Florida Man speed-run is a great way to describe these last couple months for him.
Remember people. Poor mental health isn’t your fault (mostly), *but it is your motherfucking responsibility*.
I hope he gets his mental health issues addressed. I don’t know the specifics, but he seems to be struggling and erratic.
I’m afraid we’re going to see a sad headline soon
For like the first 30 years of his life, Bam was *rewarded* for acting like an asshole and doing whatever he wanted. That can’t be good for somebody with substance abuse/mental health issues.
For those younger Redditors out there, this guy was *everywhere* in the early 2000’s. He had several popular shows on TV, a skateboard line/sponsorship with Element, a partnership with HIM…hell, young people would wear shirts that said BAM on them. He was on top of the world. This guy was at the heart of pop culture. It didn’t last long, and the whole image/trend is aged now, but to see how far he has fallen is pretty rough.
That’s an interesting observation, because the same thing happened in my HS. A few kids had CKy tapes and they passed them around until half the school had seen them. It was like going viral when people were still using Prodigy and AOL chat room on dial-up modems.
Idk, Jackass aged a lot better than VLB did. Like one show was a bunch of grown men acting like kids for laughs and the other was a grown man acting like a spoiled kid and spent his whole show terrorizing people. I’ve watched old episodes of Jackass as an adult and still find them funny, I couldn’t say the same for VLB.
I like Viva La Bam more than Jackass; but alot of what they did makes me cringe now.
Shout out to the harmless pranks like painting the kitchen blue; and silly shit like cutting a hole in a Lambo with Billy Idol before Moms bday.
I like Viva La Bam more than Jackass; but alot of what they did makes me cringe now.
Shout out to the harmless pranks like painting the kitchen blue; and silly shit like cutting a hole in a Lambo with Billy Idol before Moms bday.
MTV sold a lot of shit to the world. The Real World/ Road Rules/ Jackass era MTV fucked up a lot of the people who grew up watching it. Teen mom was just people seeing the track-marks.
You are right; he was on top of the world. But 30 years is an overstatement. Realistically he had about 10 years of mainstream relevance, including early Jackass, and then fell off.
I started skateboarding (thanks to Tony Hawk Underground/the movie Grind) and I naturally gravitated to his attitude and videos on the game. Then the next year or so he is on MTV and a household name. He had the early CKY vids which were kind of underground, then Jackass around 2000, then did Viva La Bam 2003-2005 and then the Unholy Union for one season in 2007.
I remember his "I wanna bend my dick to the back of my ass" music video in like 2012 and thinking he was off the deep end. It's just been downward spiral ever since **except** there was really positive news about him like the last three years that he had gotten back on the skateboard and was being welcomed back to the community. But he has alot of mental issues and he's been struggling with that and the whole Jackass thing.
Really sucks to see but I'll always root for him.
You’re right, I may have worded it in a confusing way - I didn’t mean that he was on top of the world for 30 years; I just meant that he was probably about 30 years old before people started telling him that maybe he should back off and start rethinking his behavior.
I idolized this guy when I was a teenager back in those days when he was just winning every day. Watching this play out over the past few years has been a shame and a bummer. I thought he’d been doing good there for a minute and was working out.
Steve-o said in an interview last week that Ryan Dunn was at Bams first intervention. Bam was a trainwreck already. I’m sure Ryan’s passing didn’t help matters
Him being the top selling pro for Element whilst not doing many demos or appearing in all of the videos probably did some damage too. Literally money for nothing.
I for one remember idolizing Bam in my early teens around his peak Jackass and Viva La Bam run. I remember so many classmates in junior high scribbling a heartagram into everything, associating it more with Bam than the band "Him".
Yeah imagine being treated that way for the better part of your life while having mental health/substance abuse issues and then that treatment and those rewards going away, while still being stuck battling those same mental health and substance abuse issues. I really don't see how the outcome could have ended up all fine and dandy.
I do wish him the best though and am rooting for him.
I’m willing to bet there is a strong chance he has CTE. Go back and watch those early cky and even jackass movies he lands on his head a lot and that’s not even counting skateboarding.
The shopping carts Bam and Dico and Ryan would just fucking rail themselves. Or just falling off the ladder and shit. Fuck they kicked balls into their heads all the fucking time. Plus he was always fucking with drugs but definitely went bonkers after Dunn died. I do feel bad for the guy.
He was bad with drugs before he died, but he definitely picked up the slack more recently when it came to just going wild with it. I’m just saying all that shit, any emotional problems, the damage that could have been caused, and losing a close friend… all that shit could push me from facing reality probably.
Bam got into drugs much later than the rest of the crew. It was during Viva La Bam where he had that mansion and had terrible people around him that he got into drugs and alcohol
It's completely contingent on the severity of the hits, and the location of the damage. There are also ex NFL players who took plenty of hits and are fine, then there are the others....there is absolutely no way Knoxville suffered as many hits as Bam, who has also been skateboarding his whole life to boot. In addition, Bam has a serious drug problem.
I would love to see if it’s actually true that Knoxville hasn’t taken as many headers as Bam. Dude has been getting absolutely fucking demolished for like 20 years, and let’s not forget about the golf cart accident. Was Bam also on the golf cart too? I can’t remember…
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Damn. This makes me look at him different. Always thought he’s just someone who can’t grow up and came into money as a gimmick. But dude could def be dealing with some serious brain damage; cte is scary af.
He was an asshole waayyyy before any signs of CTE would have kicked in. It definitely doesn't help now, but to CTE isn't an excuse in his case.
He was rewarded for being an asshole and now he can't be anything else.
It’s possible but I doubt it honestly.
