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

Former Jackass star Bam Margera, 43, sat down together with his former co-star Steve-O, 48, on Jan. 5, to speak about what he’s been as much as throughout an episode of Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast. Through the interview, Bam revealed the stunning information that he was “principally pronounced useless” on Dec. 8, 2022, after he caught a “gnarly” case of COVID-19. “Principally, 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 persona added much more particulars concerning the well being scares he suffered final month. “I went into 4 seizures, each lasting 10 to twenty minutes. On the fourth one, I bit my tongue so onerous it was practically fallen off,” Bam shared. “It obtained so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t slot in my mouth. I used to be ingesting the contaminated blood which gave me pneumonia as properly.”

Bam advised Steve-O that he ended up spending a complete of eight days within the hospital as a result of 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 awoke 5 days later considering I used to be there for only a couple hours,” he went on. “I spent eight days in there. Once they took that tube out I felt like I sucked on Darth Vader’s d***.”

After listening to his pal recall his troublesome days within the hospital, Steve-O shared that he was nervous 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 advised Bam what his very first thought was to listening to the information of his hospitalization. “What’s horrible is that my first official thought was, ‘F****** Bam higher not die dude he’s going to destroy my tour,’” he joked.

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 associates and see new skate tips 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 films. Most lately, Jackass Eternally was the newest movie to be launched by the group in 2022.

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