Steve-O says he’s no longer getting breast implants, noting that “the universe intervened” after the doctors bailed and he had a “profound” conversation with a transgender person.
The former Jackass star planned to get temporary breast implants for hidden camera sketches that he was planning to film for his upcoming live tour, “The Super Dummy Tour.”
With the implants, Steve-O was going to make himself look like a woman and then trick groups of unsuspecting men.
“I got within 10 hours of being in surgery for that,” Steve-O told Consequence. “The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning. And 10:00 PM the night before, I got a call that the anesthesiologist backed out of it, because he found out that it was me doing it as a stunt. And that kind of set off a chain reaction where the doctor didn’t want to be associated with it anymore, and they were having trouble finding another surgery center to to make it happen.”
The next day Steve-O was at a grocery store and the clerk checking him out happened to be transgender, so he asked if he could run his plan by them. He says their conversation had a “profound impact” on him and made him feel as if “the universe intervened.”
“I knew what my motivation was, I knew what my intention was, and it wasn’t to be hurtful to anybody,” Steve-O said. “I was just trying to get laughs. I had done a bunch of workshop shows to test out material, and I had a number of trans people come to me after the shows to voice support for [the stunt]. And I think some people would’ve been okay with it, and some people wouldn’t have. It would’ve been a mixed bag.”
As for the grocery store clerk, they helped him realize “the part where I deliberately went out to trick people into thinking that I was a woman and then fooling them, and then kind of celebrating the idea of hate towards [trans people] — that was a [bad] thing.”
Additionally, the clerk “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 then decided not to pursue the idea any further. “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. Especially the pranks,” he said.
The former Wildboyz star and host of the Wild Ride! with Steve-O podcast originally announced his plan to get breast implants in July and had done most of the prep work for it. He will head out on his “The Super Dummy Tour” in theaters around the U.S. this fall.
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