Jelly Roll Expresses Tattoo Regret, Cites Staph Infections as Consequence

Country singer Jelly Roll once again discussed some regrets he has about his tattoos, including the fact that he got multiple staph infections during the process.

The 40-year-old spoke on the topic during a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show.

The radio show host brought up how Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason DeFord, previously did an interview in which he talked about wishing he never got some of his tattoos. “I regret 98% of these tattoos, 97, almost all of them. Like core philosophies are rooted in my life when I was 17 and now I’m 40, I’m like, ‘What the f*** was I thinking?’”

When asked if his face tattoos were the ones he regretted most, Jelly Roll replied, “That’s probably one of the few I’d keep,” he said. “I love my cross, I love my slash.”

“It’s these…so, listen to me…if you are out there listening this morning and you’re under the age of 25 and you are considering getting tattoos, I’d like to give you some wisdom that nobody gave me,” the singer continued. “We will spend $300 on a pair of f***ing shoes that will go bad in six months. But as soon as a motherf***** wants $400 an hour to tattoo we’re out, $1,000 an hour, no way.”

He added, “I have a tattoo on my arm that I gave somebody a quarter sack of bad weed for. And it looks like a quarter sack of bad weed tattoo.”

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“They look decent because they’re all grouped together, so you’re like, ‘They don’t look horrible, Jelly,’” he went on. “But until you dissect them and zoom in you’re like, ‘These suck bad.’ It’s just bad art. There’s no other way to say it.”

Stern brought up that sometimes tattoos are done in unhygienic environments, prompting Jelly Roll to reply, “Oh yeah, listen, I’ve gotten staph infections from bad tattoos. I’ve learned nothing.”

He went on, “You talk about bull-headed. And I still went back to the same guy that gave me the staph infection. It’s crazy what you’ll do, is next level crazy.”

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