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Fame can be addictive. Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg, diving into a pool full of elephant crap or routinely risking death by invading the private lives of sharks, lions, tigers and bears, there was little that Stephen "Steve-O" Glover wouldn't do for attention. From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts, Steve-O was constantly out to prove that nothing was out of bounds. After detours to several hospitals, Clown College and a couple of jails, he landed, quite naturally, on MTV's Jackass in 2000.
As the stunts got crazier, his life kept pace. Steve-O developed a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an obsession with his own celebrity that proved nearly as dangerous. He took to fame like it was the very thing missing from his life, but it was never enough. He filled the void with booze and drugs, and soon began treating his entire life like it was one big, supremely risky stunt. In 2008, Steve-O holed up in his West Hollywood apartment, where he drank, snorted, smoked, huffed and swallowed drugs around the clock, all the while broadcasting his downward spiral on the Internet. Finally, his Jackass comrade Johnny Knoxville and seven other friends staged an intervention and forced him into a psychiatric ward against his will, ultimately saving his life. Today he has been clean and sober for more than three years.
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| ISBN 13: | 9781401310790 |
| ISBN 10: | 1401310796 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Dimensions: | 132 x 203 mm |
| Released: | 01/03/2012 |
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