Tina Fey’s scar story
For those (like me) who have wondered about that scar on Tina Fey’s left cheek, at last there’s an answer. Fey and her husband were interviewed for a cover piece in the January Vanity Fair, which taps Fey as the new American sweetheart.
In the interview, Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Fey’s face when she was 5 years old. According to Richmond, the incident occurred in the front yard of her house.
“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen. … That scar was fascinating to me. This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life,” he said.
Fey said talking about the attack would seem like exploiting it.
“It’s really almost like I’m able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of ‘Oh, I guess we should use this side’ or whatever. Everybody’s got a better side,” said Fey.
Other bits from the interview:
On her Palin imitation: “I feel clean about it. All these jokes were fair hits.”
On her Republican parents: “I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom’s only instruction was ‘You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.’ That’s my welcome to adulthood. She’s like, ‘No, don’t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever.’” (Fey made a call to arrange for Richmond’s excited Republican parents and sister to meet Palin at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.)
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