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The former "Jackass" actor claimed, "My body was shutting down, and I went into four seizures."

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Bam Margera, a former "Jackass" actor, said that during medical treatment for COVID around a month ago, he was "essentially proclaimed dead."

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On Thursday's episode of frequent collaborator Steve-"Wild O's Ride!" podcast, Margera discussed a "gnarly" case of the illness he had in December.

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Margera said that he spent eight days in the hospital and that he was essentially declared dead on December 8, Elvis Presley's birthday.

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"My body was shutting down, and I had four seizures that lasted between 10 and 20 minutes," he added.

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 I chewed my tongue so hard on the fourth one that it almost fell out.

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He claimed that finally, his tongue became so large and puffy that it couldn't fit inside his mouth.

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He said, "And I was drinking the diseased blood, which also brought me pneumonia.

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I was having my seventh seizure when the shaman rushed me to the hospital, and I was unable to breathe without a tube down my mouth.

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He "blacked out," according to Margera, while in the hospital.

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He claimed to have been there for only a few hours and to have awakened five days later when he spoke to Steve-O.