Bam Margera, the troubled former Jackass star, says he barely made it to the brand new 12 months – saying he was “mainly… declared dead” last month.
Appearing in Thursday’s episode “Steve-O’s Wild Ride!” podcast43–The year-old skateboarder told his former co-worker, 48-year-old Steve-O, about his recent hospitalization.
Margera explained that a “serious” case of COVID-19 sent him to the hospital where his “body turned off” because he had 4 seizures, each lasting 10 to 20 minutes.
“On the fourth, I bit my tongue so hard it almost fell off,” he said.
“It was swollen and swollen and couldn’t slot in my mouth, and I was drinking infected blood, which also gave me pneumonia, so when the shaman took me to the hospital, I had my fifth attack, I could not breathe with out a tube in my throat.”
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He remembered waking up five days later. “We tried to take the tube out, but you were not respiratory on your individual,” he recalled being told by the hospital staff.
“Dude, after they took that tube out, I felt like I sucked Darth Vader,” Margera added with amusing.
The Post reached out to a representative for Margery for comment. He earlier he addressed his medical fear on Instagram from December 10 Posttelling fans that he had come out of a San Diego hospital.
Margera had some tumultuous years. In June, he quit court-appointed rehab due to his high-profile substance abuse problems, sending authorities on a hunt to find him.
After escaping from rehab multiple times, ia sighting in Sarasota, Florida, bar – Marger returned to rehab in September.
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In February 2021 – days after announcing that he was looking for treatment for mental health issues – Margera reported that he had been fired from Jackass Without end because he had tested positive for Adderall, a drug he claimed the team “well knew” that he had been taking for a decade to treat attention deficit disorder.
In August of that 12 months, he filed a lawsuit, claiming he was forced to sign a “health contract” while in rehab in 2019 to star within the 2022 film.
He settled his heated lawsuit for wrongful termination against Johnny Knoxville and the “Jackass” team in April 2022.
Margera filed court papers to dismiss the case and reportedly negotiated a non-public settlement with Knoxville producers Spike Jonze and Jeffrey Tremaine, in addition to Paramount Pictures, MTV, Dickhouse Entertainment and Gorilla Flicks.