spotlight comes after he performed more than 200 stand-up shows across the country earlier this year. He also has planned stops in Kansas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, and Texas in late summer and fall before pulling the plug on his tour. The cancelations were announced just two months after the former Saturday Night Live star reportedly walked off stage at a comedy show in Omaha, NE due to relentless heckling from the audience.
As far as his disappearing tattoos, Davidson got candid in a May 2021 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers that he was getting his ink removed due to his burgeoning movie career.
"It takes like three hours—you have to get there three hours earlier to cover all your tattoos, because for some reason, people in movies, they don’t have them that much," he told host Seth Meyers at the time. "So now I am burning them off, but burning them off is worse than getting them."
"Before he goes to laser each tattoo, you hear him announce what the tattoo is to make sure if you want to keep it or not," he continued. "So I will be sitting there all high off the [nitrous oxide] … and then all of a sudden I’ll hear, 'Are we keeping the Stewie Griffin smoking a blunt?' And I have to sit there and be like, 'No, Dr. G.'"