Jackass star Steve-O shares grim details of his 'most painful injury ever'

The Jackass crew may make some questionable choices, but you cannot criticise their bravery. Last year, they returned for Jackass Forever which saw Johnny Knoxville face off against a bull, newcomer Rachel Wolfson take on a scorpion sting to the lip, and Steve-O use his penis as a beehive. Those are all prime examples of decisions I would class as questionable but hey, it’s entertaining.

There are, of course, risks involved in carrying out such elaborate stunts. Let’s not forget the fact that Knoxville suffered brain damage during one Jackass Forever caper. Now though, Steve-O has shared details on his ‘most painful injury ever.’ Warning: It’s not pleasant.

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Taking to YouTube, Steve-O told viewers that the injury was caused by explosives. Steve-O intended to blow up his living room in the name of creating content for his latest comedy tour. It goes without saying, do not try this at home. Steve-O hired a pyrotechnics expert who began by blowing up bananas and watermelons whilst he held onto them.

The duo then progressed onto a mug filled with rocket fuel which sounds like a recipe for disaster but Steve-O was once again fine. His luck was sure to run out though. I’ll let Steve-O explain what happened next. “We just sprinkled way too much rocket engine fuel all over the living room carpet, and I laid in it and did snow angels,” he said.

“Now candidly, what happened next was not approved by the professional fire guy,” he added. “When my buddies lit that stuff, right away, I knew I f***ed up. I knew it was bad right away, so I went to the hospital that night.” Steve-O woke up the next morning with “the most hideous f***ed up blisters” over around 15% of his body. He ended up heading out on his comedy tour but would have nurses check on the blisters.

“None of them said you should go into the hospital so I just rode it out, and each day the pain got so much worse. I was screaming to the point that we were getting noise complaints in the hotel room,” he said. Five days later, Steve-O finally went to hospital. “Doctors looked at me like ‘What the hell have you been doing for the last five days, you idiot? You need emergency surgery.’”

During the surgery, the blistered burns were removed and Steve-O had new skin grafted onto the affected areas. To be exact, he “had the flesh of exactly seven different dead people” grafted onto his body. It’s not a lesson I think anyone needed but if you were in doubt, don’t play with rocket engine fuel.