Following video features stunts performed either by professionals, it's down without a spam margera accordingly, patrick cc and the youtube community guidelines must insist. This is good enough to recreate or reenact any stun or activity performed in this. Why you guys are not banned? There's no shot! You guys don't know this guy. Also, this video is in no way trying to glorify the life or lifestyle of the subject, but rather document it for educational and artistic purposes.

Margera is a skateboarding and pop culture icon who shaped the childhoods of millions of kids around the world. He could be the second most famous skater next to tony hawk by the age of 20. Wait. He was already yes and professional skateboarder known all around the world before the internet.

He basically invented the formula for viral stunt, videos and pranks that are still used today, but none of this came without sacrifice. He put his family and friends through hell for money and fame. He developed multiple bad habits with you know what he had complicated relationships in there, not individuals, and once he lost it's his whole life spiraled out of control, even in 2022. It's still looking bleak for bam, mr cow.

I can't father phil was obsessed with the home video in the 80s. He recorded everything bam and his brother just did all around westchester pennsylvania, which is where they were from. He had a giant camcorder that sat on his shoulder and loved the idea of filming. They would play all sports, but once bam got to school.

Chad give me one chance. You guys, if you actually know, know this guy i've seen somebody of and two, if not, i'm, actually confused guys. Oh there's a lot of twos. I didn't expect that at all dude wait did holy jackass on the skateboard stuff.

For me, it was like all over the place holy bored. He found his true passion and his parents never made him. Do anything, no chores, no responsibilities. It was all fun all the time.

Every weekend his father would take them to skate spots and skate parks. All around pennsylvania, they would skate all day and watch what they recorded all night by the time. Bam was 10 years old. In 1989 he was known at a local skate park called cheapskates as a very talented young prodigy.

He met bucky lassic there, who was an 18 year old pro skateboarder. He also met his longtime best friend brendan novak at this skate park. Bam wanted all his friends in the neighborhood to watch his skate videos, but not all of them thought they were ranging for they thought it was a good idea to play. You can see mtv and in the video he realized.

The funny moments are what kept people interested in his skate videos, which would end up laying the foundation for basically his whole career in 1992 at age, 13 bam got sponsored by a local shop called fairman's. It wasn't anything crazy. They were just getting two free boards. A month and some wheels, but it was enough guys i had the same.

I guess i had the same thing i was supposed to buy my local sketchup. I'd get one board uh every month, one board a month and they would uh pay all my uh uh tournaments or um contest entries and travel costs, and i would go around the city in other cities a month and some wheels. But it was enough to legitimize his skating every single day with skateboarding his parents. Just let him go washington dc, philadelphia, new york city baltimore.

If there was a skate, competition or an event anywhere within four hours, bam and his friends were there. If people were filming bam did whatever he could to get a trick in the video. This is why he became so well known in the skate community. He was a badass little kid who was in every team, skate video on the easter egg in school and was dying bad story because at the time, guys uh.

My dad would like follow me everywhere, because my parents were divorced right. So uh a lot of times. You know i it was one week my dad was my mom right and then uh um. I i would like travel for for contests and skateboarding and stuff or whatever right as long as i'd be in my mom's week, and i would go to like a a competition and my dad would show up right and it would show up at the camera because He liked filming everything at the time.

I didn't really understand it right, because i didn't really get it right. It's my dad. I want to film everything - and i thought i was like embarrassed by it, but now that i'm older i'm like dude when i i love that he filmed it. I wish you feel more even right, but then i was embarrassed because uh there's all the other kids and all the parents were just watching from afar.

My dad and my dad would like come close and like film, the like the whole contest or whatever and then one day drop the show up to a contest, and i was sitting pretty bad because i was doing really bad and i was like yo dad. Man, stop stop man, stop man, stop stop filming, dude you're, embarrassing whatever, and i was like that meant and he kept filming it. I was like. Oh yeah man stop filming dude.

He was like okay, the problem and then and then he closed the camera and uh. He went home right and then he uh he never never came back and filmed again then - and i can i kind of feel bad now - not gon na feel bad diagnosed with 80d because he didn't pay attention. His mind was fixated on skateboarding and videos on the first day of 10th grade. He realized school guys when i watched the the kanye west documentary where he says: yo man, don't film man, uh cut the camera whatever right.

