Steve-O modified his thoughts about getting brief breast implants upcoming chatting with a transgender particular person.
The “Jackass” alum, 50, defined in an interview with Consequence on Thursday that he was once taking to get a boob activity for secret digital camera pranks on his nearest Super Dummy Tour, the place he’d trick teams of fellows in the street into pondering he was once a lady.
Alternatively, the ones plans had been squashed upcoming he had a probability come upon with a transgender stranger on the grocery collect.
“On the day that the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket. And the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe,” he mentioned.
“So I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them,” Steve-O persisted, “and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”
Steve-O mentioned that his “motivation” for the deliberate sketches weren’t “to be hurtful to anybody,” although he said that the reaction from crowd most likely “would’ve been a mixed bag.”
“I didn’t really have any dedicated meetings or conversations with trans people, because I didn’t really feel that I had to,” he defined. “But I just feel like the universe put this encounter before me, and ultimately I decided that the universe had intervened.”
Steve-O defined his plans to the trans particular person, who in flip advised the well-known comic in regards to the “oppression” they’ve confronted.
“[They] described how they weren’t allowed to use the bathroom at their place of work, that there were like maybe 28 states in the country that would arrest them for having an ID that said female on it. That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up in internment camps. It was really pretty heartbreaking, the level of oppression that was described,” Steve-O mentioned.
“Framed like that, I thought about it in a way that I hadn’t before, where you know, wow, maybe it’s not all fun and games,” he added. “Especially the pranks. Like, I would’ve considered it to be better footage if I was to be beaten up at the motorcycle rally. And just having that mentality was very flawed, because ultimately it would be an exercise in celebrating violence against trans people. At least, it would be interpreted that way by some, and when it was put to me that way, I thought, wow, maybe I missed the mark on that one.”
Steve-O mentioned that he doesn’t feel sorry about taking flight of the surgical treatment, however he does feel sorry about publicly pronouncing his plans for the stunt.
“It was difficult for me,” he mentioned. “Looking back on it, I’m extremely grateful that it didn’t happen. I’m really glad that I didn’t go through with it. But that didn’t make it any easier, because I was so vocal about my plans to do that, and I’ve never been the kind of artist to say I was going to do something and then not do it. That was what I had trouble with, was not honoring my word.”
Steve-O added, “I think it’s a very valuable trait to be able to admit when you’ve got things wrong.”
The “Jackass Forever” superstar advised everybody he was once getting breast implants at the “X5 Podcast” in July.
He mentioned on the generation he was once “so particularly in love” with the speculation “because the opportunity for comedy I believe is absolutely there.”
“It’s like the quintessential Steve-O — that level of commitment,” he added.
