In Tina Fey’s January 2009 cover story with Vanity Fair Magazine, the comedienne’s husband reveals the history behind the prominent scar on her left cheek.

Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Tina’s face in the front yard of her house when she was 5 years old.

“That scar was fascinating to me. This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life.”