Forehead diamond hits rough patch with health insurer

Lil Uzi Vert

A rapper’s health insurance company couldn’t wrap its head around its client’s decision to implant a diamond on his forehead, and nearly canceled his policy as a result.

According to a piece on the entertainment news site Showbiz Cheat Sheet, Lil Uzi Vert’s $24 million implant — so placed in 2021 as to not misplace the valuable jewel, according to the artist’s own admission — caused his health insurance company to rethink its risk.

“My insurance tried to cut me off. They were like, ‘This kid’s trying to kill himself.’ They really were. Because we knew it was a piercing, my insurance looked at it like, ‘O.K., this kid just implanted this diamond in his head. He’s gonna die,’” Lil Uzi Vert said during a podcast, as reported on Showbiz Cheat Sheet.

To avoid losing coverage, he said he had to prove to his insurer that his piercing was done in a safe way and wasn’t going to hurt him. “I really had to call the piercing person and show them low-key everything, like, it’s literally a piercing,” he said, adding that to date “everything is straight.”