Bam Margera Says He Was ‘Basically Pronounced Dead’ After Suffering Seizures & Blood Infection

Former Jackass star Bam Margera, 43, sat down with his erstwhile co-star Steve-O, 48, connected Jan. 5, to chat astir what he’s been up to during an occurrence of Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast. During the interview, Bam revealed the shocking quality that helium was “basically pronounced dead” connected Dec. 8, 2022, aft helium caught a “gnarly” lawsuit of COVID-19. “Basically, I was pronounced dormant connected Dec. 8,” the 43-year-old began. “I did not cognize that I had gnarly COVID and my assemblage was shutting down.”

The TV property added adjacent much details astir the health scares helium suffered last month. “I went into 4 seizures, each 1 lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the 4th one, I spot my lingua truthful hard it was astir fallen off,” Bam shared. “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.”

Bam told Steve-O that helium ended up spending a full of 8 days successful the infirmary owed to the aggravated health issues. “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,” helium went on. “I spent 8 days successful there. When they took that conduit retired I felt similar I sucked connected Darth Vader’s d***.”

After proceeding his pal callback his hard days successful the hospital, Steve-O shared that helium was disquieted Bam would lose his life. “For me, seeing Bam’s connected a f****** ventilator… meaning you can’t respire by yourself,” the podcast big began. “You’re successful the ICU, intensive attraction unit, successful captious but unchangeable condition… I’m conscionable thinking, ‘oh my deity this is it.'” Steve-O past told Bam what his precise archetypal thought was to proceeding the quality of his hospitalization. “What’s unspeakable is that my archetypal morganatic thought was, ‘F****** Bam amended not dice dude he’s going to ruin my tour,'” helium joked.

Bam Margera roseate to fame by starring successful ‘Jackass’ connected MTV. (©2011 RAMEY PHOTO)

During the episode, Bam besides revealed that helium was locked retired of his authoritative Instagram account for sometime due to the fact that helium was hacked. Steve-O recalled the information that Bam had to nonstop contented to idiosyncratic other who had clasp of the account. As a result, Bam went up and created a abstracted account. “If I can’t person entree to my Instagram past I can’t travel my friends and spot caller skate tricks oregon spot what anyone’s up to,” Bam replied. “So I conscionable started a caller 1 and deed follow, follow, travel connected everybody I utilized to beryllium following.”

Both Steve-O and Bam roseate to fame successful the aboriginal aughts erstwhile they appeared connected the deed MTV series, Jackass. Later, the duo appeared connected respective spinoffs of the show, successful summation to the Jackass movies. Most recently, Jackass Forever was the latest movie to beryllium released by the radical successful 2022.

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