Bam Margera “was basically pronounced dead” final month after struggling a collection of seizures whereas hospitalised for pneumonia.
The former skilled skateboarder appeared on Thursday’s episode of “Steve-O’s Wild Ride!” podcast and defined {that a} “gnarly” case of COVID-19 spurred his well being woes, Page Six reported.
“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,” he mentioned.
“It was swollen and puffy and wouldn’t fit in my mouth and I was drinking infected blood, which gave me pneumonia as well, so when the shaman took me to the hospital I went on my fifth seizure, I couldn’t breathe without a tube down my throat.”
The former Jackass star awakened 5 days later pondering he had solely been within the hospital for a few hours — when in actuality, he had been there for eight days.
“When they took that tube out, I felt like I had sucked on Darth Vader’s d***,” he joked. “I would sip on tea and lozenges all the live-long day.”
Although Margera is now capable of joke about the entire thing, Steve-O revealed he thought his pal was going to die after seeing him on a ventilator.
However, it didn’t take him lengthy so as to add with amusing, “F***ing Bam better not die. He’s on my tour, he’s going to ruin everything!”
Thankfully, Margera didn’t keep in mind almost dying or that his coronary heart stopped and reassured the podcast host that he “didn’t have an out-of-body experience” however as an alternative “blacked out”.
The replace comes three weeks after Margera celebrated being launched from the hospital on social media.
“I’m out!” he captioned a photograph of himself alongside pal Johnny Schillereff on Instagram. “Thank you to my friends, family and you for the love, support and prayers.”
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission
