Pete Davidson’s Controversial Confession About Being a Girl Dad Has People up in Arms: ‘Disgusting Creep’
Pete Davidson hasn’t been a dad for very long, but he’s already had to adjust his routine — and it’s making people extremely uncomfortable. The Saturday Night Live alum made an out-of-pocket joke about raising his daughter, Scottie, 4 months, with girlfriend Elsie Hewitt, and people are calling him a “disgusting creep.”
At The Fountainebleau in Las Vegas on April 11, Davidson made the controversial confession about dad life. “I haven’t done stand-up in 5 months because I just had a baby, so it’s a lot of fun,” he said, per E! News. But then things took a turn. “I had a little girl,” he went on. “It’s weird having a little girl. It’s hard to watch porn…in front of her. But, uh, I still did.”
He added, “I powered through. No, it’s great.”
Davidson’s joke was criticized on social media, with some taking to X to call out the comedian. One person wrote, “Men who sexualize birth & having daughters are the lowest forms of disgusting creep to me. … Why do men constantly relate every sexual experience they’ve had with a woman to their DAUGHTER?”
Another wrote, “Burying the lead here Pete Davidson is actually joking about child endangerment via sexual exposure the child is 5 months old which is old enough for to retain trauma meaning this joke is just childhood sexual abuse of his own daughter.”
“Yes, Pete. Guess what. Women in porn are human beings just like your daughter,” someone else said. “If porn is dehumanizing for her, its dehumanizing for all women and girls.”
In a January appearance on The Late Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Davidson opened up about a real problem that new parents experience: changing diapers. “All the cliches are true. It’s so much fun. It’s nuts!” Davidson told host Jimmy Fallon about parenting. Although the poop situation isn’t so much fun. “They crap so much. They crap while they’re crapping,” he added. “Then you’ll put ointment on, and then they’ll be like, ‘psych!’ and then crap again.”
There are definitely some totally disgusting moments with babies, but watching porn in front of them shouldn’t be one. Yes, it was a joke — no one thinks he’s actually watching sexually explicit adult content in front of his baby — but it was still crass and tasteless and seems to normalize exposing kids to inappropriate content. Do better, Davidson — both for your daughter and or everyone listening in.