Page Six.After a suspicious fan asked Mike to elaborate, the film critic said, "He even showed his hand, which is already done.
He said it takes 3-4 hours in the makeup chair to cover them, so he figured 'it would be easier to get them burned off.'"The decision is an about-face from his comments last year, in which he spoke to Inked magazine about his body art."It's just a release," he said of getting tattooed. "When [I'm] so manic and upset, sometimes that's the only thing that will work for me."Pete has made changes to his ink before, particularly after he and Ariana Grande ended their engagement.