On a wild summer’s night in Los Angeles, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox explain their whirlwind courtship, from first meeting on set to their deepening spiritual connection, and how love has seared them together for life… through joint tattoos

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly

In the backroom of a studio, Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are giving each other tattoos while I watch.

The lovebirds’ matching tattoos will read, ‘The darkest fairytale’, a phrase Fox says ‘alludes back to one of the first text messages we ever sent each other’.

Fox wants to get inked first, because MGK has tattooed before and she’d rather not delay the pain. MGK clarifies he’s done some drunk scrawling with the tattoo gun before, but this is serious. He dips the needle in ink, presses down on the traced phrase and looks at Fox to make sure she’s OK.

Fox puffs on a CBD joint to relax and they both decide they might as well just jump into it. He starts going over the stencil with the needle, pausing sometimes to take stock of his work and wipe the pen ink. ‘God, that’s sick,’ he says as she looks at his handiwork. He smiles at Fox. It’s going very well, but they could use more direct light.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly: “I am weed.”

This is how I find myself holding my iPhone flashlight over Machine Gun Kelly’s pelvis while he reclines on a green velvet chaise. Fox, clad in a flannel shirt, crouches over him and places the tattoo stencil along his hip.

While they had originally wanted to have the tattoos on their respective inner-arm veins, MGK is absolutely covered in tats already, from his stomach anarchy symbol to a giant ‘MGK’ back piece. To find a place where the tattoo wouldn’t get lost, they have to go further south.

Fox presses the inked tattoo needle into his skin while he encourages her to go harder. A few minutes later, she’s done. ‘I’m just scared that I fucked it up!’ she exclaims nervously. He reassures her instantly: ‘Fucking best tattoo I’ve ever seen in my life.’ Fox thinks she went too light, but they’ll let it heal and go over it later. ‘It looks like a fairy ghost did it, right?’ MGK says. ‘It’s all haunted.’ She laughs at that and they kiss.

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly kiss

‘Oh, Point Break is the best – he had never seen it,’ Fox adds. ‘True Romance was his choice.’

‘I love a dark fairy tale,’ he confirms.

MGK and Fox say they really met for the first time in 2020 on the set of the action flick Midnight In The Switchgrass, but they actually met briefly a few years before that, introduced at a GQ party in LA. ‘This weird thing happened,’ says Fox. ‘We didn’t see each other.’ She looks at him. ‘Do you remember [seeing] my face?’

‘That’s what’s crazy,’ he says, ‘I don’t. I don’t remember your face.’

‘I don’t remember your face… And I definitely would have remembered his face,’ she continues. ‘I just remember this tall, blond, ghostly creature and I looked up and I was like, “You smell like weed.” He looked down at me and he was like, “I am weed.” Then, I swear to God, he disappeared like a ninja in a smoke bomb.’