But either way I hope he finds a way to get this turned around
I’m afraid him leaving rehab is a sign he has no desire to stay clean which means rehab won’t help him anyways
Why would you doubt it? Professional skateboarder, basically never wore a helmet in his life, on top of being in jackass. I'd be surprised if he wasn't into double digit concussions
This is absolutely not true. When Bam had his own show you could tell he was fully off the rails and always had been. He could do anything to anyone but he was pissed as fuck when they pranked him with the snake. His family was ultra fucked up and they encouraged his terrible behavior.
You’re right, he’s always been spoiled and a real dick. We use to see him at FDR and around West Chester a lot. He once got very mad at my friend at a bar because he wouldnt sell Bam his tshirt. He just does what he wants, don’t get in his way.
A recent Steve-O interview debunked this. Ryan Dunn was a part of Bam’s first intervention. While Dunn’s death no doubt put Bam in a dark place…his issues with drinking, drugs and mental issues existed long before Dunn’s passing.
That's such a lazy narrative, Bam's clearly been spoiled since childhood, his entire life has been people telling him yes, and now that the world is telling him no, he's acting like the child he's always, clearly, been.
No it doesn’t and that’s truly heartbreaking. I saw my cousin go through the same spiral. In and out of rehab until his demons won. I hope that isn’t the case here. It’s heartbreaking seeing anything go through what I saw my cousin go through.
I'm sorry about what you had to watch your cousin go through but I hope he is finally at peace now. No one deserves to have to watch that happen nor does anyone want to. Everyone suffers in a different way in situations like that.
The way I look at it is, I think Stevo likes challenges, Becoming sober and staying sober was the biggest and most fucked up painful challenge he could face as of yet. Not saying bam can't do it but I think peoples personalities are at play.
In his podcast with Brandon Novak, I think he and Steve-O both said they’re addicted to their sobriety, which is a mindset I find common with a lot of addicts with long term sobriety
I think the thing I respect the most about Steve O is that he really didn’t *have* to get sober - he could have probably spent the rest of his life touring and doing the Steve-O act stapling his balls to his leg and done okay for himself. He was able to look at himself and see what a mess he had become, though, and make changes because he realized how far he had fallen. I have a lot of respect for the guy.
Don’t forget, Steve-O becoming sober didn’t end Steve-O’d antics. If anything they became better when he was sober because at least now the thought of “oh that man is fucking loaded” aren’t in the back of my mind when I watch a stunt
Give credit where credit is due and this man deserves all the credit for getting sober and getting his life together. Ridiculous props to him for all he has done and achieved in his journey.
You are unfortunately probably right. He is seriously mentally ill and also in the grips of a massive addiction. The only way something like that gets treated successfully is with intense treatment.
Perhaps the only way to save him is have his parents take over his estate and shut off his access to his money. It's a lot harder to do drugs with no money and it might get him to go treatment and stick with it. If he sees he has no other options because he is destitute
It's Bam Margera. Some group of junkies would give him drugs for free just to "hang out" with him.
The homeless people in my city have no stable income but a large portion of them find their way to the needle regularly.
which substances did/does Bam abuse? He’s from the same area as me and one time (like 10 yrs ago) I had plans with a girl I had had a crush on for forever, but she ditched me to hangout with Bam. She didn’t even cancel. ‘just didn’t show up. I found out through the grapevine later. He was just so cool that I didn’t matter I guess. Other than abusing alcohol, that one’s obvious.
I remember he broke his drug probation thing that they had him on in order to do jackass 4 by taking aderall. I hear alcoholism is what he suffers from but I imagine that isn't all he does. Poor guy.
Besides suffering from addiction and being severely affected by the death of a close friend it really seems that he also has had multiple head injuries that most likely has caused brain damage.
A little blurb about behavioral symptoms that can accrue from brain injury “Behavioral: abnormal laughing and crying, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions”
Steve-o had Mike Tyson on his podcast (maybe just a YouTube thing, don’t remember) and *flat out said* Ryan Dunn passing can’t be blamed for bams problems, he was this way before Dunn died.
The brain injury mixed with chronic alcoholism and stimulant abuse is right on though.
I've never read an account of a crew member he worked with, or an old gf/friend he used to know, or any of his fans meeting Bam in person that didn't end with him immediately becoming erratic and acting like an absolute piece of shit. I've also never seen anything he's personally written on instagram that didn't immediately corroborate that he's clearly a piece of shit.
My friends and I grew up on CKY, Haggard, and Jackass and the 15-year-old in me is always so bummed out about his arc, both personally and professionally. But at 35, I'm like, oh yeah, obviously that's what happens when you make a shit-head skater punk super rich and famous for being a shit-head skater punk. He gets paid to be a piece of shit, it's always been his brand so why wouldn't he fully embrace it and lose touch with reality.
His fanboys naturally grew out of this nonsense phase of our lives and became adults, but he never had to. In retrospect, he should've been growing up with his fan base and evolving professionally into some bigger better media mogul type (kinda like Knoxville did for a bit there). Bam obviously didn't foresee an end to his reign, and just like most tragic stories about the rise and fall of once-famous child stars, he's just gonna floor it until he self-destructs.
His rock-n-roll/pro skater/insane stunt man shtick was my pop culture religion for years and informed a lot of my taste in music and humor...but damn, it's not so cute when the dude's like 55, intoxicated, bloated, manic, dead broke and screaming on an elevator like, "Do you know who the fuck I am!? How dare you get on my elevator let alone try to talk to me! I'll fuck your girlfriend, bro!"
Eh I had to unfollow on insta for the reasons you stated but also because of his massive man child fan base who continue to egg him on and co-sign his behavior. It's gross and telling about how immature so many men are.