He said, that's what i did for the next four years. I didn't film anything right, that's exactly how um i could relate to that. It's almost the exact same thing, no longer for him. He dropped out and never looked back.

Bam's friend, mike maldondo was sponsored by a company called toy machine, which was a california-based company. Once bam dropped out. He went right to la to skate with professional skaters in the mid-90s. He attacked it head-on, any trick he wanted to land.

He didn't stop until he landed it. His drive and passion was infectious, which is what kept people around him, but he was also funny as hell doing anything, to make his friends laugh since they kept a video camera on everything they did. The skits ended up being more interesting than his skating and damn really hold up. There's a lot.

I want to see it. No tilting, not this um, there's a couple good ones in there. Is this there's some contests enough for sure. Is there none dude? I don't think there is actually i thought that they would be like the condos.

I told to stop filming because it's in there, oh man, my brother, has it somewhere, you guys, okay, oh, that was one of them guys. This is the contest that i did to get sponsored this. This is why i got sponsored when i, when i crush all these all these morons, i roll them all them paid actors. I'm not kidding real thing.

It's a real! Oh yeah, yeah, okay, okay! Oh no, then i think my school name unlucky's. Why are you now 2019? That's basically the new year yep hold on. Am i in there somewhere. They left me at home, home alone.

Dude! Oh my god hey! That's me! Oh my god, dude i'm a bee. Why? I'm dressed like a bee xqc all the kids would like uh dress up as something whatever, but i like the beat costume so much even after the event, i would show to the ski hill, and i would just i said it and i would put the bee Costume on and then everybody was back to normal with a normal closet and i was being out dude dude. I was back to the b full time dude imagine being named. This is pristine content, boys holy champ.

Look, look look dead, see, look at that! Look at that look at this look at it. That's a bee costume dude. I look unhappy scoot yeah. I was like a potato when i was a kid love.

You daddy. I look like a potato. What is that? What the dude yeah, whatever okay alan watches, see realize this, so he leaned in his videos ended up being about 50 stunts and 50 skateboarding, but there was a major cultural shift happening in la something called big brother magazine skateboarding had a big popularity boom in the 80S, but it didn't culminate to this big mainstream success right away and the night weren't sure where it was going tony hawk was basically skater. Making money from competitions and selling merchandise, but being a professional skateboarder was not a lucrative career.

It really just became a lifestyle and steve rocco founder of multiple skate brands decided this counterculture needed a publication. Big brother magazine documented, mostly skateboarding, but also anything that the mainstream, wouldn't nothing, was off limits and it quickly built a cold following because kids adopted this sort of rebellious thing that their parents hated, it was raunchy crass and in your face, the lead. Editor was jeff. Tremaine, who was in charge of finding good stories and documenting them? He would just be around california and follow around skateboarders and document the crazy lifestyle that people were living back before the internet, people weren't documenting crazy, stuff reviews.

They didn't make money off these things. They were actually just living crazy, rebellious lives because that's who they were in 1996 jeff tremaine worked on putting out a big brother branded video called, which followed the same format as a typical skate video, but featured a bit more antics than normal partying naked people and Living a reckless lifestyle, the most famous skit was we man painted all blue messing with people on the streets in la this. Video was such a huge success in local skate shops and they immediately worked on the second one, which was called number two. This video was much more organized way.

Better skating still depicted the crazy lifestyle, but had better skits johnny knoxville made his debut in this video where he played the magazine and now both videos ignited a fire and bam. He was already doing stuff like this, and now he knew there was a market for it. He knew he could compete and make something of the same caliber. Thus cky was born by the way double share, subscribed, might as well slap the like button and take a sip of water.

Stay hydrated bam had been making videos since he was a child. So his vision for what he wanted to create was easy. He just needed more money, but they couldn't skate so they became his stuntmen trying to impress each other to see. Who could do the crazier stunt constantly pushing the limits of what their minds could imagine and torment.

Their bodies could handle one of the most notable being ryan dunn, who would become arguably the whole reason. Bam's life fell apart. They spent every day together, coming up with crazy ideas that would get laughs out of people when bam turned 18. In 1997, he became teammates with mike maldondo, getting his first professional sponsorship with toy machine shortly.

