Sandra Bulllock’s ex-husband Jesse James‘ new girlfriend, tattoo artist Kat Von D would prefer to forget and erase a certain secret and darker stage of her life, which included drugs to lose weight and lots of alcohol.

Kat Von D & Jesse James Holding Hands During Romantic Weekend

According to Oliver Peck, owner of Elm Street Tattoo who was married to the LA Ink star from 2003 to 2007, revealed Kat was constantly struggling to lose weight. Kat’s obsession led her to a destructive path of drugs and alcohol and she even considered having liposuction.

“She’s the most self-centered person I’ve ever been involved with,” he shares. “Toward the end of our marriage,” Oliver claims, “she was wanting to get liposuction, and she was taking drugs in order to lose weight.”

Kat “got to the point where she was drinking until she was throwing up every day,” shares Oliver of the 28-year-old, who finally got sober in 2008. “She’d be incoherent and sometimes destructive.” Oliver says he tried to stand by her — until a friend told him “she was having an affair.”