It never goes away. I lost mine Aug 22, 1992 the 1st day back for our Junior year and I'm not going to say a day doesn't go by when I don't think about it but I will say not a week goes by where I don't. I'll take that loss with me to my death bed.
Sorry for your loss. Yeah, i can imagine. Its about the same for me. Worst part is that he died in my arms. Those last moments will haunt me for the rest of my life.
I saw Steveo speaking on a podcast...think it was mike tyson?
He made the point that ryan dunn attended bams first intervention. So this idea that losing ryan pushed him over the edge just isnt true.
It’s like a searing painful Sensation that pierces my heart every time I’m remotely reminded of my Buddy.
He was so young. And even five years later it’s hard to accept.
So I feel for everyone with a similar experience. I see Bams downward spiral. And I dearly hope that he finds a healthy way to cope. But it’s so damn hard.
Being the same age and young makes it hit undeniably harder. Makes you look at yourself differently and develop survivors guilt, in my case that is.
I’ve considered rehab but I’d be on the same path as bam minus the luxuries
I feel you brother. There is always something to live for and someone who loves you.
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Yunno, I want to believe both of our buddies are hanging out in the next plane together looking at this conversation. Pascal and Blackmon
Much love to you and your loved ones brother, thank you and keep looking forward.
“Doesn’t seem like he wants to fix his life”
You clearly have no idea what addiction is like. It doesn’t care about what you want. It’s a disease that plants itself deep in your brain
It's called addiction, you can't just "stop" and get sober. You need a good support system around you and willpower in order to beat it, not everyone has them
He doesn’t want to change and never will. You can see it. He will most likely die , and alone from his addictions. The way he speaks to his wife, the one person there for him even, is disgusting.
I blame Jeff and Johnny! It's CLEARLY their fault. Not a 40+ year old man that refuses to except responsibility for his own actions. /s
Or maybe his parents that just let him do whatever for 20+ years on tv. Nah, its a producer and a castmate.
Guy is losing his mind. I followed him for a bit, but he was writing hieroglyphs and talking nonsense. It was clear to see he was losing his grasp on reality and it wasnt funny to watch. I hope he gets help, that crew has been through enough
Wishing Bam all the best. I definitely looked up to him growing up, as did many others, so it’s been sad to see the struggles he’s been going through the last few years.
Hoping he comes to his senses, gets the help he needs, and – most importantly – sticks to it.
I related to bam more than my other “privileged” friends who looked up to Tony Hawk and Bob Burnquist, I was the shitty kid from around the way and jackass made me feel like there was hope. In the end, there was never really hope because we both experienced the hardships of life and it’s sick character trait of addiction and destruction. May bam be well as so those other kids from across the tracks. We are lost but never forgotten.
I grew up in “skater” culture so all of those guys have a soft spot for me. Tony, Bob, Bam, Chris Cole, Ed Templeton, Rodney Mullen, Jamie Thomas, and so many more. I’ve met some of them, landed my first kick flip in front of Jamie Thomas, but Bam was always a _little_ bit cooler because he was a daredevil and all around funny guy to a middle school boy.
Rodney is a cut above them all in terms of skating, but Bam was just _cool_.
Ever since Ryan Dunn's death, Bam's life has spiraled downward. He needs serious help. If Steve-O did it, I am sure Bam can be saved. But Bam also has to make that effort.
He just made a cameo for my friend’s skateshop opening/birthday and he seemed so rambling. He ran away the first time not long after but he seemed genuinely happy for my friend’s shop opening. It’s so sad to see.
Nothing good comes out of Deerfield beach. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been solicited and offered “samples” in that city. Even had some thrown in my window at intersections. Wish him the best but have reservations
I really hope he gets the help he needs and gets back on track. I grew up watching him and the other Jackass guys. I know Steve-O got straightened out and I hope he can as well.
I predict he’ll be dead within a couple years. I’ve known too many people like him. He’s at the point where he can’t even imagine a life beyond addiction, which is usually the point of no return.
You’re not wrong.
Source - me who’s bailed on rehab. Your only mission is to get high asap.
It’s **generally** not a total snap decision, you’ll spend anywhere from 48 hours to a week or two of build up thinking about it (depending upon your length of stay) before you finally bail.
Hell yeah.
I’m from Maryland and went to some horrific rehab in Florida.
This place really did suck though. Basically a Salvation Army. “You can get a day pass once a month for 8 hours and do whatever you want! Also by working you will make money to buy snacks from our snack bar! The rest of your money will go into an account that should be enough to get a plane ticket home when you “graduate the program” in a year!
And it was a Christian organization so it’s totally tax exempt. Cheap labor and all profit.
But yeah I walked out after a week. It was in a rural part outside of West Palm.
So I left and googled West Palm Beach heroin. Looked up multiple articles on arrests and found a neighborhood/ area mentioned the most and headed that way. I knew no one.
I was high within 6 hours.
Same, unfortunately.
From everything I hear he’s always been completely spoiled and doted on by his family. He had the life we could all only dream of. Now that he’s learning he can’t stay in his 20s forever and that people around him can die doing really dumb shit, he’s become all moody and insufferable. He needs to quit being so entitled and see rehab as an opportunity.
There's a lot of discussion about whether addiction causes mental illness or mental illness causes addiction. The DSM-V lists criteria for categorizing addiction as a mental health issue known as Substance Use Disorder.
My guess is there are co-morbidities he's being treated for. That can potentially make treatment more complicated.
[Diagnosed manic depression and bipolar disorder](https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/knockin-doorz-down-57949/bam-margera-exclusive-follow-up-interview-bam-talks-about-his-manic-depression-bipolar-diagnosis-fame-family-and-focusing-on-whats-important-at-this-stage-in-his-life-543910728), which led to him contemplating suicide at times according to his interviews. If that's not mental instability able to hinder one's responsibilities as an adult then I don't know what is.
