HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Tina Fey has opened up for the first time about her trademark facial scar, admitting that she suffered a traumatic experience as a child.
Fey tells Vanity Fair that when she was 5, a stranger approached her and cut her cheek while she was playing in the front yard of her Pennsylvania home.
"It's impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it," she reveals in the magazine's January issue, according to People.
The "30 Rock" star's husband, Jeff, adds that his wife "just thought somebody marked her with a pen" at the time.
Fey, 38, says the traumatic incident didn't impact her childhood and only became a constant reminder when she launched her acting career.
"I proceeded unaware of it. I was a very confident little kid," she explains. "It's really almost like I'm kind of able to forget about it, until I was on-camera."
Fey, who has a 3-year-old daughter, Alice, with her husband of seven years, says she's been warned about the potential impact of the experience in later years.
"Supposedly, I will go crazy," she shares. "My therapist says, 'When Alice is the age that you were, you may go crazy.' "
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