Pete Davidson shares regret about his dating history

Pete Davidson regrets being in the limelight for dating mostly.

The Saturday Night Live alum, 31, feels it's time to change how he's perceived in the entertainment industry.

“I got hit on the face with the Hollywood shovel,” he told W Magazine recently. “It was a long time coming, and I needed it. I’m very happy where I am right now, mentally."

“I just want to be known for doing good work,” he added. “I want to be out there only when it’s [a] movie, stand-up, charity, or business ventures. That’s when I want to be seen. I don’t want to be this f****** loser who just dates people. That’s not who I am.”

The comedian–who has been romantically linked to Madelyn Cline, Kate Beckinsale, Kim Kardashian, and Ariana Grande among other stars–also discussed how he became “oversaturated” in the spotlight.

“In The Sopranos, there’s this line from Tony that’s like, ‘You ever feel like you got into something at the end? When the good times were over?’” the Bupkis star explained. “That’s how I feel about show business and being a celebrity. It’s over.”

With that said, Peterson then added he aspires to make a name for himself like Christian Bale or Leonardo DiCaprio have.

“When you’re first coming up, and getting all these offers, it’s hard to say no, because you’re hungry,” he continued. “I made the mistake of doing literally everything.

"Now I’m older and wiser, and I’m realising that less is more. Like Christian Bale. He does one movie every two, three years, but you go f****** see it. Leo[nardo DiCaprio] does one movie every four years, but it’s the biggest thing in the world.”

“It’s because you miss them. People have to miss you,” he hypothesised.

Peterson has gotten candid about his dating history before as well, particularly to defend his choices made earlier.

"I'm in my 20's and I've dated people. And for some reason, that's very crazy and interesting to people. I don't think it's interesting," he said on Real Ones podcast in March 2023. "I've been in show business for, like, half my life almost — for 14 or 15 years and on a national TV show. In 12 years I've dated 10 people.”

He added: “I don't think that's that crazy, but to some people, that's very interesting. That became all anyone would talk about."

He went on to justify that his relationships have come about organically.

"I'm not, like, flexing, you know what I mean? And these people that I've dated, I met them at work.”

"I wasn't in anyone's DMs, no one was in mine,” he said. “I worked at one of the five Hollywood epicenters of where you meet people and that's how it happened."

"Suddenly you're in this zeitgeist and that has nothing to do with the work," he added. "And that's a really s***** feeling. I became more known before the work was there, but I was always working."