Chad Michael Murray is opening up about the meaning behind the cross tattoo on his wrist.
The 43-year-old One Tree Hill actor dished the details during an appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show.
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Chad says he got the tattoo on his 25th birthday.
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“I remember it was my 25th birthday. I woke up and I just, I didn’t feel good. I was like, I don’t really like the guy that I am. I was pretty positive, like I don’t like that guy and I knew who I wanted to be. I just didn’t know how to get there,” he said.
He continued, “So I made a decision that day in good old Wilmington North Carolina, I went and got a tattoo….That was like step one tattoo. Seems like it’s in the opposite direction…So it’s a cross. It’s the idea of it can be what you make it. And I started there and I started surrounding myself with older people who I respected, who had lived lives and had made mistakes and errors along the way and just started trying to become a little bit more like them and seeing their jovial spirits bounce around and I just made a lot of different decisions. Now, did that push me away from a lot of people? Oh, yeah. You know how that goes?”
“And things fall by the wayside and that was kind of the beginning of it. And I always ask myself, I said, you know, every time I’d go to therapy or whatever, I was doing whatever hard decisions I made, I said, just remember you’re doing this for your future wife and kids. And, yeah, I was just doing it because I just wanted to be a great husband and a great father,” Chad added.
Watch the interview below!