After came a thrasher cover, an official part in their video, and he was certified in skate world in march of 1999 20 year old bam. Margera would do the biggest thing he had ever done. Land speed presents cky. Finally, all those videos.

At the time everybody had his skateboards. What was the the elements? Elements whatever to a production everybody had was actually so forward thinking because they cut out all the fluff. It was just crazy moment after crazy moment. It was basically like a fails, compilation or people doing stupid things.

Compilation way before youtube ever existed. Cky was the name of his brother's band. The video served multiple purposes, it was to promote the music and it featured a ton of music from his brother's band. It was to show these crazy stunts from his friends and, of course, gnarly skate clips to show off bam.

Skating lan speed was the name of a skateboard wheels company which was owned and distributed by tom yetto tom yeto, also owned toy machine, so tom yetto did the display before this movie and as many skate shops around the country, it was a huge hit. Bam was getting recognized at every skate park. He went to and started to become a bit of a celebrity. It made him realize that he never actually looked into the financial aspects of the film, because bam wasn't making that much money from it, but he was being recognized all over.

The country turns out todd. Swank owner of tom yeto was ripping off bam badly to what degree we don't know, but we do know that bam left toy machine because of this got a new distribution company to release the film which was called vas. They dropped the land, speed, presents and actually edited out some clips that included tom yeto references. Then, when they redistributed, the film bam got a check from vas, for one million dollars turns out, they sold around four hundred thousand copies and tom yetto wasn't sharing any of the money with bam, cky1 and cky2, which was released in 2000.

One year later became cult classics in every high school in america. There was nothing like this that existed anywhere sure the big brother movies were pretty rad, but cky had way more chaos, way better pranks and way better entertainment. I think they were more popular because it gave off this bible of, like me and my friends just around around town, doing crazy stuff, which is something that i'm sure a lot of kids in the 90s. I feel like we all tried that chat, jumping with an umbrella did it.

Oh, we said that all the time doing crazy with the umbrella, which is something that i'm sure that's a classic yeah, whereas the big brother films felt like this. Is this crazy, la lifestyle that i'm so separated from that? I have no idea and i'll probably never experience after the monumental success of cky jeff tremaine, the writer and producer of the big brother films reached out to bam. He had been covering johnny knoxville chris pontius weimann and stevo for a little while now and he knew they would be the perfect match for the cky guys jeff invited bam out to la and introduced that knockout. As i said, you guys this kind of cringe a little bit.

Okay, we had a bunch of cameras, okay and we used to watch this and we thought we were going to be like the french canadian at jackass. So we just kept feeling our own stunts and all our skit and was it it was a brainstorm he was going to pitch to his childhood. This is exactly like what kind of influence that you don't like jones, who was a well-established hollywood director that began his says. Like don't do it at home, it would be pitched to the networks which never got released publicly, so we don't know what stunts they did.

We can imagine it was pretty rad and it turns out. Mtv ended up picking up the show they spent the summer, picking out what cky footage to use and on october 1st 2000. The first episode aired on mtv and it was a smash hit. Nothing like this had ever been on tv before johnny, knoxville, ryan, dunn, wee-man, chris pontius would do anything anything that would cause dude that one ryan done.

We man, chris pontius, would, with the baby in the back holy anything any stun anything that would cause serious pain. Nothing was off limits within two weeks. The ratings were higher than any mtv show in history that same feeling, kids around the country got from the cky. Videos was now amplified by millions all over the world.

Bam's whole life changed in the blink of an eye. He was suddenly the king of westchester. Everyone wanted to be friends with him once they saw. He was on tv.

It was reported by stevo that the early days of jackass stuntmen would get between 200 to 500 per stunt. So mtv was raking in millions, but bam was he was still making a killer amount of money from the cky videos by 2002 they released four cky movies and different box sets, which would go on to sell over a million copies. So if the dvds were 10, which was cheap at the time, that's about 10 million dollars, bam was driving around in brand new cars, while stevo was doing stunts for 300 bucks. It was also in 2000 when bam met.

Tony haw at the tampa pro skate competition. Tony invited bam to go on his national skate tour and to be in his video game. Tony hawk pro skater 3., so with bam being on jackass. The most successful mtv show cky video selling out all over becoming a wildly successful, indie, film and kids playing as him in one of the most successful video game series of 2001.

