The Downward Spiral of Bam Margera (Why He Was Fired from Jack*ss..)

Warning: The following video features stunts performed either by professionals or under the supervision of professionals. Accordingly, Patrick CC and the YouTube Community Guidelines must insist that no one attempt to recreate or reenact any stunt or activity performed in this video. 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. Bam 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 next to Tony Hawk. By the age of 21, he was already a multi-millionaire stuntman 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, had complicated relationship issues with multiple individuals, and once he lost his lifelong best friend Ryan Dunn in a fiery car crash, his whole life spiraled out of control. Even in 2022, it's still looking bleak for Bam. Bam's father Phil was obsessed with home video in the '80s. He recorded everything Bam and his brother just did all around West Chester, 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 a skateboard, he found his true passion. 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 Cheap Skates 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 Brandon Novak at the skate park. Bam wanted all his friends in the neighborhood to watch his skate videos, but not all of them thought they were interesting. So he thought it was a good idea to put bloopers and goofy things that he did on camera 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. It wasn't anything crazy; they were just getting two free boards a month and some wheels, but it was enough to legitimize his skating every single day. With skateboarding, his parents just let him go to 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 East Coast. He would daydream in school and was diagnosed with ADD because he didn't pay attention. His mind was fixated on skateboarding and videos. On the first day of 10th grade, he realized school was no longer for him. He dropped out and never looked back. Bam's friend Mike Malondo 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 wanted to be immersed in the culture and, of course, make a name for himself. So any idea he had, he attacked it head-on. Any trick he wanted to land, he didn't stop until he landed it. His drive and passion were 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 Bam realized 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. In the '90s, people weren't sure where it was going. Tony Hawk was basically the only skater making money from competitions and selling merchandise, but being a professional skateboarder was not a lucrative career. It really just became a lifestyle. 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 cult 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, follow skateboarders, and document the crazy lifestyle that people were living. Back before the internet, people weren't documenting crazy stuff. Reviews 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 SH, 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 Ween 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, with way better skating, still depicted the crazy lifestyle but had better skits. Johnny Knoxville made his debut in this video, where he performed multiple crazy stunts. The magazine and now both videos ignited a fire in 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-check and make sure you 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 bodies. Kids in the neighborhood wanted to be in his videos, 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 Malondo, 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 the 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 of Bam and his friends showing up and skateboarding made it into a production. But the way Bam edited the film 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. Land Speed was the name of a skateboard wheels company, which was owned and distributed by Tom Yto. Tom Yto also owned Toy Machine, so Tom Yto did...

is in no way trying to glorify the life or lifestyle of the subject but rather document it for educational and artistic purposes Bam 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 next to Tony Hawk by the age of 21 he was already a multi-millionaire stuntman 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 relationship issues with

multiple individuals and once he lost his lifelong best friend Ryan Dunn in a fiery car crash his whole life spiraled out of control even in 2022 it's still looking Bleak for Bam Bam's 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 love the idea of filming they would play All Sports but once bam got a

skateboard 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 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 cheap skates 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 brandan Novak at the skate park bam wanted all his friends in the neighborhood to watch his skate videos but not all of them thought they were

interesting so he thought it was a good idea to put bloopers and Goofy things that he did on camera 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 it wasn't anything crazy they were just getting two free boards 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 4 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

East Coast he would daydream in school and was diagnosed with ADD because he didn't pay attention his mind was fixated on skateboarding and videos on the first day of 10th grade he realized school was no longer for him he dropped

out and never looked back Bam's friend Mike malondo 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 mid99s

he wanted to be immersed in the culture and of course make a name for himself so any idea he had 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 bam realized 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 in the '90s people weren't sure where it was going Tony Hawk was basically the only 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 runchy crass and iny face the lead editor was Jeff Tain 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 termaine worked on putting out a big brother branded video called sh 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 wean 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 performed multiple crazy stunts 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 can compete and make something of the same caliber thus CKY was born by the way double check and make sure you

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 bodies kids in the

neighborhood wanted to be in his videos but they couldn't skate so they became his stuntmen trying to impress each other to see who could do the crazier stun 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 malondo 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 the Skate World in March of 1999 20-year-old bam marer

would do the biggest thing he had ever done land speed presents CKY finally all those videos of bam and his friends sh up and skateboarding made it into a production but the way bam edited the film 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 a 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 lande speed was the name of a skateboard wheels company which was owned and distributed by Tom yto T yto also owned toy machine so Tom yto did the distribution for this movie and as many skate shops are the country it was

a huge hit bam was getting recognized at every skat 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 yto 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 V they dropped the land speed presents and actually edited out some clips that included Tom yto references then when they redistributed the film bam got a check from V for $1

million turns out they sold around 400,000 copies and Tom yto wasn't sharing any of the money with bam CK y1 and CKY 2 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 Vibe of like me and my friends

