Prime Highlights
- Bam Margera has closed the door permanently on any chance of going back to Jackass franchise or working on Viva La Bam.
- As per him, harm inflicted and personal evolution make the situation impossible to reverse.
Key Fact
- Margera got fired from Jackass Forever due to testing positive for Adderall and there being a legal issue involved.
- Now, he is concentrating on sobriety, skateboarding, and creative freedom.
Key Background
Bam Margera, TV reality personality and skateboarder who previously worked on Jackass and Viva La Bam to perform his life-threatening, off-limits stunts, said he would not be back on either show. The departure from Jackass was acrimonious. He was left out of the latest film, Jackass Forever, when he came up positive for Adderall, a prescription medication Margera claims he required. His ousting resulted in a court fight with Paramount and key contributors such as Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine. Although the lawsuit was resolved, Margera implies the psychological damage and fraud he endured forever crushed those relationships.
Bending the silence, Margera said nothing less than money would reunite him with the Jackass cast. He blames the team for benching him at the worst possible time in his life, referencing how they rode him through a rehab system on a “Wellness Agreement” that he never signed. Being benched was, to his mind, “the ultimate stab in the back,” and he’s not yet prepared to get back into that dynamic while it so cut him up.
As for Viva La Bam, which followed his outrageous antics with friends and family in his West Chester home, Margera sees no point in trying to revive it. Life has changed—he’s married, a father, and no longer living with his parents. Restarting the show would feel artificial and forced. “I’d have to move back in with my parents and start messing with them again. After 15 years? That would just be weird,” he remarked.
Now, Bam Margera is focusing his energy again on skateboarding, sobriety, and starting over from the hedonism of his earlier years. He recently appeared as an unexpected cameo in a re-imagined skateboarding video game and exerts creative power with one-man projects—beyond Jackass era.
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