Bam Margera, the troubled former star of “Jackass,” claims he almost didn’t make it to the brand new 12 months — saying he was “mainly … pronounced dead” last month.
Appearing on Thursday’s episode of “Steve-O’s Wild Ride!” podcast, the 43–year-old skateboarder told his former daredevil co-star, Steve-O, 48, about his most up-to-date hospitalization.
Margera explained a “gnarly” case of COVID-19 sent him to the hospital, where his “body shut down” as he had 4 seizures that every lasted 10 to twenty minutes.
“On the fourth one, I bit my tongue so hard, it was nearly falling off,” he said.
“It was swollen and puffy and wouldn’t slot in my mouth, and I used to be 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 and not using a tube down my throat.”
He remembered waking up five days later. “We tried to take the tube out, and also you weren’t respiration on your individual,” he recalled the hospital staff telling him.
“Dude, after they took that tube out, I felt like I sucked on Darth Vader’s d–k,” Margera added with amusing.
The Post reached out to a rep for Margera for comment. He previously addressed his medical scare in a Dec. 10 Instagram post, telling fans he was out of the San Diego hospital.
Margera has had a turbulent few years. He bailed on a court-appointed rehab stint for his high-profile substance abuse issues in June, sending authorities on a hunt to search out him.
After multiple escapes from rehab — and a sighting at a Sarasota, Fl., bar — Margera returned to rehab in September.
In February 2021 — days after announcing he was looking for treatment for mental health issues — Margera reported being fired from “Jackass Without end” because he tested positive for Adderall — a drug he claimed the team “knew full well” he had been taking for a decade to treat attention deficit disorder.
He filed a lawsuit in August of that 12 months, claiming he was forced to sign a “wellness agreement” during a 2019 rehab stint with a view to star within the 2022 movie.
He settled his heated wrongful termination lawsuit against Johnny Knoxville and the “Jackass” team in April 2022.
Margera filed court documents to dismiss the case and reportedly negotiated a personal settlement with producers Knoxville, Spike Jonze and Jeffrey Tremaine in addition to Paramount Pictures, MTV, Dickhouse Entertainment and Gorilla Flicks.
