By Mark Gray
11:50am PST, Nov 7, 2023
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Oh, lord!
Kat Von D is getting into detail about her decision to ditch "witchcraft" and turn to Jesus. On a November 2023 episode of the "Relatable" podcast, the "L.A. Ink" alum explained that COVID lockdowns forced her to reevaluate her "perspectives," and she soon found herself longing for spirituality. The former reality TV star admits to being "miserable" during the pandemic: She realized that the choices she and her husband, Leafar Seyer, made "obviously [haven't] worked for us."
"I'm on fire for Jesus. I don't plan on this dimming out," she added.
Keeping clicking to learn more about Kat's decision to turn to Christianity and to leave witchcraft behind…
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Kat Von D was born in Mexico to parents who were Christian missionaries. When she moved to the United States at age 6 with her parents, Kat began "straying" from Christianity. The makeup mogul admits that during her teenage years, she began "resenting" the church and getting into tarot cards, mediation camps and spiritual retreats.
"As I got into my 20s, I started looking — without knowing — into new age stuff," she said. Soon, she began reading and gathering occult books.
Now 41, Kat no longer has a relationship with that lifestyle.
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When the COVID pandemic began, Kat Von D started "re-evaluating" her life.
"Going down the list of what I'm doing with my life and what my perspectives are, and then it got to the part of my spirituality and that's where I started really rethinking a lot of things," she said. Kat eventually started watching sermons every Sunday.
"I just desired more and more and more and so I just started studying the Bible," she said.
Before long, the Bible became her book of choice. She began to see her occult books, meanwhile, as "crutches."
"I came to this really awesome realization that night that I don't want these crutches in my life anymore – and that's what I really saw them as. I just want Jesus," she said. "I feel like it's a very narrow road. I feel like these breathing techniques or spellwork or nature worship – all of these things are just crutches. They're not really my answer. I would rather eliminate any distractions and this is just what works for me."
In 2022, she revealed that she had gotten rid of all her witchcraft literature.
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Now, Kat Von D is following a spiritual path that even saw her recently getting baptized.
"I'm on fire for Jesus. I don't plan on this dimming out," she said. "The more and more I learn the more and more excited I get about things and the more at ease I am about what's happening in this world and what's happening in my marriage or in all of it."
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Learning religion as an adult is more "meaningful and real than it is when you're a child," Kat Von D said.
She also believes she's happier than friends who still practice witchcraft.
"The ones that are dictating their life through tarot or some of the witchcraft stuff, even the meditation stuff… they're all so miserable," Kat said. "They're the most broke people, usually most of them are single, they don't have stability — and I'm talking both financial and the love around them. There's always this drama and dread and doom and gloom, and I was one of them. I would look around at the Christian friends and they're not perfect by any means but I [thought], 'I want what you have, I want the light that you have.'"
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Although Kat Von D admired her Christian friends for their "light," it was also Christians, in general, who gave her the most hate about her baptism.
"You would think all the hate would be coming from people who are against religion or against Christianity. It was really the Christians who were the worst," she said on Instagram. "It was really sad to see this critical display of judgment from Christians … because that isn't Christ-like to judge people or judge people's journey."
On the "Relatable" podcast, she said people accused her of "faking" the religious ceremony or doing it as a publicity stunt.
"I'm not an idiot. I knew that when I posted that video that people would have questions," she said, adding that it was "one of the most important days" of her life.
"To publicly proclaim this was me setting some things right. It was important to me to share that because I could have just kept it to myself and just kept going on but I was like, no, this is something I want to celebrate and I want to be open and honest about it," she said.