Basically, in the game, though, the skittle was kind of bad. I don't think i've ever used a bat in the game series of 2001.. Basically, he was on top of the world at age 22.. At this point, his father phil margera, quit his job grocery store bakery and became his accountant.

Full-Time. Managing his finances is like this. That he still does to this day paramount pictures decided to make a budget for the jackass movie. In light of all the tv success in october 2002 jackass the movie hit theaters, though controversial the film had a budget of about 5 million dollars and grossed 79 million worldwide.

In its first week it was safe to say this was a massive hit. We don't know what types of deals were negotiated. I believe johnny knoxville made the most since he was producer, but i think it's safe to say the money was rolling in for bam. Mtv of course needed a spin-off for jackass after it was done airing on tv.

So they offered one show to bam, called viva la bam and one show to stevo and chris pontius called wild boys. Viva la bam was basically a show about bam and his friends doing stunts eating and traveling the world. There was also an ongoing theme in the show where bam would absolutely terrorize his parents, as well as destroy their house. Luckily, in season two, he purchased castle bam in westchester pennsylvania, which would basically become a 14 acre.

Adult amusement park. Bam was given a budget of three hundred thousand dollars per episode in which he would keep about forty thousand, i believe the show ran for about sixty episodes. So it's not bad yeah millions of dollars. He built an entire indoor skate park, a full casino that was suspended up in the trees.

He would travel all around the world, buy cars to demolish them and blow them up. He did a full civil war reenactment. Absolutely anything he wanted to do. Mtv was willing to pay for it a lot of the times.

They even told him his ideas, weren't crazy enough. Mtv didn't realize how long it would take for skaters to land their tricks, so it wasn't really worth their time to sit there for hours. While someone is trying a skate trick only for them to land it, and it takes five seconds of the show, so they kind of forced him to stop skating. At this point, he stopped fulfilling his duties as a sponsored skater and his whole life became.

How can i cause absolute chaos from the moment i wake up until everyone goes to sleep for the next three years. Up until this point bam actually stayed clear of drugs and alcohol, he maintained a sober life and was motivated by just having fun with his friends and, of course, making money. Almost none of his friends were sober, though in fact his two best friends, ryan dunn and brendan novak, were long-term addicts. Bam would constantly kick brennan out of his house and his life for getting high and bringing drugs around dunn's.

Drug of choice was alcohol at about age, 25 bam started picking up the booze himself. He was infatuated with the rockstar lifestyle and his favorite band of all time. Him introduced bam to how rock stars get down, but after three years straight of chaos, every day bam needed a break. He was exhausted and in 2005 the show ended only because he just didn't want to do it anymore.

But this break lasted about two weeks before he realized that he was extremely bored and had no other hobbies, since his life was just recklessness with a multi-million dollar budget, so he just drank all the time i do feel like. I have to mention this too. Money was rolling in by the boa loads. He was in every tony hawk pro skater game, including one where he was on the cover he was in commercials selling more skateboards than tony hawk through ellen yeah.

At one point, bam was selling four holy. This one guys did it: i either you had a tech neck of this or you had a board of this student or are you playing the game dude? These were. These were like dominating skateboards per month, and tony hawk was selling about 13 000, because bam would make murder. Also, i'm gon na be honest guys.

I love tony hawk dude. I always thought that that that the hawk brand uh art or whatever it was kind of lame. It didn't appeal to a lot of people. Is it's not.

It wasn't like as visually appealing. It was just gon na it. It was just pretty much make merch be pink, which wasn't really done before. So all his female fans would just buy the board and hang it up on their wall, and once he started going really hard with branding his heartogram merchandise was just selling.

He sold. Sunglasses watches clothes. Sneakers i mean bam, could not stop making money. At one point he said he had around 20 million dollars that his father was managing.

Now that the show was over, he wanted to go back to skating the thing he loved the most, but he couldn't because he basically stopped skating for two to three years, and he wasn't that good anymore. He was so famous that any park he went to. He would be swarmed by kids trying to get a photo and an autograph and he would spend all his time entertaining them, so he couldn't skate. He had this image of a badass skateboarder, so if he showed up at a park rusty and sucking, he would look terrible in front of everyone and he let that get to his head, which resulted in him just abandoning the sport.

