Steve-O from 'Jackass' talks about his craziest stunt but: Self-help writer

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It’s not that Steve-O needs to die. He simply doesn’t wish to develop outdated both.

Not less than, that’s what he says the primary chapter of his new e-book, “A Laborious Kick within the Nuts: What I’ve Realized from a Lifetime of Horrible Selections,” is about.

Within the chapter, aptly titled “Don’t be Afraid of Demise, Be Afraid of Getting Previous,” he admits to feeling jealous when his “Jackass” co-star Ryan Dunn died in a fiery automotive crash in 2011 at age 34, just some months after the discharge of the third installment of the “Jackass” movie franchise.

“My tackle demise was – and I say in (the e-book) and I’ve by no means stated this wherever else – that on the level when Ryan Dunn died, we had simply had a No. 1 film come out. It was barely six months (after) the (launch of a) No. 1 field workplace hit film. And I say he was younger, he seemed nice, he’d by no means been in any monetary misery, he was on high of the world,” Steve-O explains. “He’d by no means gotten to some extent the place he was in any undignified place. (He) didn’t must develop outdated, didn’t must have his physique deteriorate. He went out on high, you already know? For my part, he went out on high, and I felt like a part of me, if not all of me, felt jealous of that.”

Now 48, Steve-O has realized the worth of growing older.

He’s matured, he says. He’s been sober for 14 years, and once we spoke, he was on a 985-day meditation streak. He does 40 minutes a day.

“I've an unshakeable perception that it causes the universe to conspire in my favor,” he says.

This, from a man who acquired well-known by throwing himself into painful, life-threatening and embarrassing conditions. Just like the time he dangled himself over reside alligators sporting uncooked hen in a jock strap. Or when he put a fish hook by way of his mouth and swam in shark-infested waters within the Gulf of Mexico.

Reflecting on it now, he believes he was “mocking and taunting demise” as a result of “I used to be mad at it.”

After getting kicked out of school and experiencing homelessness early on, Steve-O says he “legitimately thought that I used to be going to fail at life.”

“I anticipated to die very younger, having failed at life. And I used to be mad on the thought of dying – like, not solely am I gonna die younger having failed, however like, everyone’s gonna die,” he says.

If he can come out the opposite aspect of his lowest moments, anybody can, he says. Therefore the e-book.

“It’s a e-book of knowledge, which I’ve gleaned from clearly a lifetime of horrible selections,” he says, laughing. “And I say a variety of unflattering stuff about myself.”

The second chapter is on intercourse, and “goes into excessive, form of graphic particulars,” he says.

“I actually element how outta management I acquired with performing out sexually,” he says. “I acquired to some extent the place I used to be approaching 40 years outdated and I used to be similar to, ‘man, the way in which I’m performing isn't the trail to being pleased.’”

He ultimately subscribed to the concept his future happiness was dependent upon studying the best way to be in a wholesome relationship.

“Discovering a life associate and stability, I actually acquired proactive about doing the work. This was my mantra. I used to be doing the work to develop into the person that the love of my life deserves,” he says, “That’s form of the knowledge of that chapter.”

He's presently relationship a prop designer from Los Angeles.

The thought at work within the e-book, he says, is to assist, but in addition poke enjoyable and the ridiculousness of him being a self-help writer.

“What makes it work is that there’s in all probability 90% unbelievably surprising true tales about my life and possibly ten % precise knowledge to be gleaned and possibly the ten % helps you,” he says. “It’s patently absurd to suppose that a self-help e-book of knowledge is coming from Steve O.”

In fact, he determined to advertise the e-book in true Steve-O vogue, he says – “taking place the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles at 50 mph on a swing set, mounted on high of a truck.”

As typical, he made it out alive.