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Steve O Demise and Rise
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Steve O Demise and Rise

10 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Steve-O built his career on Jackass stunts that nearly killed him for real: swallowing goldfish, stapling his own scrotum, huffing nitrous oxide until he blacked out. This one-hour special has him narrating the collapse that followed, a spiral into drug and alcohol abuse severe enough that friends and family staged an intervention rather than watch him die. He talks through what that intervention looked like from the inside, and what changed afterward: over a year of sobriety and a comeback run on ABC's Dancing With the Stars, competing sober in front of an audience that mostly knew him as a wreck. The film sticks close to his own account, using interviews and clips from his stunt career and his rock bottom to show the distance between the two. There's no reenactment or outside investigation here, just Steve-O explaining, plainly and without much self-protection, how close he came to not making it.