Steve-O Gets Committed
E365> Weird - Sunday March 16 2008
E365 -- By now you might have heard the news that Jackass/Wild Boy star Steve-O was forcibly hospitilised by his Jacksass buddies recently. His friends finally decided to intervene, and after Steve-O refused their help, they had him committed.
In a post to jackassworld.com, Johnny Knoxville tells of how he and six buddies ((Jeff Tremaine, Big Regg, Swizz, Rick Kosick, Dimitry Elyashkevich, Cordell Mansfield and Trip Taylor), with the blessings of Steve-O's family, made their way to his apartment to confront him about his life spiraling out of control:
"We told him we wanted him to get help and when he refused we told him we were taking him to get help regardless of what he wanted. It was a helluva thing to have to do and a sad thing to do but it was the right thing to do. I lost a lot of tears when I came home from admitting Steve-O into the 5150 ward and I’m not ashamed to say I’ve lost a few tears since."
Then he introduces a note from Steve-O himself:
"I figured that, since I am an extraordinarily 'tough' individual, I could handle it, and my legacy would be comprised of only that which could be described as 'intense'. After four days in a psychiatric ward, a.k.a. 'looney bin', a.k.a. 'cuckoo’s nest', it has dawned on me that a great deal of what I produced, while on narcotics-induced 'highs', was a bunch of manic bullsh*t that made little-to-no sense and, furthermore, was devastating to those who love me the most.
"At this point, I am no longer '5150-status', which was the three-day 'hold' on me, resulting from suicidal behavior. I am now '5250-status', which means that the 'hold' has been extended to 14 days, for the exact same reasons. I’m not getting out of this 'insane asylum' any time in the immediate future, so I’m going to learn as much from the experience as possible. So far, I’ve figured out that I did a great deal of damage to my brain by abusing drugs and, now that they’ve all worn off, I’m facing the consequences. I suppose it is an ironic 'eye for an eye' situation that I am in, coping with the lowest 'lows' that I’ve ever experienced as a form of punishment for the emotional distress that I have put my loved ones through with the self-destructive behavior that led me here."
Addiction is a nasty downward spiral that can be really hard to get out of, so we wish Steve-O all the best.
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