there’s a point in your 30s when you realize hosting BBQs and dinner parties is the new club scene and high key better without the randoms, overpriced drinks, and terrible DJs still playing Dreams and Nightmares
In 2013, a doctor looked at Bam Margera's legs and told him they were "dry-rotted rubber bands" from alcohol abuse. He said good luck ever skating again.
At his peak, Bam was pulling $300,000 a week from MTV's budget for Viva La Bam alone. Right Guard paid him $1 million for a single day of work. He wrecked Lamborghinis and bought replacements without thinking twice. Net worth touched $45 million.
Then the spiral. Ryan Dunn died in 2011. The TV projects dried up. He got fired from Jackass Forever in 2020 for failing drug and alcohol requirements. Rehab put him on 18 different medications that left him unable to cry, unable to feel anything. Net worth cratered to $1 million.
The comeback started when he quit everything and picked up a skateboard. His own words: "Skateboarding is my medication, and it's my therapy too. A trick a day keeps the doctor away."
He's now hosting Fishtank Season 5, confirmed for GRIND 2 alongside Paul Rodriguez and Ryan Sheckler, appearing as a secret character in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4, and collaborating with Slappy Trucks on a signature collection.
46 years old. Standing in a skatepark. On legs a doctor said would never work again. The CKY kid from West Chester figured out that the thing that saved him was the same thing that started everything.