BREAKING: Pete Davidson has cleaned up his act, and I couldn’t be happier for the guy who embodies outer-borough spirit…see more

It was a welcome change from his former look — a scrawny, scribbled-on frame that could have been mistaken for a graffitied wall on the Lower East Side.

And the world on the other side of that door seems pretty sweet for Davidson, who New York has watched grow up. “I was a sad boy,” he recently told Jimmy Fallon in his trademark self-deprecating manner. “It was a weird time.”

He also copped to the obvious: His taste in the curation of his body art was, um, questionable. SpongeBob, at least six Harry Potter tattoos, a toaster and the word “Warning“ were some of the masterpieces he chose.

“I made a lot of those decisions when, you know, before rehab. So I got the dumbest tattoos,” Davidson told Seth Meyers.

The actual process, he admitted, was worse than getting inked. But he’s clearly committed. And it’s impossible to not root for the guy — for his well-being, sanity and stability.