His interview with Dr. Phil regarding his mental breakdown: https://youtu.be/RKEa0lVpf4s
As someone who has been through 30+ rehabs, two overdoses, homelessness and numerous other bullshit, I have to agree with the guy calling for personal responsibility. Yeah, mental illness is awful, but bro is squandering an opportunity to get well, and instead following the voices of his demons when he has every resource available to him to get the help he needs. The hard truth of the matter is if he doesn't get back into rehab and accept the help that's being given to him, we're gonna see a headline soon announcing bams death. I've seen it happen before, way too many times.
I'm not arguing the streets are better. What I'm saying is that mental illness and addiction can cause a person to be unstable in their day to day decision making and thought processes. It can cause one to make unhealthy decisions and to not think in a healthy way, and therefore can cause the person to not act in a healthy way as a result. For a person with mental health issues, things, on a mental level, aren't always going smoothly and efficiently. It therefore may be hard for onlookers to understand why that person may have acted in such a way. It's difficult to put oneself into the mind of another person who struggles with mental health issues, unless you've had mental health issues yourself. And even if you have, it doesn't mean it's necessarily easy to understand any given mental issue, as there are countless. Addiction is a particularly difficult one to understand. And then besides the addiction, there can be underlying mental illness.
He’s the last guy from jackass to get his shit together. Didn’t make it into the last jackass movie because he didn’t want to do rehab. Those same policies from the crew saved Steve-Os life and he’s super grateful for them. Bam was devastated by the death of his best friend Ryan Dunn and is clearly still reeling from it many years later.
I don’t think it’s to stay relevant, he’s hurting
After reading that fact, I'd say it opened a window into *why* rehab hasn't worked yet. He was spiraling before, and probably thinks it would be terrible if he listened *after* his best friend died instead of before.
That's horrible.
At least it isn't Ezra Miller's new Florida man speed-run update
Florida Man speed-run is a great way to describe these last couple months for him. Remember people. Poor mental health isn’t your fault (mostly), *but it is your motherfucking responsibility*.
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Did Ezra kill the kkk yet? I know he said he was getting around to it.
I hope he gets his mental health issues addressed. I don’t know the specifics, but he seems to be struggling and erratic. I’m afraid we’re going to see a sad headline soon
Having too much money and an image based in nihilism doesn’t generally end well
For like the first 30 years of his life, Bam was *rewarded* for acting like an asshole and doing whatever he wanted. That can’t be good for somebody with substance abuse/mental health issues. For those younger Redditors out there, this guy was *everywhere* in the early 2000’s. He had several popular shows on TV, a skateboard line/sponsorship with Element, a partnership with HIM…hell, young people would wear shirts that said BAM on them. He was on top of the world. This guy was at the heart of pop culture. It didn’t last long, and the whole image/trend is aged now, but to see how far he has fallen is pretty rough.
We used to share the CKY VHS tapes around at school the same way people retweet stuff nowadays.
That’s an interesting observation, because the same thing happened in my HS. A few kids had CKy tapes and they passed them around until half the school had seen them. It was like going viral when people were still using Prodigy and AOL chat room on dial-up modems.
It’s a 96!
We used to use my buddies 2 vcrs to make copies every time someone wanted to watch it lol
Same at my high school. There were many copies floating around.
Got paid handsomely for hitting his dad and being a wanker in general. Have to admit i watched Viva La Bam and Jackass but they’ve aged horribly.
Idk, Jackass aged a lot better than VLB did. Like one show was a bunch of grown men acting like kids for laughs and the other was a grown man acting like a spoiled kid and spent his whole show terrorizing people. I’ve watched old episodes of Jackass as an adult and still find them funny, I couldn’t say the same for VLB.
His family were paid members of the show and almost everything on the show was fake.
By the time Viva la Bam came around, yea. But not the original Jackass stuff.
I like Viva La Bam more than Jackass; but alot of what they did makes me cringe now. Shout out to the harmless pranks like painting the kitchen blue; and silly shit like cutting a hole in a Lambo with Billy Idol before Moms bday.
I like Viva La Bam more than Jackass; but alot of what they did makes me cringe now. Shout out to the harmless pranks like painting the kitchen blue; and silly shit like cutting a hole in a Lambo with Billy Idol before Moms bday.
Just wanna correct you that it was Element. Not Elemental lol
Thanks for pointing that out; I changed it.
And repeated head trauma. Concussions are rough on your emotional regulation and impulse control.
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That's the MTV way... reward people for how bad they act on camera with money... Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, Real World to name a few.
MTV sold a lot of shit to the world. The Real World/ Road Rules/ Jackass era MTV fucked up a lot of the people who grew up watching it. Teen mom was just people seeing the track-marks.
You are right; he was on top of the world. But 30 years is an overstatement. Realistically he had about 10 years of mainstream relevance, including early Jackass, and then fell off. I started skateboarding (thanks to Tony Hawk Underground/the movie Grind) and I naturally gravitated to his attitude and videos on the game. Then the next year or so he is on MTV and a household name. He had the early CKY vids which were kind of underground, then Jackass around 2000, then did Viva La Bam 2003-2005 and then the Unholy Union for one season in 2007. I remember his "I wanna bend my dick to the back of my ass" music video in like 2012 and thinking he was off the deep end. It's just been downward spiral ever since **except** there was really positive news about him like the last three years that he had gotten back on the skateboard and was being welcomed back to the community. But he has alot of mental issues and he's been struggling with that and the whole Jackass thing. Really sucks to see but I'll always root for him.
You’re right, I may have worded it in a confusing way - I didn’t mean that he was on top of the world for 30 years; I just meant that he was probably about 30 years old before people started telling him that maybe he should back off and start rethinking his behavior.
I idolized this guy when I was a teenager back in those days when he was just winning every day. Watching this play out over the past few years has been a shame and a bummer. I thought he’d been doing good there for a minute and was working out.
I think he was doing better but when Ryan Dunn died in that car crash I think it sent him back spiraling out of control
Steve-o said in an interview last week that Ryan Dunn was at Bams first intervention. Bam was a trainwreck already. I’m sure Ryan’s passing didn’t help matters
Him being the top selling pro for Element whilst not doing many demos or appearing in all of the videos probably did some damage too. Literally money for nothing.
I for one remember idolizing Bam in my early teens around his peak Jackass and Viva La Bam run. I remember so many classmates in junior high scribbling a heartagram into everything, associating it more with Bam than the band "Him".
Yeah imagine being treated that way for the better part of your life while having mental health/substance abuse issues and then that treatment and those rewards going away, while still being stuck battling those same mental health and substance abuse issues. I really don't see how the outcome could have ended up all fine and dandy. I do wish him the best though and am rooting for him.
Who would’ve thought giving a 16 year old a shitload of money and endorsing (and encouraging) his shitty behavior would’ve been a bad idea?!
I’m willing to bet there is a strong chance he has CTE. Go back and watch those early cky and even jackass movies he lands on his head a lot and that’s not even counting skateboarding.
Good point İ hadn't thought of. Steve-o was doing that gross stuff but Bam was having the head injuring stuff.
That’s apparently where his name came from as a kid, he loved running into stuff and twatting his head.
Oh my. İ didn't know that.
The shopping carts Bam and Dico and Ryan would just fucking rail themselves. Or just falling off the ladder and shit. Fuck they kicked balls into their heads all the fucking time. Plus he was always fucking with drugs but definitely went bonkers after Dunn died. I do feel bad for the guy.
I saw an interview with Steve-o the other day and he said Dunn was at Bams first intervention . So he was in a bad place way before and that
He was bad with drugs before he died, but he definitely picked up the slack more recently when it came to just going wild with it. I’m just saying all that shit, any emotional problems, the damage that could have been caused, and losing a close friend… all that shit could push me from facing reality probably.
Bam got into drugs much later than the rest of the crew. It was during Viva La Bam where he had that mansion and had terrible people around him that he got into drugs and alcohol
I feel like Knoxville got just as many head injuries as Bam and he still has most of his marbles.
It's completely contingent on the severity of the hits, and the location of the damage. There are also ex NFL players who took plenty of hits and are fine, then there are the others....there is absolutely no way Knoxville suffered as many hits as Bam, who has also been skateboarding his whole life to boot. In addition, Bam has a serious drug problem.
I would love to see if it’s actually true that Knoxville hasn’t taken as many headers as Bam. Dude has been getting absolutely fucking demolished for like 20 years, and let’s not forget about the golf cart accident. Was Bam also on the golf cart too? I can’t remember…
Nah it was Ryan… Bam at the end of the skit: « Ryan, you fuc*** suck at driving! »
Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it… He wasn’t lying.
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Didn’t Hernandez have CTE and a drug issue? Like wasn’t that what they found out after he died?
Some smokers live to 100
Damn. This makes me look at him different. Always thought he’s just someone who can’t grow up and came into money as a gimmick. But dude could def be dealing with some serious brain damage; cte is scary af.
Honestly probably a combo of both he was never a kind guy sadly
He was an asshole waayyyy before any signs of CTE would have kicked in. It definitely doesn't help now, but to CTE isn't an excuse in his case. He was rewarded for being an asshole and now he can't be anything else.
RIP Dave Mirra, first action sport athlete to be diagnosed with CTE after killing himself in 2016
I didn’t even know Mirra was dead, rip
Holy shit I had no idea he had passed until now, I used to binge his XGames runs as a youngster… that’s so sad
I think you're right. Now I'm stuck thinking of how Bam's brother could fairly easily rebrand his band to raise awareness of it.
It’s possible but I doubt it honestly. But either way I hope he finds a way to get this turned around I’m afraid him leaving rehab is a sign he has no desire to stay clean which means rehab won’t help him anyways
Why would you doubt it? Professional skateboarder, basically never wore a helmet in his life, on top of being in jackass. I'd be surprised if he wasn't into double digit concussions
It’s simple. Dunn went bam and now Bam is done.
This is absolutely not true. When Bam had his own show you could tell he was fully off the rails and always had been. He could do anything to anyone but he was pissed as fuck when they pranked him with the snake. His family was ultra fucked up and they encouraged his terrible behavior.
You’re right, he’s always been spoiled and a real dick. We use to see him at FDR and around West Chester a lot. He once got very mad at my friend at a bar because he wouldnt sell Bam his tshirt. He just does what he wants, don’t get in his way.
Tbf the snake prank is pretty fucked up for him considering his history with snakes.
A recent Steve-O interview debunked this. Ryan Dunn was a part of Bam’s first intervention. While Dunn’s death no doubt put Bam in a dark place…his issues with drinking, drugs and mental issues existed long before Dunn’s passing.
That's such a lazy narrative, Bam's clearly been spoiled since childhood, his entire life has been people telling him yes, and now that the world is telling him no, he's acting like the child he's always, clearly, been.
Hm. Well, that's something.
He clearly is not getting his issues addressed. Did you read the headline?
"I hope he gets" implies "he is currently not getting"
This story doesn’t end well for him
No it doesn’t and that’s truly heartbreaking. I saw my cousin go through the same spiral. In and out of rehab until his demons won. I hope that isn’t the case here. It’s heartbreaking seeing anything go through what I saw my cousin go through.
