I don't follow Bam that closely but I didn't realize how much he's balding before. His head has gotten so fat and his eyelids have gotten thick that he's starting to look like he's morphing into a bullfrog. Went from a twink to looking like a contestant on TCAP.
This pic just reminded me that Phil once said, many years ago, that Bam was afraid he’d end up looking like Vito one day. If only there’d been some way to avoid that fate.
I hope I didn't brain my damage
i feel like dunn dying for sure contributed but not in the way of bam being sad about it as much as it was just one less reason for him to even try to get better. the real issue with bam is that the dude just never grew up he thought he could live that rock star care free skater life forever because thats the type of people he hung out with. till eventually he just fell so deep into it even if he tried it was almost impossible to bring himself out of it. combine that with his very obvious family connections to addiction in both his dad and uncle its pretty obvious he was gonna end up the same way.
It's quite possible. But it isn't like he wasn't already a wetbrained idiot.
Jesus fuckin’ christ. Four seizures before he even got to the hospital. And no one thought after the first one that maybe, just maybe, this is really bad? Or were the whores and drug dealers too busy cleaning up evidence? Wow.
Funny they didn't say, "Bam went to the hospital for seizures due to drug and alcohol abuse and was found to also have Covid and pneumonia" instead, "Bam had Covid and pneumonia."
>four seizures
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It seems like Ryan Dunn dying was not just the worst thing to happen in his life but perhaps the ONLY bad thing to have happened to him to that point, his parents are like something from a tv sitcom in their affection and fawning over him his entire life particularly in youth and after that he was in a position to spoil himself, he was and remains totally sheltered from life's true harshness and as such developed zero tools to cope with it.
I’d suggest the complete lack of parental discipline is a bad thing in his case. I’m not blaming them entirely, they seem nice enough, and god knows they’re paying for any neglect a million times over now.
The thing about Bam and skateboarding is that he was never any good at it. If you go back to his pre fame video parts its all throwaway park footage, even in his prime he never had a good video part. Jackass/CKY pranks is what made him and he threw that away. Most skaters who go through rough patches can usually make a comeback if they've got talent: just throw up some footage on YouTube or Instagram and people will watch it. But nobody wants to see a fat hasbeen junky struggle to blunt stall on a miniramp.
I won't PL too hard but from people I've known who've abused drink and drugs, suffering from seizures for any reason is basically the beginning of the end. It's sad but it seems like it's inevitable in Bam's case. As many others have said, you have to want to clean yourself up, and he clearly can't be fucked.
