This week, legendary skateboarder and Jackass star Bam Margera gets candid about battling addiction and embracing sobriety. He opens up about the "Florida Shuffle" he endured in rehab, as well as the legal battles we've both seen and not seen reported in the news. Bam also reflects on life after skyrocketing to fame with Jackass in the early 2000s. Joining Bam for the raw conversation is his model fiancée Dannii Marie, to share her own perspective on their chance meeting in LA and travels across the country together that have brought them to this new chapter.Bam Margera: IGWatch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: Why is Bam Margera discussing his struggles with addiction?
camera and say get hurt in action poopies got bitten by a fucking shark he could have died and the movie made 150 million dollars in the box office and apparently he got like less than 40 grand you can't even buy a fucking Dotson with a used tire on with that kind of money meanwhile yeah you had her a Hyundai but you had to sign a contract on Jackass for everybody could get fucked with at any given moment except for Tremaine because he's the director no because he's a fucking pussy
So circling back to Steve, oh, I had a conversation with him the other day cause he's coming on the podcast and Jay just did his podcast and I told him that you were coming on and he said, um, that he is, I can't, I'd have to look at the text message, but so much, I think he said around the, like he's hurt, he's reached out to you and he's hurt cause he hasn't heard a response.
I won't let him respond right now so he could be mad at me, but that's okay.
Yeah.
Maybe when I get, um, to know a little bit more of the situation, um, Right now, my focus is his mental health and my relationship. Like, I've only been with this person for eight months, and it went public kind of immediately, which I can handle. But, you know, right now, they don't know him anymore right now. This person is on a whole new chapter. It's not about counting days.
It's not about how, you know, it's about he's changed. He's turned a page. And if those friendships can survive, then that's great. But right now, it's like not right now. I love Steve-O.
When the time is right, we'll talk and everything's cool. But, I mean, like... I did his tour. He asked me to go on tour to open up for his comedy show and get some money to pay some legal fee bills of the mess that I'm in. And I completed my mission. Everything was a success. I didn't drink like how he asked.
And then I find out that he puts all my money in a Phoenix Wolf trust fund when he turns 18. I'm like... I earned that money. Yeah, but we didn't want you to spend it on alcohol or drugs. It doesn't matter. I did the work. Fucking pay me. And it's not like I need your money. I have a fucking couple bank accounts. I could just go right to the store and get some.
But, like, you're not at liberty to be starting a Phoenix the Wolf trust fund and he gets it when he's 18. It's not... Fuck that.
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Chapter 2: How did Bam and Dannii Marie's relationship begin?
hell yeah because i was so lost that i didn't know what to do it's like well now we can't make a cky video if we do another jacket it won't be the same yeah and uh instead of like drinking as a celebration it was just drinking to forget right and it became a real fucking problem and i didn't even know it i would always i was always that guy to go you know 90 days and be like
all right, you know, we're going to Ruth Chris Steakhouse tonight. I could have one wine for dinner. Yeah, it might be one wine that night for dinner, but the next day I'm going to have two. The next day it's going to be two bottles and then I'm out looking for drugs. It always happens that way. And getting your phone still was over a baked dozen of tries to realize that.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
So jumping back in, do you think bam, um, you know, all the trauma that you've been through, have you had, I know you've been to all, did the Florida shuffle, but have you ever had any like trauma therapy?
Yeah. I mean, they put me through everything. I like a part of the, uh, jackass thing. I had to blow into a sober link four times a day. I had to pay for $800 of therapy twice a week. Neurofeedback, same thing. Um, yeah. And, and,
But I think you were forced.
I think if you did it like on your own, I have therapy of hearing sirens when I, cause I was on, when I was on that manhunt, it was gnarly. There was three helicopters in the sky, eight police officers circling around trying to find me through the woods. I am a professional at hopping barbed wire fences. I was scared shitless on the fourth one, but on the eighth one,
I became a pro, and then I drank the Brandywine River because I was dying of thirst. I slept in a box in a fucking house that I thought was abandoned until they pulled up, and they were so terrified. They come up to unlock the door, and they just see a pair of feet hanging out this box, and all of a sudden, I just jump out like a bat out of hell. I just go, I'm sorry, and I keep
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Chapter 3: What is the 'Florida Shuffle' and how did it affect Bam?
So how many days sober are you now?
Since August 1st.
OK, so that's that's actually a good while. Is that the longest you've been sober?
Well, minus the Florida Shuffle, because I was forced to be.
Right, on your own.
This is you on your own.
Yeah, that's amazing. Love it. What are you guys' plans to just keep this going? And what do you guys do differently now than any other time?
I've known this. All I needed all along was a structured schedule. That's fun because I had no nine to five job. I had no boss ever tell me what to do. And, you know, I need a structured bedtime schedule. I know when I'm with her, I'm in bed by 9 or 10.
Yeah, I texted her last night at like 9.30. I woke up this morning. I was like, I missed something. We were in bed. He was already asleep.
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Chapter 4: What legal battles has Bam faced recently?
I've always had cats because... Okay, gotcha. Yeah, but anytime I would have a dog...
i leave too much i travel too much so a friend would watch them and when a friend watches your dog for a month and it's a brand new puppy you come back and they're like i can't give this back i get it yeah gotcha but you know bam i think a lot of his friends will say like you know bringing up how he has been in this world for so long that he's always had people around him and
sometimes they'll say gosh I just can't believe you're letting him go hiking with the dogs I'm like letting him hike with the dogs like what do you mean letting him like number one I get a free moment to hang out and watch maybe some trash tv for a second and then you know I'm thinking and learning that people have never left let him be like alone let him be a human just be in the woods and I've they've kind of created anxiety for me which who wants that I don't want him going
You can't go work out in the woods. You know? It's like, who wants that relationship? So if Bam's going to fuck up, he's going to fuck up. He knows what he's going to lose if he fucks up.
It sounds like he's finding peace, though. Yeah. I don't feel like you've ever had peace your entire life. And I just like, I'm saying, I let him just go do his thing.
We have found such harmony, which is one thing that was like, we have such a harmonious day. Harmony is what I needed. And man, I...
Just spending time like alone with the dogs and he takes them for hikes, like things that, you know, at 40 degree weather. Pennsylvania is very cold for me. So I'm not hiking at 5 a.m. with them. I don't want to. But he goes and does that and it gives them time to bond with the dogs and it gets him, you know, they have their own little relationship, which I love.
I'm starting to think, you know what? Maybe the interventionist Really thought that I was schizophrenic because some of the stories that I tell just seems like a nut in treatment. Like I was telling somebody, yeah, so I shipped my purple Lamborghini to North Korea because Kim Jong Il likes sports cars and he wouldn't let me drive it around, but he let me park it at the airport.
And then Iggy Pop played my wedding and Billy Idol cut the roof off of the Lamborghini. He's probably like, this guy is fucking bat shit crazy. But if you look it up on YouTube, you're going to find that shit because it's for real.
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