America’s favorite chaotic sweetheart, Pete Davidson, is keeping it 100 about his childhood — and spoiler alert: it wasn’t exactly sunshine and lollipops.
The 31-year-old human embodiment of a “lol but actually I’m sad” meme opened up about losing his dad, Scott Davidson, a firefighter who tragically died during the 9/11 attacks.
In a new interview with IconicHipster.com, Pete got brutally honest:
“I had a really sh–ty childhood and, like, the worst thing that ever could have happened to me, happened when I was seven.”
Translation: if childhood was a video game, Pete’s was set on “Dark Souls: Nightmare Mode” from the start.
But in true Pete fashion, he’s managed to turn a lifetime’s worth of trauma into a tight five and a movie deal. He also shared how all that pain rewired the way he vibes with the world:
“At the end of the day, it’s like, your family matters, your two or three friends matter. Everybody else can go f–k themselves.”
Honestly? Put that on a T-shirt, tattoo it on my forehead, and send it to my therapist. Pete out here dropping life advice like it’s free samples at Costco.
He added that learning this perspective is “sort of newer” for him — which is impressive because, given what he’s been through, most people would’ve just become full-time goblins by now. Instead, Pete’s been doing the work, healing the trauma, and somehow still finding time to date half of Hollywood.
So yeah, next time you’re stressing about that one random person who didn’t like your Instagram story, just remember: Pete Davidson said they can go kick rocks. And honestly? King behavior.