just fing around around town doing crazy stuff which is something that I'm sure a lot of kids in the 9s could relate to 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 Tain the writer and producer of The Big Brother films reached out to Bam he had been covering Johnny Knoxville Chris ponus wean and steo 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 him to Knoxville they brainstormed the early foundation for Jackass in which taine was going to pitch to his childhood

friend Spike Jones who was a well-established Hollywood director that began his career in the skateboard World they spent a few weeks putting together a pilot that 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 bam Johnny Knoxville Ryan Dunn wean Chris ponus would do anything any stunt anything that would cause serious pain nothing was off limits within 2 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 steo that the early days of Jackass stuntman would get between $200 to $500 per stunt so MTV was raking in millions and the guys

weren't 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 $1 which was

cheap at the time that's about $10 million B was driving around in brand new cars while Steve was doing stunts for 300 bucks it was also in 2000 when bam met Tony Hawk 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 he was on top of the world at age 22 at this point his father Phil Margera quit his job as an acne grocery store Baker

and became his accountant full-time managing his finances was his new career 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 and gross 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 and 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 bam and one show to steo and Chris ponus called wild boys vivaa bam was basically a show about bam and his friends doing stunts skating 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 2 he purchased Castle bam in Westchester Pennsylvania which would basically become a 14 acre adult amusement park van was given a budget of $300,000 per episode which he would keep

about 40,000 I believe the show ran for about 60 episodes so 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 5 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 3 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 brandan Novak were long-term addicts bam would constantly kick Brandon out of his house and his life for getting high and bringing drugs around dun'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 2 weeks before he realized that he was extremely bored and had no other Hobbies since his life was

just recklessness with a multi million budget so he just drank all the time I do feel like I have to mention this too money was rolling in by the bads 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 element at one point bam was selling 40,000 skateboards per month and Tony Hawk was selling about 13,000 because bam would make merch and make his

skateboards 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 heartagram merchandise was just selling he sold

sunglasses watches clothing sneakers I mean Bam could not stop making money at one point he said he had around $20 million 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 2 to 3 years and he wasn't that good anymore he was so famous that any park he went to he would be sworn by kids trying to get a photo or 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 two came out in 2006 and of course was a huge success $86 million 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 laam pranks skits [ __ ] up but with

another side where his wife and mother ate ail were planning the wedding his relationship with MTV would end during season 1 because they wanted him to get his wife pregnant so they could have a plot for season 2 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 kept living the Viva laam lifestyle except he wasn't

getting paid for it 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 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 six 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 is Santa which was basically an extended Bam's on holy 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 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 Ming haags 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 he 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 p.m. on a

Wednesday which happened to be 2 days before the jackass film it was a hilarious episode and had a ton of potential but nobody really knows why it 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 Rockstar life but in the summer of 200 11 Bam's world would get flipped upside down Jackass star Ryan Dunn has been killed dun's Porsche might have been

traveling as fast as 130 mph fellow Jackass star bam marer 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 Bam's best

friend since he was 10 years old passes away Ryan Dunn was his creative partner 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 immediately after Ryan died I guess he felt the need to talk about it like he needed to get something off of

his chest he was doing radio interviews and 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 Dunn 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 2 years of getting drunk doing Rock shows and avoiding his reality he actually managed to land

another TV show in 2014 Bam's badass game show one season six episodes all aired within one month on TBS the average viewership was less than 1 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 Bam himself wasn't doing any of the stunts which is probably what people wanted the show ran for a month and then got canceled I'm sure this didn't help Bam's confidence in wanting to do work anymore so it was

back to the basement with dun's memories in 2015 the ride Channel posted a trailer for his movie about dun 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 what actually happened was it kept the salt on Bam's wounds while making it he 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 a bam 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 6 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 while 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 going to be as good as his 20-year-old self there were some tricks he was just not going to 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 marera 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 stuper 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 2 hours early and nobody was there obviously this freak out 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 can 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 never told him no nobody ever told him

no he never grew up and truthfully he didn't want to his parents have been managing his life literally since he was born he attended another rehab in 2019 and this is where Jeff traine 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 so so 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 Aderall which was a drug that he was prescribed yet also addicted to for many years I've been on Aderall for 13 years two a day at 20 Mill Rams and and they don't want

me to take it anymore and I found myself sleeping all day well I found a 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 drug test but he knew he would 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 the 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 taine 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 one's 50% CKY members and 50% Big Brother LA members now almost nobody from CKY are on 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 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 a lot 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 steo Brenan Novak RAB that will actually help

him get better and be a positive influence but you have to want to get better he needs to accept that the Viva laam days are over it's time to grow up kick everybody out of Castle bam and 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 but 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 and he changed skateboarding forever he molded the recipe for viral stunts and videos that have dominated the internet 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 and putting his health and his family first I wish the best of luck for you bam things are

going to get better