Sad. I first met Steve 0 at an ASR in 1998. He had completed the Ringling Bros. Circus School. He was fairly drunk and oh yeah, he was very proud of his video that he'd created. It was filled with fire breathing and skateboarding...and a combination of the two. I sensed that Steve 0 would one day be either really big or really dead - turns out he wound up being a combination. Michael
from Jackassworld.com
Yesterday, everyone at jackassworld was trying to figure out how to treat our brother Steve-O’s latest hospitalization. Do we make light of it like we did his arrest? No, he is in the mental ward and that ain’t too funny. Do we tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Well, we will always tell you the truth about a situation, but we were unsure how much truth to give you. I know Steve-O is a public figure, but this is a very personal matter and a complicated one at that. We didn’t want to glorify the situation, nor did we want to give out any info that would be disrespectful to Steve-O or his family’s privacy. But as you can see from the email I (and about a hundred other people) received from Steve-O this morning, he has no privacy. Nor does he want any. In true Steve-O fashion he gives you the whole truth and nothing but the ugly, beautiful truth.
So the gloves are off now. Steve-O took ’em off for us. Yes, he is in the mental ward, and yes, we put him there. With the blessing of his family, me and seven of his closest friends went to his apartment, told him how much we loved him, and how we were concerned for his life. We told him we wanted him to get help and when he refused we told him we were taking him to get help regardless of what he wanted. It was a helluva thing to have to do and a sad thing to do but it was the right thing to do. I lost a lot of tears when I came home from admitting Steve-O into the 5150 ward and I’m not ashamed to say I’ve lost a few tears since. But my friend is doing better now. He is accepting treatment and recognizing that it is beneficial. This makes all of us sooooo happy here and I hope it makes you happy as well.
Below is the letter he wrote to Jen Moore from the “looney bin.” It’s pure fact and it’s pure Steve-O. He signs it, “I love you all,” and I want to say, “Steve-O, buddy, we love you too.”
Sincerely,
Your pal Johnny
You Should All Know I’m In The Looney Bin “They call it ‘code 5150,’ that means ‘psycho,’ legally, ####in’ bat-####, certifiably. I’m outta my mind, believe-you-me. How’d I get this way? How can this be? It’s gotten so bad there’s nothing left of me.” —Steve-O
Those words were written during a “low.” Before the day when Johnny Knoxville, Jeff Tremaine, Big Regg, Swizz, Rick Kosick, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Cordell Mansfield and Trip Taylor came to my home and physically forced me into the hospital where I was placed on a 5150 “hold.” I had thought of “bipolar” as a “good” thing. I rationally deduced that, with our time in this life being so limited, it was productive to stick to nothing but extremely high “highs” and extremely low “lows.”
ANYTHING but to “crash on the rocks of mediocrity.” I figured that, since I am an extraordinarily “tough” individual, I could handle it, and my legacy would be comprised of only that which could be described as “intense.” After four days in a psychiatric ward, a.k.a. “looney bin,” a.k.a. “cuckoo’s nest,” it has dawned on me that a great deal of what I produced, while on narcotics-induced “highs,” was a bunch of manic bullshit that made little-to-no sense and, furthermore, was devastating to those who love me the most.
At this point, I am no longer “5150-status,” which was the three-day “hold” on me, resulting from suicidal behavior. I am now “5250-status,” which means that the “hold” has been extended to 14 days, for the exact same reasons. I’m not getting out of this “insane asylum” any time in the immediate future, so I’m going to learn as much from the experience as possible. So far, I’ve figured out that I did a great deal of damage to my brain by abusing drugs and, now that they’ve all worn off, I’m facing the consequences. I suppose it is an ironic “eye for an eye” situation that I am in, coping with the lowest “lows” that I’ve ever experienced as a form of punishment for the emotional distress that I have put my loved ones through with the self-destructive behavior that led me here.
I already know that I will be handing these pages over to my beautiful assistant, Jen Moore, during our next visitation, and instructing her to share them with as many people as possible on the Internet (rather than try to sell a “juicy” story to the tabloid press for profit). I hope that I haven’t disappointed too many of my fans. Actually, ya know what? Anyone that is disappointed by any of these words really doesn’t matter to me. I’ve harmed myself to no end for those people (at the expense of my loved ones), and look where it got me.