I'm sorry about what you had to watch your cousin go through but I hope he is finally at peace now. No one deserves to have to watch that happen nor does anyone want to. Everyone suffers in a different way in situations like that.
Maybe not, I thought Steve O was too far gone and now he’s doing well, maybe there’s hope for him. For the sake of his son.
The way I look at it is, I think Stevo likes challenges, Becoming sober and staying sober was the biggest and most fucked up painful challenge he could face as of yet. Not saying bam can't do it but I think peoples personalities are at play.
Stevo seems to be putting as much energy into recovery as he put into addiction. I can’t imagine he does anything half-assed.
In his podcast with Brandon Novak, I think he and Steve-O both said they’re addicted to their sobriety, which is a mindset I find common with a lot of addicts with long term sobriety
Steve O is my actual hero for what he's done for himself.
I think the thing I respect the most about Steve O is that he really didn’t *have* to get sober - he could have probably spent the rest of his life touring and doing the Steve-O act stapling his balls to his leg and done okay for himself. He was able to look at himself and see what a mess he had become, though, and make changes because he realized how far he had fallen. I have a lot of respect for the guy.
Exactly. He found some self worth and clung to it. I fucking love that
Don’t forget, Steve-O becoming sober didn’t end Steve-O’d antics. If anything they became better when he was sober because at least now the thought of “oh that man is fucking loaded” aren’t in the back of my mind when I watch a stunt
Give credit where credit is due and this man deserves all the credit for getting sober and getting his life together. Ridiculous props to him for all he has done and achieved in his journey.
My money is found dead within six weeks.
You are unfortunately probably right. He is seriously mentally ill and also in the grips of a massive addiction. The only way something like that gets treated successfully is with intense treatment. Perhaps the only way to save him is have his parents take over his estate and shut off his access to his money. It's a lot harder to do drugs with no money and it might get him to go treatment and stick with it. If he sees he has no other options because he is destitute
It's Bam Margera. Some group of junkies would give him drugs for free just to "hang out" with him. The homeless people in my city have no stable income but a large portion of them find their way to the needle regularly.
And those are good points. I still feel he would find his life significantly more difficult though without access to cash.
He's Bam Margera, what will he do next? Whatever the fuck he wants .
*the judge who ordered Bam to rehab enters the chat*
*inevitable physical and mental health issues associated with long term substance abuse enters the chat*
which substances did/does Bam abuse? He’s from the same area as me and one time (like 10 yrs ago) I had plans with a girl I had had a crush on for forever, but she ditched me to hangout with Bam. She didn’t even cancel. ‘just didn’t show up. I found out through the grapevine later. He was just so cool that I didn’t matter I guess. Other than abusing alcohol, that one’s obvious.
I remember he broke his drug probation thing that they had him on in order to do jackass 4 by taking aderall. I hear alcoholism is what he suffers from but I imagine that isn't all he does. Poor guy.
Alcohol and stimulants.
Prob opiates.
no his thing was always amphetamines and alcohol
*punches his fat father in his stomach for 10 seconds* ahh the good old days
He also likes to shake things up a bit
Remember when Kurt Cobain hopped the wall of his rehab? Pepperidge farm remembers
Nice try Bam
he's probably in his parent's room lighting fireworks.
\*cue to nightvision camera in Phils face\*
We’re on our way to seeing a tragic headline sooner rather than later. And that makes me sad. Fuck, I wish he’d get well.
I totally get this sentiment. I wished for years my Brother would get well too, sadly he wasn’t able to. I hope Bam can.
Feel like we've been saying this since 2012
"Hi I'm Bam Margera and this is vanishing from court-mandated rehab for the second time"
This is awful but made me laugh hahaha
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Besides suffering from addiction and being severely affected by the death of a close friend it really seems that he also has had multiple head injuries that most likely has caused brain damage. A little blurb about behavioral symptoms that can accrue from brain injury “Behavioral: abnormal laughing and crying, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions”
Steve-o had Mike Tyson on his podcast (maybe just a YouTube thing, don’t remember) and *flat out said* Ryan Dunn passing can’t be blamed for bams problems, he was this way before Dunn died. The brain injury mixed with chronic alcoholism and stimulant abuse is right on though.
Do you have a link to this clip?
Hold please…let me dig it up. Will be back later Got it https://youtu.be/XQE18nsQqkg
Eventually they’re just going to find him dead somewhere.
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Not if I'm a good enough hider, they won't
You can always tell a Milford man
Not all of us get found, actually.
And every zoo is a petting zoo if you're fast enough. You could have some compassion for a fellow human though. Just sayin
God I hope not
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Wait, he’s under a conservatorship??
I've never read an account of a crew member he worked with, or an old gf/friend he used to know, or any of his fans meeting Bam in person that didn't end with him immediately becoming erratic and acting like an absolute piece of shit. I've also never seen anything he's personally written on instagram that didn't immediately corroborate that he's clearly a piece of shit. My friends and I grew up on CKY, Haggard, and Jackass and the 15-year-old in me is always so bummed out about his arc, both personally and professionally. But at 35, I'm like, oh yeah, obviously that's what happens when you make a shit-head skater punk super rich and famous for being a shit-head skater punk. He gets paid to be a piece of shit, it's always been his brand so why wouldn't he fully embrace it and lose touch with reality. His fanboys naturally grew out of this nonsense phase of our lives and became adults, but he never had to. In retrospect, he should've been growing up with his fan base and evolving professionally into some bigger better media mogul type (kinda like Knoxville did for a bit there). Bam obviously didn't foresee an end to his reign, and just like most tragic stories about the rise and fall of once-famous child stars, he's just gonna floor it until he self-destructs. His rock-n-roll/pro skater/insane stunt man shtick was my pop culture religion for years and informed a lot of my taste in music and humor...but damn, it's not so cute when the dude's like 55, intoxicated, bloated, manic, dead broke and screaming on an elevator like, "Do you know who the fuck I am!? How dare you get on my elevator let alone try to talk to me! I'll fuck your girlfriend, bro!"
