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What made you decided to write Professional Idiot: A Memoir?
Jackass and what I’m known for is so silly and so crazy and just stupid really. Having made a career out of doing that stuff, I felt like there was nothing more to me than breaking bones and shoving things up my butt. I wanted to do a book to reveal that there is and has been more to me than all that stuff. It’s something I wanted to do for the longest time. The book actually starts off with me in jail in 1996, penning a jailhouse memoir because it was so important to me that the world know my story back then. Writing a book was something that was inevitable. It was just a matter of when. With the drugs and alcohol and everything I went through, it would have been impossible for me to make it happen before I got sober. I think the time to do it, just kind of presented itself. Once I had a couple years of sobriety under my belt and some perspective on what all really happened, I wanted to reveal that there’s more to me and be honest about what had happened. It’s not a flattering story at all and I’m not proud of the story, but I’m real proud of the book. I don’t have any regrets. All the worst stuff I ever did led me to become desperate to make a change. I’m in a good place today and I’m happy about it.
Steve-O performs at The Comedy Zone (900 Seaboard St., Suite B3) July 28-30. Tickets are $25-$30. For more information and to purchase tickets call 704-295-4242 or visit www.cltcomedyzone.com. Steve-O will sign copies of his new book at Barnes and Noble (4020 Sharon Road) on July 30. For more information, call 704-364-0626 or visit www.barnesandnoble.com.
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