Steve-O Thanks Johnny Knoxville For Throwing Him Into The Psych Ward 10 Years Ago And Saving His Life
E online - After a wild ride with drugs and alcohol, Steve-O is celebrating 10 years of sobriety with a whole lot of gratitude.
On Saturday, the 43-year-old actor and stuntman, whose real name is Stephen Glover, took to social media on Saturday to celebrate the big milestone and thank the people who helped him way back when, namely pal Johnny Knoxville.
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Jackass, what a phenomenon that was. It is absolutely incredible that show ever aired on TV. It wouldn’t be on for more than 8 seconds in today’s climate without a protest on Washington to get it pulled from the airwaves. I mean this was pre-social media, and there was still so much outrage over the show, I can’t even imagine what it’d be like now. But it was a smash hit, and props to MTV, they stuck to their guns and continued to air it, despite the backlash. Gotta give them a tip o’ my cap for doing that.
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And what a concept for a show. Take a guy and a bunch of his idiot friends, give them cameras, and air, unedited, the dumb shit they do. And the true star of the show wasn’t Johnny Knoxville, it was Steve-O. Steve-O always went one level above everyone else. When they were scared to do something, Steve-O would do it in a thong with his dick stapled to his leg. When Johnny thought a stunt might be too much, Steve-O would swallow a goldfish and light himself on fire and then do it. The guy was absolutely insane, and 10 years ago, Johnny saved his life:
Similarly, Knoxville has also spoken about staging an intervention on his pal.
“We’d all had our eye on Steve-O because he’d gotten to a really bad point in doing all kinds of crazy drugs,” Johnny told Access Hollywood in 2010. “But [when Steve-O’s] e-mails kind of hinted at [suicide]… I got 10 of our closest friends — big guys– and went to his house and said, ‘Steve-O, you know, we’re here to take you in to the rehab, or actually 5150 [medical hold],’ and he goes, ‘No dude, I ain’t going.'”
Johnny continued, “I said, ‘Steve-O, if you don’t go I’ve instructed the guys to knock you out and then we’ll take you.’ He’s like, ‘OK dude, I’ll go.'”
Back in July 2008, the prankster wrote in a blog, “I did so much cocaine, ketamine, PCP, nitrous oxide and all sorts of other drugs, that, quite simply, my brain is f–ked up. As you can probably tell by the way I’m writing this, my cognitive skills are alright, but, I frequently suffer from horrible mood swings and severe depression.”
Find you a friend that will throw you in the psych ward by any means necessary. What’s pretty funny is imagining the scene were it’s Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, and Wee Man trying to be all serious, but it worked. Steve-O cleaned up, didn’t die, and now has a smoke fiance and a cool dog. Hopefully someone is writing the screen play about his life, because he is one in a billion. Congrats to Steve-O, and just remember folks, if HE can overcome addiction, so can you.