Luckily, jackass got picked up for another movie and filming began for that. Jackass part 2 came out in 2006 and, of course, was a huge success. 86 million dollars in the box office worldwide first week bam wanted the party back in his life, so he pitched another show called bam's unholy union, which was a show about planning his wedding with his now ex-wife missy rothstein, the show was basically viva la bam. Pranks skits and up, but with another side where his wife and mother april were planning the wedding.

His relationship with mtv would end during season one because they wanted him to get his wife pregnant. So they could have a plot for season two bam freaked out on them for wanting him to bring a literal human in the world just for financial gain, so in mid 2007 bam was 28, had no more daily chaos in his life. Well, technically, he basically, i think, there's probably more to that story, though guys i feel like it's you guys, maybe i'm wrong. I'm wrong is that this seems too one-dimensional.

There's no shots living the viva la bam, lifestyle except he wasn't getting. Maybe it is, though, random people would show up to castle bam to hang out get drunk and party, and if bam was out of town traveling for business or in europe, people would just throw parties at his house. He was very liberal with the gate code, so everyone knew it plus the county and the town and all the cops in westchester knew about his craziness after them filming the show for five sixty years at this point, so it wasn't weird to have a hundred people. Partying at his place, he filmed an indie movie called where the santa, which was basically an extended bam's, unholy union episode with pranks and all the same nonsense that he had been doing for over a decade, not sure what the success was for this film.

But it was clear that bam could not move on from the life that he had. He wanted to just keep doing another movie or another show that consisted of the same chaos and rebelliousness that ensued. Since he was 20., then in 2009 came another cky indie film called minghags, which again was just bam, trying to recreate a moment that wasn't there anymore, i mean sure his fans loved it, but i'm also sure most of y'all never knew this existed. I managed to land another tv show on spike tv called bam's world domination, a show with him and ryan dunn, which aired on spike for one episode one evening at 11, 30 pm on a wednesday which happened to be two days before the jackass film.

It was a hilarious episode and had a ton of potential, but nobody really knows why i didn't continue. Luckily for bam. Jackass was back for another film jackass 3d, so he was filming that for all of 2009, which would release in october 2010 and would be the most successful jackass. Yet 171 million global box office first week double from both the previous films living off the high of jackass.

Again bam still spent most of his days. Partying traveling with cky and living the rock star, but in the summer of 2011 bam's world would get flipped upside down. Jackass star ryan dunn has been killed. Dunn's porsche might have been traveling as fast as 130 miles per hour.

Fellow jackass star ben margera was actually in arizona when he got the call. He said shook his world informing him that his best friend he considers his brother was killed in a fiery crash damn's best friend, since he was 10 years old passes away. Brian dunn was his creative partner. He was there for everything.

Whenever bam had an idea. He discussed it with ryan. If he wanted to film a stunt. Ryan was the first guy ready to do it.

He had spent the past 15 years attached at the hip. With this man, he basically was the only true friend who stuck with him through all the ups and downs. Now he was gone. This would be the beginning of the downward spiral that bam still has not figured out.

To this day, bam did a lot of press yeah immediately. It felt like stunt of like, like a whole hole the wooden plate, and he would just punch him in the face. I guess he felt the need to talk about it. Like i love that one his chest, he was doing radio interviews and podcasts like a week after ryan passed.

He also made some public appearances in 2011, where he seemed to be okay, but these days were dark for him. He would lock himself in his basement just watching old footage of him and done getting drunk and not talking to anyone for weeks. At a time he started working on a movie which was a tribute to ryan dunn, which still never came out. He still wasn't skating and the only time he would go out of the house was to the bar or on a cky tour, where he would perform some of their songs.

He went through a divorce with his wife in 2012, which i can imagine, was a direct correlation to losing his best friend in 2013. He started to gain a lot of weight. Officially touring with his own band called face, unstoppable, which was literally just cky with him. Still partying every night and waking up in the morning to not face his demons once again, but he did get married to his current wife, nicole boyd, which i suppose was good, that he had some type of stability and after two years of getting drunk doing rock, Shows and avoiding his reality, he actually managed to land.

