While Glover comes across as a sweet person and depicts his descent into the depths of drug abuse with candor, he displays surprisingly little remorse about his drug use. Glover tells how he often stayed awake for days, hopped-up on an ever-changing cocktail of substances. The successful show provided Glover with the fame he craved, but also allowed him to indulge in drugs and alcohol with wild abandon. In this honest and often graphic memoir, Glover details how this hobby turned into a career when he teamed up with the produc-ers of the dangerous stunt show Jackass. He fed this need by performing dangerous skateboarding stunts that he filmed and often showed to anyone willing to watch. Raised by an alcoholic mother and a supportive but frequently absent father, Stephen "Steve-O" Glover was an imaginative boy with a serious need for attention. Hope to hear from you soon, and thank you all so much. I'm happy to keep answering your questions on there, and I encourage more of you to join in the discussion. The feedback I've gotten on Facebook and Twitter from those of you who've read this book has been fascinating, heartwarming, and hilarious. "This is the perfect book for people who hate reading."-Tommy Lee, author of Tommyland "A great book to read before you get on the roller coaster to hell, if you plan on surviving to tell about it like Steve-O did."-Nikki Sixx, author of The Heroin Diaries
What a truly unbelievable life."- Johnny Knoxville "It's mind-blowing to me how utterly far gone Steve-O was, and how he looks back on it in this book with such intelligence, humor, and searing honesty.
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Professional Idiot recounts the lunacy, the debauchery, the stunts, the drug addiction, and the path to recovery with bravado, humor, and heart.
Today he has been clean and sober for more than three years. Only an intervention and a visit to a psychiatric ward saved his life. He developed a crippling addiction to drugs and alcohol, and an obsession with his own celebrity that proved nearly as dangerous. As the stunts got crazier, his life kept pace.
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Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his leg or diving into a pool full of elephant crap, almost nothing was out of bounds. From his early days videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the Jackass movies, there was little that Stephen "Steve-O" Glover wouldn't do.
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