Pete Davidson recently became a father, when his partner Elsie Hewitt gave birth to a baby girl in December 2025, and already it’s obvious how serious he takes his role. Undoubtedly at least some of that has to be because he grew up without his father, Scott Davidson, a New York firefighter who died in the 9/11 attacks at 33 years old. The Saturday Night Live alum got candid about his father’s heroic sacrifice and the bittersweet realization that came with it.
Comedy has clearly been a coping mechanism for Pete Davidson’s grief over the years, because anyone who’s seen him do standup or a Comedy Central Roast has likely heard the jokes he’s made about Scott Davidson’s 2001 death. However, he kept it serious when talking to Michael Gandolfini — whose father James Gandolfini died in 2013 at 51 — during an interview on The Pete Davidson Show (available with a Netflix subscription). Davidson said:
