For years, Tina Fey’s scar on her face has been a mystery – but how did she get it? Tina Fey’s husband finally explains Tina Fey’s scar in the latest Vanity Fair. The scar is a reminder of a tragic incident when she was just five – Tina Fey’s face was slashed by a stranger when she was in the front yard of her home.

Tina Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond explains:
“It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.”

So, why hasn’t Tina Fey explained how she got the scar before? She feels like “it’s impossible to talk about it without somehow seemingly exploiting it and glorifying it.”