Pete Davidson shows off tattoo removal progress after mental health treatment

Pete Davidson has seemingly cleaned up his enactment — figuratively and literally.

The 30-year-old comedian was photographed this week for the archetypal clip since checking himself into a intelligence wellness installation successful July. Stepping retired alongside Machine Gun Kelly, the erstwhile “SNL” prima attended astatine a sneak preview of The Room astatine Intuit Dome, the recently designed location of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Sporting a reddish FDNY short-sleeve shirt, Davidson’s bare arms noticeably showed a batch less tattoos than they had before.

Machine Gun Kelly, left, and Pete Davidson are pictured astatine a sneak preview of The Room astatine Intuit Dome successful Inglewood, California, connected Oct. 23, 2024. (Photo by Virisa Yong / BFA.com / Shutterstock)

A longtime instrumentality of assemblage art, Davidson astatine 1 clip had implicit 70 tattoos, inspired by everything from past relationships to his hometown of New York to his favourite songs and films.

He antecedently said helium started getting tattoos to cover up scars from cutting his chest arsenic a signifier of self-harm.

“That’s wherefore I started getting tats connected my chest, to screen them,” helium told Inked Mag successful 2020. “When [I’m] truthful manic and upset, sometimes that’s the lone happening that volition enactment for me.”

Later that year, Davidson revealed helium planned to commencement getting his tattoos removed. In 2021, helium confirmed his tendency to person them all removed by the property of 30, contempt it being a agelong and incredibly achy process.

During an interrogation connected “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” helium cited his nonrecreational acting aspirations arsenic a motivator.

“It takes, like, 3 hours — you person to get [to set], like, 3 hours earlier — to screen each your tattoos,” helium said of having his ink covered with constitution for his assorted movie and TV projects.

In January 2023, Davidson was photographed shirtless connected the beach, and seemingly had respective of his tattoos already removed, including all the ones dedicated to ex-girlfriend Kim Kardashian.

Davidson’s latest task is the drama flick “Riff Raff,” starring Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Harris, Gabrielle Union and Bill Murray. The movie premiered connected Sept. 6 astatine the Toronto International Film Festival, which helium did not attend.