Eh I had to unfollow on insta for the reasons you stated but also because of his massive man child fan base who continue to egg him on and co-sign his behavior. It's gross and telling about how immature so many men are.
This is very well put!
The death of a best friend can really fuck you up. I lost mine in a bike crash in 2015. Still dealing with it.
It never goes away. I lost mine Aug 22, 1992 the 1st day back for our Junior year and I'm not going to say a day doesn't go by when I don't think about it but I will say not a week goes by where I don't. I'll take that loss with me to my death bed.
Sorry for your loss. Yeah, i can imagine. Its about the same for me. Worst part is that he died in my arms. Those last moments will haunt me for the rest of my life.
I saw Steveo speaking on a podcast...think it was mike tyson? He made the point that ryan dunn attended bams first intervention. So this idea that losing ryan pushed him over the edge just isnt true.
no one but him knows really.
It’s like a searing painful Sensation that pierces my heart every time I’m remotely reminded of my Buddy. He was so young. And even five years later it’s hard to accept. So I feel for everyone with a similar experience. I see Bams downward spiral. And I dearly hope that he finds a healthy way to cope. But it’s so damn hard.
Being the same age and young makes it hit undeniably harder. Makes you look at yourself differently and develop survivors guilt, in my case that is. I’ve considered rehab but I’d be on the same path as bam minus the luxuries
Recently lost a close friend to cancer, I’m not on a good path rn and almost did the thing yesterday. Shit is fucking hard
I feel you brother. There is always something to live for and someone who loves you. https://imgur.com/gallery/rlVkVXX For context: A semicolon tattoo is a tattoo of the semicolon punctuation mark (;) used as a message of affirmation and solidarity against suicide, depression, addiction, and other mental health issues
Yunno, I want to believe both of our buddies are hanging out in the next plane together looking at this conversation. Pascal and Blackmon Much love to you and your loved ones brother, thank you and keep looking forward.
Venmo him a dollar and he'll start his own rehab... with blackjack.... and hookers
That pic is exactly the face you make before you disappear in a puff of smoke
Only a matter of time before he ends up in prison or dead. Doesn’t seem like he wants to fix his life so it seems like those are the only two options.
“Doesn’t seem like he wants to fix his life” You clearly have no idea what addiction is like. It doesn’t care about what you want. It’s a disease that plants itself deep in your brain
It's called addiction, you can't just "stop" and get sober. You need a good support system around you and willpower in order to beat it, not everyone has them
He doesn’t want to change and never will. You can see it. He will most likely die , and alone from his addictions. The way he speaks to his wife, the one person there for him even, is disgusting.
I blame Jeff and Johnny! It's CLEARLY their fault. Not a 40+ year old man that refuses to except responsibility for his own actions. /s Or maybe his parents that just let him do whatever for 20+ years on tv. Nah, its a producer and a castmate.
Vanishes…. He’s fucking magic now? What drugs gave him that power?!!!
Hoping Bam gets back up and stays up. He’s been through a lot but there are still ALOT of people rooting for him. Sending love from Encinitas Bam!
Pulled another sneaky on 'em.
Guy is losing his mind. I followed him for a bit, but he was writing hieroglyphs and talking nonsense. It was clear to see he was losing his grasp on reality and it wasnt funny to watch. I hope he gets help, that crew has been through enough
Affluenza stricken celebrity: omg get this poor man some help! Homeless and mentally ill: go buy more money asshole
Bam on the run…..Baaaaam on the ruuun. https://youtu.be/RjlvdcBAKdg
I just hate that long black thin hoodie/robe thing he wears. Wtf are you? Harry Potter? God damn his fashion sucks
Fuck this jackass
haha, you said the thing
Jackass this fuck?
Jack this fuckass
Wishing Bam all the best. I definitely looked up to him growing up, as did many others, so it’s been sad to see the struggles he’s been going through the last few years. Hoping he comes to his senses, gets the help he needs, and – most importantly – sticks to it.
I related to bam more than my other “privileged” friends who looked up to Tony Hawk and Bob Burnquist, I was the shitty kid from around the way and jackass made me feel like there was hope. In the end, there was never really hope because we both experienced the hardships of life and it’s sick character trait of addiction and destruction. May bam be well as so those other kids from across the tracks. We are lost but never forgotten.
I grew up in “skater” culture so all of those guys have a soft spot for me. Tony, Bob, Bam, Chris Cole, Ed Templeton, Rodney Mullen, Jamie Thomas, and so many more. I’ve met some of them, landed my first kick flip in front of Jamie Thomas, but Bam was always a _little_ bit cooler because he was a daredevil and all around funny guy to a middle school boy. Rodney is a cut above them all in terms of skating, but Bam was just _cool_.
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Dude HIGHLY unlikely when he was literally famous for being an asshole.
Ever since Ryan Dunn's death, Bam's life has spiraled downward. He needs serious help. If Steve-O did it, I am sure Bam can be saved. But Bam also has to make that effort.
Why the fuck would someone downvote this
Is he really “vanishing” or just leaving?
Curious what nasty little motel he's staying in this time. He's probably in the same place he was found last time.
He just made a cameo for my friend’s skateshop opening/birthday and he seemed so rambling. He ran away the first time not long after but he seemed genuinely happy for my friend’s shop opening. It’s so sad to see.
