Following his 2021 falling out with the Jackass guys, Bam Margera has no ill will toward the crew and their final onscreen outing.
Although the pro skater said that a reunion is “not going to happen,” he recently emphasized that he “doesn’t have any bad blood” against his former co-stars from the stunt franchise, and he even plans to see Jackass: Best and Last, now in theaters.
“I’ll definitely check out the movie, and I hope it’s good, but as far as a reunion, it’s not going to happen, not in 10 million years,” Margera told Rolling Stone. “I don’t have any bad blood with the cast of Jackass. It’s just the decisions that Johnny Knoxville and [Jackass director] Jeff Tremaine decided to make. I never want to see them ever again in my life. Enough is enough.”
Following his dismissal from Jackass Forever in 2022, Margera asked a judge to dismiss his wrongful termination suit against Paramount Pictures. He alleged in the lawsuit that the studio coerced him into signing a contract while he was in a rehabilitation facility, before requiring him to complete multiple daily drug tests and take a cocktail of drugs prescribed by Paramount’s medical team “that left him physically and mentally drained, depressed, and a shell of his former self.”
It’s unclear if a settlement was reached between Margera and Paramount. In addition to Knoxville, the lawsuit also named MTV, Jeffrey Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Dickhouse Entertainment and Gorilla Flicks, among others.
Margera credited his wife Dannie Marie with helping him get sober, as well as his son Phoenix Wolf, whom he shares with ex Nicole Boyd.
“Everybody’s like, because you [tormented] your dad, Phoenix is gonna do that to you, and I’m totally cool with that,” he said, referring to his infamous antics from Viva La Bam (2003-’05). “Phoenix made me fight for myself to save my own life because I need to be here for him.”
Now that he’s sober, Margera notes that “skateboarding is my therapy, my sanity, my medication,” adding that he’s “learning and inventing new tricks at the age of 46. All I want to do now is skateboard.”
After appearing on Jackass for its initial run from 2000 to 2001, Margera continued to serve as a key part of the ensemble in multiple films and TV specials that spun off from the MTV stunt show, including a brief appearance in Jackass Forever. He previously noted that archival footage of him appears in Jackass: Best and Last.
