Pete Davidson is “trying to be an adult” — a tattoo-less adult, that is.
The “Saturday Night Live” star described the “horrible” process of removing his ink on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Thursday night, revealing how many he plans to keep.
“Maybe, like, two or three,” the actor, 31, said despite “trying to clean slate it.”
Davidson clarified to host Jimmy Fallon that he had “probably, like, 200” tattoos, most of which are “almost gone” now.
The comedian pushed up his sleeves to show off his bare arms as proof.
“I’ve been burning them off,” he said, claiming that the process felt “worse” than getting tattooed in the first place.
“They burn off a layer of your skin, then it has to heal for six to eight weeks,” Davidson noted. “You can’t get in the sunlight. And then you’ve got to do it, like, 12 more times.”
The “King of Staten Island” star urged the audience to “really think about that ‘Game of Thrones’ tattoo you’re thinking of getting.”
As for why he got so many tattoos in the first place, the “Guy Code” alum said, “I was a sad boy. … It was a weird time. I don’t know. Everybody was getting tattoos, like, five years ago. Remember that?”
Davidson has been hard at work removing his ink since 2021, giving occasional glimpses of his progress.
He revealed his motivation during a “Late Night With Seth Meyers” interview at the time, breaking down the effect his tattoos’ have had on his acting career.
“For some reason, people in movies, they don’t have them that much,” the “Bodies Bodies Bodies” star quipped.
He noted that it can take “three hours” in a makeup chair to cover his ink.
While Davidson did not identify the tattoos he plans to keep Thursday, he has made headlines for portraits of Hillary Clinton and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The “Wild ‘N Out” alum has also tattooed tributes on his body to then-girlfriends Kim Kardashian, Cazzie David and Ariana Grande.
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