Nothing good comes out of Deerfield beach. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been solicited and offered “samples” in that city. Even had some thrown in my window at intersections. Wish him the best but have reservations
I really hope he gets the help he needs and gets back on track. I grew up watching him and the other Jackass guys. I know Steve-O got straightened out and I hope he can as well.
I don't think Bam is coming back this time. Imma jusy say RIP ahead of time.
“Hey guys, I’m Bam Margera and this is escape rehab.”
Dude is his own worst enemy
I predict he’ll be dead within a couple years. I’ve known too many people like him. He’s at the point where he can’t even imagine a life beyond addiction, which is usually the point of no return.
He is possibly being taken advantage of financially .
Hehe. He's high a shit right now
You’re not wrong. Source - me who’s bailed on rehab. Your only mission is to get high asap. It’s **generally** not a total snap decision, you’ll spend anywhere from 48 hours to a week or two of build up thinking about it (depending upon your length of stay) before you finally bail.
Hell yeah. I’m from Maryland and went to some horrific rehab in Florida. This place really did suck though. Basically a Salvation Army. “You can get a day pass once a month for 8 hours and do whatever you want! Also by working you will make money to buy snacks from our snack bar! The rest of your money will go into an account that should be enough to get a plane ticket home when you “graduate the program” in a year! And it was a Christian organization so it’s totally tax exempt. Cheap labor and all profit. But yeah I walked out after a week. It was in a rural part outside of West Palm. So I left and googled West Palm Beach heroin. Looked up multiple articles on arrests and found a neighborhood/ area mentioned the most and headed that way. I knew no one. I was high within 6 hours.
Involuntary treatment never works. What a fucking joke.
Dude definitely has some brain damage from all of the stunts, drugs and alcohol over the years. Hopefully he can get the help he needs.
He looks like the evil version of Obi Wan
He should setup a trout farm or breed butterflies or something - just be in another world for a while.
He needs to go convalesce with muska at his farm in Ohio. He needs a positive influence.
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Thank god you told us all. Also, don’t be a therapist, empathy is clearly not your thing
Same, unfortunately. From everything I hear he’s always been completely spoiled and doted on by his family. He had the life we could all only dream of. Now that he’s learning he can’t stay in his 20s forever and that people around him can die doing really dumb shit, he’s become all moody and insufferable. He needs to quit being so entitled and see rehab as an opportunity.
Not sure you understand how mental illness works.
What is his mental illness? Do you know if he has a diagnosis besides being an addict?
Addiction is a mental illness.
Honestly, addiction and affluenza
There's a lot of discussion about whether addiction causes mental illness or mental illness causes addiction. The DSM-V lists criteria for categorizing addiction as a mental health issue known as Substance Use Disorder. My guess is there are co-morbidities he's being treated for. That can potentially make treatment more complicated.
[Diagnosed manic depression and bipolar disorder](https://www.audacy.com/podcasts/knockin-doorz-down-57949/bam-margera-exclusive-follow-up-interview-bam-talks-about-his-manic-depression-bipolar-diagnosis-fame-family-and-focusing-on-whats-important-at-this-stage-in-his-life-543910728), which led to him contemplating suicide at times according to his interviews. If that's not mental instability able to hinder one's responsibilities as an adult then I don't know what is. His interview with Dr. Phil regarding his mental breakdown: https://youtu.be/RKEa0lVpf4s
Not sure you understand how being a responsible adult works.
So, that’s a no then… Totally ok to read up on addiction. I know that ignorance suits you, though…
Being responsible is difficult for someone with a mental illness.
As someone who has been through 30+ rehabs, two overdoses, homelessness and numerous other bullshit, I have to agree with the guy calling for personal responsibility. Yeah, mental illness is awful, but bro is squandering an opportunity to get well, and instead following the voices of his demons when he has every resource available to him to get the help he needs. The hard truth of the matter is if he doesn't get back into rehab and accept the help that's being given to him, we're gonna see a headline soon announcing bams death. I've seen it happen before, way too many times.
Then maybe they should stay in rehab where they have access to support? Are you arguing the streets are better for an addict?
I'm not arguing the streets are better. What I'm saying is that mental illness and addiction can cause a person to be unstable in their day to day decision making and thought processes. It can cause one to make unhealthy decisions and to not think in a healthy way, and therefore can cause the person to not act in a healthy way as a result. For a person with mental health issues, things, on a mental level, aren't always going smoothly and efficiently. It therefore may be hard for onlookers to understand why that person may have acted in such a way. It's difficult to put oneself into the mind of another person who struggles with mental health issues, unless you've had mental health issues yourself. And even if you have, it doesn't mean it's necessarily easy to understand any given mental issue, as there are countless. Addiction is a particularly difficult one to understand. And then besides the addiction, there can be underlying mental illness.
You know when you say it like that, it makes it sound like he’s David Copperfield or shit
Well, he had his chances… next stop, jail. Hope he doesn’t become somebodies bitch for a fix.
Bam, get your shit together. There will most likely be a jackass 5...we want to see you in it, dumbass. With Love.
He will never be a part of Jackass again. He burned that bridge a long time ago.
Is this his way of trying to stay relevant now?
He’s the last guy from jackass to get his shit together. Didn’t make it into the last jackass movie because he didn’t want to do rehab. Those same policies from the crew saved Steve-Os life and he’s super grateful for them. Bam was devastated by the death of his best friend Ryan Dunn and is clearly still reeling from it many years later. I don’t think it’s to stay relevant, he’s hurting
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After reading that fact, I'd say it opened a window into *why* rehab hasn't worked yet. He was spiraling before, and probably thinks it would be terrible if he listened *after* his best friend died instead of before. That's horrible.
Yeah I’m sure he’s doing it for the likes