Bam Margera Says He Was ‘Mainly Pronounced Lifeless’ After Struggling Seizures & Blood An infection

bam — Picture Credit score: ©2011 RAMEY PHOTO

FILE - This Jan. 14, 2013 file photo shows Bam Margera at the LA premiere of "The Last Stand" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. Margera, star of "Jackass," put several dozen of his own paintings up for sale Tuesday at a barn on his property in West Chester, outside Philadelphia. The 33-year-old Margera let fans know about the art show in a tweet that day. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP, file) — Picture Credit score: ©2011 RAMEY PHOTO

Former Jackass star Bam Margera, 43, sat down together with his former co-star Steve-O, 48, on Jan. 5, to talk about what he’s been as much as throughout an episode of Steve-O’s Wild Experience! podcast. Through the interview, Bam revealed the surprising information that he was “mainly pronounced useless” on Dec. 8, 2022, after he caught a “gnarly” case of COVID-19. “Mainly, I used to be pronounced useless on Dec. 8,” the 43-year-old started. “I didn’t know that I had gnarly COVID and my physique was shutting down.”

The TV character added much more particulars in regards to the well being scares he suffered final month. “I went into 4 seizures, every one lasting 10 to twenty minutes. On the fourth one, I bit my tongue so arduous it was almost fallen off,” Bam shared. “It acquired so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t slot in my mouth. I used to be consuming the contaminated blood which gave me pneumonia as nicely.”

Bam informed Steve-O that he ended up spending a complete of eight days within the hospital because of the intense well being points. “I went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure after which couldn’t breathe and not using a tube down my throat. I awakened 5 days later considering I used to be there for only a couple hours,” he went on. “I spent eight days in there. After they took that tube out I felt like I sucked on Darth Vader’s d***.”

After listening to his pal recall his tough days within the hospital, Steve-O shared that he was frightened Bam would lose his life. “For me, seeing Bam’s on a f****** ventilator… which means you possibly can’t breathe by your self,” the podcast host started. “You’re within the ICU, intensive care unit, in essential however steady situation… I’m simply considering, ‘oh my god that is it.’” Steve-O then informed Bam what his very first thought was to listening to the information of his hospitalization. “What’s horrible is that my first respectable thought was, ‘F****** Bam higher not die dude he’s going to damage my tour,’” he joked.

bam — Bam Margera rose to fame by starring in ‘Jackass’ on MTV. (©2011 RAMEY PHOTO)

Through the episode, Bam additionally revealed that he was locked out of his official Instagram account for someday as a result of he was hacked. Steve-O recalled the truth that Bam needed to ship content material to another person who had maintain of the account. Consequently, Bam went forward and created a separate account. “If I can’t have entry to my Instagram then I can’t observe my mates and see new skate methods or see what anybody’s as much as,” Bam replied. “So I simply began a brand new one and hit observe, observe, observe on all people I was following.”

Each Steve-O and Bam rose to fame within the early aughts after they appeared on the hit MTV collection, Jackass. Later, the duo appeared on a number of spinoffs of the present, along with the Jackass motion pictures. Most lately, Jackass Endlessly was the most recent movie to be launched by the group in 2022.