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EXCLUSIVE: Bam Margera: Steve-O Is in "High Spirits"
Friday March 28, 2008

Bam Margera and Steve-O
Bam Margera and Steve-O fool around at the pre-opening party for club Tenjune on August 29, 2006 in New York City.
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Before Steve-O was hospitalized earlier this month, his Jackass co-star Bam Margera had begun a countdown: When will he die?

"I was like, 'I give him a month, and he'll be dead, guaranteed,'" Margera told Usmagazine.com at Element Eden Presents "Live Learn Grow" in L.A. on Thursday. "He was out of his mind.

"He was doing every G-----n drug you can possibly do as soon as he'd wake up," he added. (The National Enquirer published new photos of Steve-O snorting what appears to be cocaine off a woman's leg.)

Margera said Steve-O's avid drug use "was funny at first," but then "it just got to a point where it was sad."

He said Johnny Knoxville "had to sit him down" and force him to seek help.

Steve-O, 33, was involuntarily hospitalized in the psych ward of L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on March 13, around the time he was charged with felony possession of cocaine. He checked into rehab on March 16.

"He's actually in high spirits from what I hear," Margera told Us. "He's happy in there and is making jokes about himself like, 'I officially made it to the loony bin!' He's a character.

"He’s doing really good, which everybody is real glad about," Margera said. "He was really bonkers."

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