Jackass star Bam Margera has confirmed that he was “mainly pronounced lifeless” after creating seizures and contracting a blood an infection.
Chatting with his good friend and co-star Steve-O on Steve-O’s Wild Journey! podcast, Margera revealed what occurred throughout his near-death expertise. He defined that Covid despatched his well being right into a tailspin, which resulted in him struggling 5 seizures after which he was positioned in a hospital ICU ward on life help.
“I mainly was pronounced lifeless on Elvis’ birthday December 8,” he defined (although it’s value noting Elvis was born on January 8). “I didn’t know that I had gnarly Covid, that my physique was shutting down. And, er… I went into 4 seizures – each lasting 10 to twenty minutes.
“On the fourth one I bit my tongue so exhausting it was practically falling off. It received so swollen and puffy that it wouldn’t slot in my mouth, and I used to be ingesting the contaminated blood which gave me pneumonia [sic].”
He went on to disclose {that a} fifth seizure ensured that he “couldn’t breathe and not using a tube down my throat”, including that he spent “eight days” unconscious in hospital. Speaking about his response to waking up within the hospital, he mentioned: “Dude, after they took that tube out I felt like I’d sucked on Darth Vader’s dick!”
The previous pro-skater had beforehand alluded to the wrestle he confronted on this newest well being setback, sharing an image of him within the hospital ward (see above). He captioned it: “Pronounced Useless on December eighth, Elvis birthday. Life help for 10 days on pneumonia and Covid.”
Margera recovered sufficient to attend an Amon Amarth gig at SOMA in San Diego on December 16. The present was a part of the Swedish melodic demise metallic band’s headlining tour in help of their newest album ‘The Nice Heathen Military’.
The previous MTV star accomplished a 12-month therapy plan for alcohol and drug abuse earlier this yr. He was beforehand taken to rehab by police in September 2021 after an incident at a on line casino in Tampa Bay, Florida.
In April of this yr he settled a lawsuit and requested for a case to be dismissed, after suing Jackass Eternally‘s producers following his dismissal from the movie over a constructive drug check. An unique go well with noticed him declare that the firing was a violation of his civil rights and alleged that it broke the phrases of his contract.
Late on in 2022 Jackass‘s Johnny Knoxville expressed his want that his former co-star Margera would “get properly”.