{"id":178260,"date":"2023-01-05T23:29:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bam-margera-i-was-pronounced-dead-after-five-seizures-pneumonia\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T23:29:54","slug":"bam-margera-i-was-pronounced-dead-after-five-seizures-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/bam-margera-i-was-pronounced-dead-after-five-seizures-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Margera: I Was Pronounced Dead After Five Seizures, Pneumonia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tBam Margera reunited with his former \u201cJackass\u201d collaborator Steve-O on the most recent episode of the latter’s \u201cWild Ride\u201d podcast and opened up about his December 2022 hospitalization. News broke Dec. 9 that Margera had been put on a ventilator and was unable to breathe on his own after contracting pneumonia. Margera revealed to Steve-O that his pneumonia was only one factor behind his hospitalization, as he also had five different seizures.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cBasically, I was pronounced dead on Dec. 8,\u201d Margera said. \u201cI did not know that I had gnarly COVID and my body was shutting down. I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes. On the fourth one I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly fallen off. It got so swollen and puffy it wouldn’t fit in my mouth. I was drinking the infected blood which gave me pneumonia as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tMargera continued, \u201cI went to the hospital and had my fifth seizure and then couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat. I woke up five days later thinking I was there for just a couple hours. I spent eight days in there. When they took that tube out I felt like I sucked on Darth Vader’s dick.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tSteve-O recalled reading the news about Margera being put on a ventilator and thinking the \u201cJackass\u201d star would lose his life. Margera and Steve-O both got their start in Hollywood on the MTV prank-stunt series, but Margera was not involved in last year’s feature film \u201cJackass Forever\u201d because he broke a clause in his contract that required him to stay sober during production. <\/p>\n

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\tMargera filed a lawsuit last August against Paramount and \u201cJackass\u201d ringleader Johnny Knoxville over the firing, claiming the creators coerced him into signing the \u201cwellness agreement\u201d for the movie while he was still in rehab. The suit alleged that Margera was fired after testing positive for Adderall, even though he had an Adderall prescription for 10 years. The argument was eventually settled.<\/p>\n

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\tWatch Margera’s full interview on Steve-O’s \u201cWild Ride\u201d podcast below.<\/p>\n

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