Bam Margera Says ‘I Was Pronounced Dead’ After Suffering Five Seizures, Pneumonia in December: ‘Each Seizure Lasted 10 to 20 Minutes’ - Variety

Bam Margera reunited with his erstwhile “Jackass” collaborator Steve-O connected the astir caller occurrence of the latter’s “Wild Ride” podcast and opened up astir his December 2022 hospitalization. News broke Dec. 9 that Margera had been enactment connected a ventilator and was incapable to respire connected his ain aft contracting pneumonia. Margera revealed to Steve-O that his pneumonia was lone 1 origin down his hospitalization, arsenic helium besides suffered 5 antithetic seizures.

“Basically, I was pronounced dormant connected Dec. 8,” Margera said. “I did not cognize that I had gnarly COVID and my assemblage was shutting down. I went into 4 seizures, each 1 lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the 4th 1 I spot my lingua truthful hard it was astir fallen off. It got truthful swollen and puffy it wouldn’t acceptable successful my mouth. I was drinking the infected humor which gave maine pneumonia arsenic well.”

Margera continued, “I went to the infirmary and had my 5th seizure and past couldn’t respire without a conduit down my throat. I woke up 5 days aboriginal reasoning I was determination for conscionable a mates hours. I spent 8 days successful there. When they took that conduit retired I felt similar I sucked connected Darth Vader’s dick.”

Steve-O recalled speechmaking the quality astir Margera being enactment connected a ventilator and reasoning the “Jackass” prima would suffer his life. Margera and Steve-O some got their commencement successful Hollywood connected the MTV prank-stunt series, but Margera was not progressive successful past year’s diagnostic movie “Jackass Forever” due to the fact that helium broke a clause successful his declaration that required him to enactment sober during production.

Margera filed a lawsuit past August against Paramount and “Jackass” ringleader Johnny Knoxville implicit the firing, claiming the creators coerced him into signing the “wellness agreement” for the movie portion helium was inactive successful rehab. The suit alleged that Margera was fired aft investigating affirmative for Adderall, adjacent though helium had an Adderall medicine for 10 years. The suit was yet settled.

Watch Margera’s afloat interrogation connected Steve-O’s “Wild Ride” podcast below.