Now, what do I have to add? The research I did into the immortality of the soul, the end of life in our current bodies, and the 4th dimension was by no means a bunch of bullshit. I could stand before you all and say very similar words to the ones I say in the following clip; it’s just that I happened to be under the influence of a very dangerous amount of drugs when it was filmed:
Remember, everyone, “Be real careful, don’t misbehave… That’s all you gotta know to be saved.” —me
I Love You All,
Steve-O
P.S. I’m really in the looney bin, but I think it was TJ that read my mind. Is that right, are you TJ? Maybe I’m wrong…
I rented a video at Hollywood video that was some low budget movie Steve-O starred in.
There was a section in it where he and a few budds were doing Amyle Nitrate (and probably alcohol and probably coke) but anyway they were trashing a house ( I think Steve-O's) and getting crazy but the footage was sad and made very clear where Steve was headed.
The movie was last year or maybe older.
In the footage he said several times he was sorry to his Dad.
It's obvious when you watch films of this guy he wants to make everyone happy and will do anything for approval but that it hurts him to do the stupid sh!t he does.
Hope he saved enough money to be able to quit making fun of himself on camera and start over.
truth misunderstood and the vid was a lil chunky on my screen but when i was watching i was listing the diff types of drugs he could be and prob was on haha
he along witht the rest of the jackass crew are all f@#kin bad @ss so i def hope he keeps pullin thru these things what kind of person would all of us be without seeing somone put a leech on their eye, throw up a goldfish ect. ?...............
Watch yourselves. These are the frickin' creators of Jackass. I don't trust em' any further than I could throw them. It would be in incredibly poor taste to say something about Steve-O or addiction if it weren't true, and that's what makes me suspicious.
The movie that I saw, he was so messed up it was not funny at all,
it was sad.
Snot hanging, staggering around, completely wasted.
He is clearly an alcoholic and a drug addict.
That's does not make him a bad guy, it just makes him what he is.
He needs help, as we all do sometimes.
Drugs and alcohol are fun and lots of us love 'em but they can become a serious problem.
Steve-o is at the serious problem stage.
It would be cool if he could come back to a place where he is happy and healthy.
Last I checked Steve-O was a multimillionaire celebrity with his own cable show and millions in residuals from the Jackass movies. He's like 33 yrs old. I wouldn't exactly cry a river over his life choices. You could say booze and drugs made him, and you could say they're ruining him at the same time. He'll find himself, moderate his lifestyle, and live a long batsh_t crazy life.
The only surprise here is that they aren't all in a psych ward by now.
I concur, although Knoxville always seemed to have a handle on things.
Very sad when people are forced to look in the mirror and see what they have become. I am sure he will get the help he needs, and be back for better or for worse.
Theres also a series on Youtube called PCP Saved my life, which documents him on PCP. sad
I had to do a health project on PCP this year and it was a real eye opener. That is one crazy @ss drug. There were accounts of people sawing off thier arms, ripping eyes out, and jumping off buildings because they thought they could fly. The drug would give them "super hero" strength where they could hardly feel what they were doing to themselves and to others.
I had to do a health project on PCP this year and it was a real eye opener. That is one crazy @ss drug. There were accounts of people sawing off thier arms, ripping eyes out, and jumping off buildings because they thought they could fly. The drug would give them "super hero" strength where they could hardly feel what they were doing to themselves and to others.
Once heard a story of a guy who was asking to be shot again because it felt amazing.
No idea if it's true, but it fits the profile of the drug.
A little bit sad, but compared to other things going on in this world at the moment it's kinda sick it even gets mentioned.
I also doubt he'll stay clean for long, IME people who don't make the decision themselves rarely do...
Last I checked Steve-O was a multimillionaire celebrity with his own cable show and millions in residuals from the Jackass movies. He's like 33 yrs old. I wouldn't exactly cry a river over his life choices. You could say booze and drugs made him, and you could say they're ruining him at the same time. He'll find himself, moderate his lifestyle, and live a long batsh_t crazy life.
I'm not sure how much every guy made in those films.
It's very possible that a few people made a lot and the rest did not.
Happens all the time.
Depends on the deal they cut.
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