Steve-O was left paralysed from the waist down after major Jackass stunt
Topics: Film and TV, Jackass, Steve-O, Bam Margera
Jess Hardiman
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Steve-O
Topics: Film and TV, Jackass, Steve-O, Bam Margera
Steve-O has revealed a big stunt from Jackass 4 that left him paralysed from the waist down - only momentarily, thankfully.
The fourth Jackass film was released in February last year, and saw most of the old gang back together to inflict a world of pain on themselves and one another.
Ahead of the film's release, Steve-O, 48, admitted he was initially fearful of going in for another round, after it finally dawned on him that one wrong move could end it all.
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He told GQ: "I thought going into Jackass 4, after everything we’ve been through, and everything we’ve built, all it takes is one stupid f**king accident to just erase it. Just turn it all into a negative. To be like... oh, these f**king dumb assholes. What did you f*cking expect? But we went ahead and f**king did it."
Indeed they did, though not without a bit of pain along the way thanks to stunts including 'scorpion botox' and, um, 'bee genitals'.
But one of the worst for Steve-O was one that saw him paralysed from the waist down in one of the stunts from the movie.
Oh, and it had been on purpose.
In a video on his own YouTube Channel, he said: "I might have actually talked a doctor into dressing up as a clown so that he could put a four-inch needle into my spine and inject me with a drug that would paralyze me from the waist down while I was sprinting and before all kinds of terrible s*** happened to me."
Bam Margera was originally fired from the long-awaited sequel after allegedly testing positive for Adderall, in breach of his ‘wellness agreement’.
It was later announced that he would appear in the film, but only briefly.
Earlier this week, 43-year-old Margera surrendered to police after days of being on the run.
An arrest warrant by Pennsylvania State Police was issued after he was accused of punching his brother Jess in the face.
Police said they were called to the home in response to a reported domestic disturbance shortly before 11.00am local time on Sunday (23 April).
After turning himself in, Margera said: "I just got out of the courthouse with my lawyers.
"Everything went great and the false accusations of what my brother says are not true and he will be sued for defamation as well as being evicted from castle bam sooner than later.
"The reason I lost my cool is because I read his phone saying he wants me back in California and he wants to find a way to 302 me. F*** him."