Carson Daly Recalls Covering up Jennifer Love Hewitt Tattoo

Carson Daly recalled on Today that he has an unusual tattoo meant to cover up ink for an ex.

The TRL alum has said before that the former girlfriend is actress and singer Jennifer Love Hewitt. Daly and the I Know What You Did Last Summer star dated in the late ’90s.

In the late ’90s, MTV‘s Daly and Hewitt were hotter than baby barrettes. Of course, the tattoo enthusiast got her name inked on his ankle.

As Daly shared with Jenna Bush Hager on Today, concealing it following their predictable breakup proved to be quite a challenge.

“I dated another girl who said, ‘That’s gotta go!'” Daly told Hager, Yahoo Entertainment reported.

“Like, first things first, that name on your ankle’s gotta go. And I was getting a new tattoo in Hell’s Kitchen here — I’d been in the chair for like six hours — and I told my guy, I was like, ‘Oh, my god! I forgot. You’ve gotta just do something with the ex.’,” Daly said.

The ink master happened to have an experiment in mind that he was eager to attempt, making Daly his guinea pig.

“An hour later,” Daly recalled, “I look down, and now I have, it’s a crab claw coming out of a pocket knife.”

He added, “let me say that again,” before repeating the odd description. “And it’s a cover-up,” Daly emphasized. “It used to have the ex girl’s name.”

Even though neither Hager nor Daly mentioned her by name during the segment, he has previously identified her as the Party of Five star. He recommended others “don’t put a tattoo on your body that you might want to remove.”

Hager theorized that Daly hadn’t even thought he and the tattoo honoree would break up.

“No, I was drunk on the Jersey Shore,” Daly deadpanned.

He hasn’t had to worry about girlfriends for years. The Voice host married Siri Pinter, with whom he has four kids, in 2015. For her part, Hewitt married fellow actor Brian Hallisay in 2013, and they have three children.

Daly and Hewitt remain friendly after an allegedly bad breakup, according to Entertainment Weekly.