Bam Margera hasn’t been in the media for positive things lately after admitting to slipping into alcohol addiction after the tragic passing of his best friend- Ryan Dunn.
He’s reportedly now living the sober life thanks to help from VH1’s Dr. Jenn, and his struggles are detailed in the VH1 reality show Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn.
Though TMZ said in October that he’s been living the sober life since the show wrapped, seeing him in the state which he entered is not an easy sight. Many have said that Margera may have hit rock bottom before agreeing to be on the show.
Here are 10 quotes that chronicle Bam Margera’s transition from being a fun-loving member of the Jackass crew to a person in-need of help coping with the tragedies of life.
Quotes from a young, reflective and happy Bam:
“Life’s philosophy, hm… I just say, ‘Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable”
“Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries – and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt”
“I’ve been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I’m pretty good at it.”
“The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new ‘Jackass’ movie, I know that I’m going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don’t know when it’s going to happen, but you can’t contemplate how you’re going to fall and what’s going to happen.”
“It’s definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk video game. Just going over to people’s houses and watching play me as I walk in – that’s actually happened a few times and that’s so weird. It’s like, ‘Dude, you’re playing me right now.'”
Quotes from a Bam that has seen better days:
“I never had anybody, anybody, that I cared about die — I didn’t know what the hell it was like…Then all of a sudden, my best friend dies — like, what the f–k? What do you do now?’ Well, I went on a drinking bender.”
“I just lost my best friend. I have been crying hysterically for a full day.”
“I punched out a Porsche window. Cause I don’t feel like I deserve it.”
“My mom…worries about me 98 percent of the day. Cause she never knows what kind of call she’s going to get.”
“Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I’m like 80-years-old.”
