Bam Margera is suing Johnny Knoxville & producers for firing him from Jackass Forever. Knoxville has made it clear that Margera was in breach of contract because Bam did not stay sober during filming. [Dlisted]
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PS… We’ll have the Cuomo resignation story tomorrow!
Cuomo resigned.
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Thank god. Now everyone can just get on with it.
Bam is an asshole, but he’s right in the sense that addiction and mental health are protected grounds (Canadian term) and firing him for that is not ethical.
If Bams addiction was active and impacting his ability to perform then he should have been placed on medical leave, not shamed and punished for failing to respond to medical condition.
This isn’t in any way similar to Spears. Bam really seems to suck as a person right now. Knoxville had much better avenues to pursue that would not have opened him up to a discrimination lawsuit and would have supported his employee. Mandatory therapy and addictions counselling attendance for example rather than drug testing. Medical
Leave. Full payment and confidentiality.
Instead Knoxville used it as a promotional tool
Is that still true if he signed an agreement with a wellness clause directly related to his alcohol and drug use though?
Eh. People not staying sober in a film where they are doing stunts is probably a huge insurance liability. Maybe not “ethical” but contracts don’t have to be ethical.
This! It’s a massive liability.
Also, Knoxville offered Bam treatment and they would film his scenes later (medical leave), but Bam refused. I’m sure this was all laid out perfectly in the contract.
The argument this is discrimination based on a mental illness falls flat when there’s good faith attempts made to work around the issue and a signed contract.
Lohan also took this path with at least 1 acting job she had. There was no win for her because she could not function as an actor and held up production along with other issues.
Yes I’m from stuff I’ve read that’s pretty much what happened, he unfortunately did become a huge liability and did something, that broke the wellness contract. But apparently they were also trying to get him into rehab post firing. Unfortunately, if Bam can’t get sober and fully stay sober, it probably won’t end well.
In the US if you fail a drug test you get fired. If you are caught drinking on the job you are fired. There’s no addiction protection. Knoxville hired an addict and put a clause in his contract that he had to be sober. He breached the contract so he was fired.
Knoxville has said that Bam wouldn’t go to rehab as part of his contract though, so sounds pretty covered to me.
1) the United States is the wild west for hiring and firing so depending on the state I’m guessing Knoxville is fine
2) there’s surely a difference between protections for someone whose addiction starts interfering with their job and someone who explicitly signed a contract saying they would not use drugs as a condition of employment
3) who asked for another jackass? i guess they gotta make bank on the early 00s revival now or miss the boat
you can be fired from just about ANY job for “being an addict”, IF the addiction/drug abuse affects your ability to do the job. it doesn’t matter if you work the fryer at Micky D’s or if you’re a brain surgeon. show up f*ed up? lose your job.
and, as noted, ESPECIALLY if there is high liability already, like on a Jackass movie full of crazy stunts. also, as noted, Lohan lost work because of her behavior and how it was affected by her addiction.
ETA: I F*CKING HATE Bam Margera and always have. the way he literally beat his father for laughs, and played really mean “tricks” on him was terrible. plus, he was so sadistic on Jackass. he seemed to take so much pleasure in other people being hurt but never wanted to be the one getting hurt, and if he got punked somehow on the show, he’d make sure that whatever happened to him also happened to other people. he’s gross in every way.
I always wondered how Phil and April never ended up having heart attacks or strokes from the stress of his stunts. That particular one where Bam rigged Phil’s van with fireworks would have been enough to kill most people from the fright.
After the Don Vito revelations, I kinda wondered if his behaviour wasn’t some sort of acting out about it. Possibly even because Vito may have done something to him. Doesn’t excuse that ish though. Bam’s been rubbish all along.
the work on Jackass forever was contractual, not a regular full time employment situation, and it was a contract for a movie not a long-term contract for a series. The clause was probably required as much by the insurer underwriting the project as it was desired by his co-stars.
Wow. Douchebro Frat Boy OG dumbass sues other Douchebro Frat Boy OG dumbass for not being an evolved, sympathetic human. Shocking.
I love dry shampoo lol It’s refreshing.
same. it creates great body too.
A lot of those guys have honestly cleaned up their lives a lot (Steve-O REALLY did, dude was spiraling down the drain in the early 2000s), but Bam has just gone completely downhill since his friend’s death. I really think they were trying to help him by incentivizing rehab for him, but he’s just…too far gone to some extent. You have to want to be fixed when it comes to addiction. He doesn’t seem to want that. At that point, it’s tough love. Pity and enabling behavior do not help addicts in the long run.
Bam was going downhill way before Dunn’s death. And he’s still using Dunn’s death as an excuse for his addiction, for being an asshole to his wife and son, and for everything else. He’s also blaming that HIM singer for his bulimia, because he wanted to look like him but couldn’t. And now he’s blaming Johnny Knoxville because he himself can’t stay sober/clean on the job.
So he’s got a lot of issues, but the first thing he needs to do is admit to himself that he is to blame for his problems and nobody else.
Yes that’s my guess too they probably thought well be enough of a shock and a wake-up call to get him to finally commit to a rehab again, and maybe this time he’d fully stay sober long term. I don’t think it’s going to end well for Bam. But I hope I’m wrong.
OK, let’s get real for a minute…..
Everyone involved with Jackass has limited talent.
Limited talent with no actual skills IRL plus continued liquor, drug use, spending money like it’s never gonna stop = broke as heck = lawsuit, or selling gossip. Anything except a proper job.
Hey, no shame in working 9-5 just like the rest of us.
If he signed a contract saying he agreed to termination of employment if he didn’t stay clean and sober, then didn’t stay clean and sober, how is it unethical treatment?
I mean, I understand if it’s just, “you failed a drug screen, you’re fired,” but it was literally spelled out in his contract that the consequence of getting loaded would be being fired, so he knew going in exactly what was on the line. It wasn’t sprung on him.
Yes exactly. Bam will never get sober and stay sober, if he can’t come to a place of being able to take responsibility for his own actions and ramifications.