The actor, whose new movie 'Dog Man' is out now, previously told PEOPLE he planned to remove his tattoos by the age of 30Pete Davidson paid a pretty penny to tone down his tattoos. A source tells PEOPLE that the actor and Saturday Night Live alum,

The 31 year old told Jimmy Fallon that he plans to keep "two or three" of his approximately 200 tattoos because he wants a "clean slate."

Pete Davidson detailed the painful process of 'burning off' nearly all of his 200 tattoos — and jokingly urged folks to 'really think about' that 'Game of Thrones' ink they've been considering.

Pete Davidson opened up about removing his 200 tattoos, saying that he plans to keep only "two or three" of them. On 'Today,' the comedian described the painful removal process as "horrible."

Pete Davidson is opening up about his tattoo removal process. On the Jan. 31 episode of TODAY, Davidson, 31, revealed why he wanted to get his 100+ tattoos removed from his body. "I got sober and I saw myself in the mirror, and I was like nah. I was like, I need to change it up a little bit," he said.

Davidson once had “probably 200” tattoos that he started removing in 2021. “I was a sad boy,” he told host Jimmy Fallon. “It was a weird time. I don’t know, everyone was getting tattoos, like, five years ago. Post Malone was like, ‘Always tired,’ and I was like, ‘Me too, dude, I’m always tired.’”

Pete Davidson is proving that erasing the past is no easy feat as he nears the end of his body modification process.