The 43 year TV star Bam Margera has opened up about his recent illness, which saw him suffering several seizures.
Bam Margera spent days in hospital. (AFP via Getty Images)
After contracting COVID-19, Margera revealed he suffered five severe seizures and aspiration pneumonia, leading to an almost fatal result.
Opening up on his co-star Steve-O’s Wild Ride! podcast, he said: “I basically was pronounced dead on Elvis’ birthday 8th December, did not know that I had like, gnarly COVID, my body was shutting down and I went into four seizures.”
He continued, “My body was shutting down, and I went into four seizures, each one lasting 10 to 20 minutes, and on the fourth one, I bit my tongue so hard it was nearly falling off. It got so swollen and puffy, it wouldn’t fit in my mouth, and I was drinking the infected blood, which gave me pneumonia as well, so when the shaman took me to the hospital, I went into my fifth seizure, and I couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat.”
Margera, whose real name is Brandon Cole Margera, was unconscious for five days in a San Diego hospital despite feeling like he was admitted only “a couple of hours” ago. After eight days in total, Margera was released from the hospital. “When they took that tube out I felt like I sucked on Darth Vader’s dick,” he said.
I bit my tongue so hard, it was like, nearly falling off,” he added.
“It got so swollen and puffy and wouldn’t fit in my mouth and I was drinking infected blood, which gave me pneumonia as well.” The TV star spent several days in the hospital.
Bam Margera opened up to Steve-O. (AP Images for Paramount Home Entertainment)
He said that when he woke up he did not realise how long he had been there.
He said: “I woke up five days later thinking I was there for a couple hours, they’re like, ‘Dude you’ve been here for nearly a week. We tried to take the tube out, and you weren’t breathing on your own’.”
Margera was fired from the “Jackass Forever” movie for reportedly violating a contract requirement to maintain sobriety while filming. The “health pact” Margera made with the “Jackass Forever” producers while he was in rehab in 2019 before to joining production was broken when he tested positive for Adderall. Margera claimed to have been using Adderall on a prescription for ten years at the time, according to Variety.
The star filed a lawsuit against Paramount, “Jackass” co-creator Johnny Knoxville, and “Jackass Forever” director Spike Jonze disputing the termination. The suit was later settled.