Another tv show, 2014., bam's, badass game show one season. Six episodes all aired within one month on tbs, the average viewership was less than one million people were pretty harsh on this show. It wasn't actually that bad, but it promised to feature contestants doing stunts similar to jackass, but ordinary people doing them, which was kind of interesting. But the stunts were just not as crazy, like even less crazy than fear factor, plus the casting was full of corny people and damn himself wasn't doing any of the stunts, which is probably what people wanted.

The show ran for a month and then got cancelled. I'm sure this didn't help bam's confidence in wanting to do work anymore, so it was back to the basement. Without that look late, 2015. The ride channel posted a trailer for his movie about done, which was called.

I needed some time to be useless. There was a lot of hype on it. I think putting out this movie might have been a good way to close the door on the past and move forward with his life. But what actually happened was it kept the salt on bam's world? I remember that scene.

Couldn't ever perfect the movie, nor finish it in a 2017 interview, he talked about how he still couldn't finish the movie, because the end of the movie needs to be bam, moving on with his life and not to repeat old patterns, but that is not his reality. Still to this day, which is why this movie still can't come out also in case you were wondering castle bam was still a never-ending episode of evil, abandon he kept drunks and addicts sleeping all over his house and partying every night just to relive the old days. The only problem was, none of these people were his actual friends. They were going nowhere in life and bam had enough money to buy them whatever they wanted.

The movie never came out and bam had made the best decision of his life sometime in 2016.. He was finally fed up with the way he was living and the way he looked. He moved to estonia with his wife left everyone. He knew back at the castle and spent six months there losing weight and getting healthy.

He then moved to barcelona, where he was going to learn how to skate again at this point, bam had barely even skated for the past 10 years. He had to relearn everything and he couldn't be drunk. He was doing this either he remained sober for about a year while relearning his first passion keep in mind at this point, he's 38, so he wasn't really training himself. There were some tricks.

He was just not gon na be able to ever do again in 2017. He moved back to the states and did a lot of press. He seemed to be in great. Spirits seemed to be sober, he was skateboarding again and it was looking like bam closed.

The book on the past his mother april had the idea of putting castle bam on airbnb, while he was in europe, so she spent the whole year getting it ready to put it on the rental market. It was a huge hit immediately and she got it. Booked for about a whole year. Straight bam didn't love the idea, but once it became successful he was okay with it.

At the end of 2017, phoenix margera was born, which was his first child. So now he was back in westchester with a new home, a new child and a fresh outlook on life. Unfortunately, this wouldn't last long. The worst thing for him was being back in westchester, the same old town, the same old friends with castle bam being right around the corner.

It was like a lingering demon just tempting bam, to go back to his old ways. In late 2018, he did throwing parties trying to recreate a moment once again. 2019 was a dark year, one where he didn't seem to recover from. He started off the year going to a rehab in which he left after just 10 days - and i didn't really mention this, but honestly for the past 10 years he had been in and out of rehabs.

He started a comedy and storytelling tour in which i assume he probably just needed some money or something to do. He was basically just in a drunken rambling stupor on stage it's kind of difficult to watch on this tour. He famously went crazy on his manager and his wife because they showed up to one of the comedy shows two hours early and nobody was there. Obviously, this freakout was unjustified and his outrage most likely came from the drugs and alcohol.

His longtime friend and heroin addict brandon novak told the story of bam, taking care of him for years, making him get sober and everything he did to stop him from doing. But now the roles are reversed, brandon is sober and getting his life together and bam is the one who can't stop. I also haven't mentioned this at all, but bam has an unhealthy relationship with instagram. He basically posts all facets of his life on there since 2012..

You can tell when bam is going through a rough time just based on what he posts on there. The comment section is constantly filled with people begging him to get help or begging him to stay sober. I could make a three hour video on just his instagram summer of 2019. He claimed he was fed up with living the way he was and the only person that could help him was dr phil, dr phil.

I need your help in a big big way. His instagram turned into a place to share his manic episodes. He did get on dr phil, but it was pretty pathetic. It was evident that he was a spoiled kid who got everything he wanted in life yeah.

He did work hard, but his parents, nobody ever told him now he never grew up and truthfully he didn't want to. His parents have been managing his life literally. He attended another rehab in 2019 and this is where jeff tremaine approached him about jackass forever. Jeff made him sign a wellness agreement, basically stating that he would remain off drugs and alcohol during the filming of the new movie, bam agreed and signed the papers.

Although he wasn't cured after rehab and dr phil, it seems like the jackass team was committed to keeping him sober and bam, probably wanted the 5 million salary from the movie, so he held it together. Apparently he had to blow into a breathalyzer three times a day and do random drug tests multiple times per week. Throughout 2020, it seemed like he was keeping it together for the most part, with the strict rules from the jackass film. I'm sure it was hard to get around them, but in the beginning of 2021 he was fired from the film bam allegedly was on a road trip and took an adderall which was a drug that he was prescribed yet also addicted to for many years.

I've been on adderall for 13 years, two a day at 20 milligrams and and they don't want me to take it anymore, and i found myself sleeping all day why? Why loose one in my car on my road trip and i took it - he had to go to an urgent care that day to fulfill jackass requirements and take a protest, but that makes no sense guys. This almost feels like a cop out or like a oh. We want him out, oh we we, we found something that that isn't a papers or whatever that he signed and that that will get him out type of thing unless he lied, we'd fail. He skipped the test and checked himself into a florida rehab instead.

But this wasn't good enough. He broke the wellness agreement, so he was fired. Bam's response was in a now deleted, rant on instagram. Who cares if i'm drunk as hell or not anymore? One of his main arguments was that jackass was always filmed while the guys were drunk and on drugs.

So why is now any different? He doesn't seem to understand that now they are all much older in their 40s and it's time to grow up. Jackass coming back means. The new gimmick is that a bunch of old guys are doing stunts, not crazy. 20 year olds, they're making the film for the money and nostalgia not to ruin their lives again, but bam has his parents still taking care of his finances and responsibilities? He always did whatever he wanted and had everyone else handle the hard stuff.

He still thinks he's a kid. He broke the wellness agreement, simple as that. Now you have to face the consequences. It's really unclear how his year was going after this.

When times are rough, he deletes all the comments from his instagram and posts. Throwback pictures - that's usually a sign that he has his phone taken away. He did file a lawsuit against paramount jeff, tremaine, johnny knoxville and many others associated with the film claiming that he was forced to sign this wellness agreement that led to psychological torture and that they fired him to steal his creative input and save money on the film Jackass was once 50 cky members and 50 big brother la members. Now almost nobody from cky are in the film after the lawsuit and the antics in the beginning of 2021, he did a little bit of skating with thrasher and even collaborated with danny duncan, but for the past six months or so his instagram has just been a Bunch of throwback photos with the comments turned off his wife recently filed for full custody of his child, but not a divorce, which i don't really know why or what that even means for their relationship.

Addiction is a vicious cycle and it may seem like i was being hard on bam, but truthfully, i feel for anyone struggling with addiction. It's something that's impacted, my life. We aren't really sure where bam is at today, maybe in a rehab, hopefully accepting that his life has changed a lot. I think quitting skateboarding due to his ego of not being the best anymore, was one of the worst things for him, because now he is too old and out of shape to do what he once could, which prevents him from staying focused.

He has tons of real friends out there, stevo brennan, novak rab. That will actually help him get better and be a positive i enjoy this. You want to get better. He needs to accept that the viva la bam days are over it's time to grow up.

Kick everybody out of the castle to be a father to your son. He could still get into producing movies or directing maybe working with aspiring, skaters or stuntmen. It could be a healthy thing to focus on as long as drugs and alcohol aren't involved. He has plenty of money.

His father did right by him managing his finances one day his father won't be. There bam will need to figure out how to manage and budget his life. I genuinely hope bam figures out his sobriety. He was a staple of many of our childhoods.

I enjoyed that. He changed. I didn't know most of this anyway. He molded the recipe for viral stunts and videos that have dominated the area for the past 20 years.

He literally created culture. I do believe he still has a lot to offer to this world, but right now he needs to focus on closing the door on the past 2016, putting his health family first. I wish the best of luck for you bam. Things are going again, interesting, actually bro.

I just need some no cap, no cap, no cap, okay, boys. What's next give me you.