Bam Margera? Really? What’s going on with him now?
When I first got the call that we had the opportunity to exclusively interview one of the iconic OGs from MTV’s Jackass, the legendary professional skateboard stud and star of Viva La Bam and other memorable roles, it took me a second to realize he was still alive. I mean, how could he have survived the drug addictions, the multiple lawsuits, the exhaustion of what it meant to be famous for him and his fellow jackasses in the aughts. Yet, here he was, after surviving that treacherous trek filled with landmines, willing to talk about it all.
So, yeah, resilient fearlessness is an apt launching off point to begin our chat.
Welcome to Bam Margera’s clean-and-sober era complete with a new powerhouse wife and business partner in Dannii Marie and an ambitious cannabis business that’s showing signs of becoming a genuine success. But Margera isn’t ambiguous about who gets credit for this resurgent life he’s currently experiencing.
bam fam: Skateboarding professional and MTV Jackass star Bam Margera and his wife, Dannii Marie, have redefined his relationship with cannabis to something much healthier with Bam THC—”And I’mskating again, man. Miracles can happen,” he says.
“When I first met Dannii, I was at a real low as I was dealing with all the stresses that my life was about then—suing Jackass, going through a custody battle, the up-all-night drinking—all of which culminated in me having five seizures 20 minutes apart and waking up in the hospital with a tube down my throat suffering from COVID and pneumonia,” Margera says. “Dannii just told me all I needed was structure and stability after a lifetime of never having anyone telling me what to do. Thanks to her, I now have a regular bedtime. She told me, ‘I don’t care if you’re hanging out with Iggy Pop and jacking off Bon Jovi, you’re going to bed at ten o’clock and that’s that.’ And that’s exactly what I do, and I wake up feeling very refreshed, ready to skate, walk the dogs and paint.”
The skateboarding pro at work.
The thing I keep reminding myself as I listen to Margera earnestly and engagingly prattle on about his challenges and his many accomplishments he’s faced throughout his fantastical life, is how predetermined his greatness seemed to be. And yet, he’s still only 46 years old. Even in the fifth grade, when he won some amateur skateboarding contest, Brandon Cole “Bam” Margera was being celebrated by those around him.
“At eleven, I was even signing autographs then for the local kids of Westchester, PA,” he says of that early skating accolade. “From there I was sponsored at 13, then 15, then all of a sudden Nike came calling—and I became the first skater ever sponsored by Nike. Then, Jackass happened and out of nowhere I became the most famous person in school and everyone suddenly wanted to hang out with me and girls who wouldn’t give me the time of day bef
