Hayley Williams announced her divorce from longtime partner Chad Gilbert in July 2017, leaving her with a regrettable tattoo of his initials “CEG” across three of her fingers. She covered them up with three black squares in February 2018. The boxes mean that she no longer has to see his initials, but going for such a dark cover-up makes it much more difficult if she ever wants to have laser removal.

This tattoo is something that Hayley doesn’t want to talk about for obvious reasons. When asked about her latest tattoo in an interview, she joked “how deep do we want to go?” and then proceeded to talk about her second most recent.

The troubles in their relationship are apparent throughout the lyrics of Paramore’s 2017 album After Laughter. Writing those songs actually made Hayley realize that their marriage was beyond saving. In an essay for Nylon, she wrote:

Writing kept me alive. Forced me to be honest….It helped me realize that I shouldn’t have ever married my ex and that love is not something we can just extract from one other.

Brian teve como inspiração o Mês do Orgulho LGBT para a maquiagem da Hayley no Festival #Bonnaroo! ?️‍? [?: Andrew Nelles] #hayleywilliams #paramore #afterlaughter #gooddyeyoung #colormebrian #pride

A post shared by Paramore BR (@paramorebr) on Jun 9, 2018 at 6:23am PDT

Hayley via Instagram Stories! #hayleywilliams #paramore #afterlaughter #tour5 #gooddyeyoung

A post shared by Paramore BR (@paramorebr) on Jul 10, 2018 at 3:02am PDT

?: @codyco9

A post shared by Brian J O'Connor (@colormebrian) on Jul 8, 2018 at 12:42pm PDT

hey look, it’s us. #nationalconcertweek #tixfor20

A post shared by paramore (@paramore) on Apr 30, 2018 at 12:51pm PDT

Hayley Williams covering her Ch*d initial tattoos are my energy. “No tatts to speak of*”… It never even happened. Cut that off. @yelyahwilliams pic.twitter.com/NccbjtnsK6

— Drew! (@drewj6ft7) April 10, 2018

Celebrity: Hayley Williams

Subject:Square

Placement:Finger

Theme:Cover-Up

Style:Silhouette

posted by Linda on July 16, 2018