Johnny Knoxville Still Loves Bam Margera, Wants Him to Get Well

Johnny Knoxville nonetheless loves Bam Margera. He solely needs for the guy Jackass alum to get higher after Margera was fired from this 12 months’s Jackass Without end for failing to abide by a contract forbidding drug use.

That is what Knoxville expressed in a latest interview, the 51-year-old entertainer displaying the world he nonetheless cares about his co-star.

Knoxville, after all, is the star and co-creator of the comedy TV collection on which Jackass Without end, the fourth film within the Jackass movie collection, relies. Over the past six months, Margera, 43, went lacking from rehab earlier than his household deliberate a disaster intervention. In an interview a number of weeks in the past, Margera mentioned he was “higher off” for having not starred in Jackass Without end.

That was after Margera reportedly requested to dismiss a lawsuit he filed in opposition to Jackass Without end and Knoxville. Within the go well with, Margera claimed he was wrongfully terminated for testing optimistic for Adderall, which he mentioned was unfair since he had a prescription for it.

Maybe that is all water beneath the bridge now. This week, Knoxville was requested if there was an opportunity for him and Margera to reconcile. In his reply, the stunt performer whose actual identify is Philip Clapp made clear he holds Margera pricey, even when they have not talked shortly.

“I have not spoken to Bam in a few 12 months and a half, give or take six months,” Knoxville informed Selection on Oct. 19. “[Jackass director] Jeff Tremaine, Steve-O and I had a face-to-face assembly with Bam and his spouse, making an attempt to determine find out how to get him assist. Then we had a Zoom as a bunch not lengthy after that, and that was the final time I talked to him.”

Knoxville continued, “It boils right down to: I really like Bam. I do know that quite a bit has occurred. I simply need him to get properly for himself and his household. I really like the man, and I would like him to get properly and keep properly.”

When requested if Margera might ever return to the Jackass world, Knoxville mentioned, “I believe that might be a dialogue. I solely need him to get higher. That is step one. He has to take that step and preserve that step, as a result of every little thing else is simply gravy. Jackass isn’t essential whenever you’re speaking about somebody’s life.”

However will there even be extra Jackass sooner or later? Knoxville leaves that unclear. “We by no means mentioned whether or not it was or wasn’t [the final film],” he added. “If we did proceed, we might lean on the youthful solid extra. … I must step again as a result of my neurologist mentioned I can not have any extra concussions.”

Margera, who first discovered fame as a skateboarder and made irreverent skate movies akin to 1999’s CKY, hit peak recognition within the early 2000s when he starred within the actuality collection Viva La Bam. Margera can be in 25 episodes of the unique Jackass TV collection; he seems within the first three Jackass movies. Margera makes a short cameo in Jackass Without end, filmed earlier than his dismissal.