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Fame can be addictive. From his start videotaping crazy skateboard stunts to starring in the blockbuster Jackass franchise, there was little that Stephen "Steve-O" Glover wouldn't do for attention. Whether it was stapling his nutsack to his calf, diving into a pool packed with elephant crap, or routinely risking fatality invading the private lives of sharks, lions, tigers, and bears, almost nothing was out of bounds. As the stunts acquired crazier, his life held rate. He developed a crippling habit to alcohol and drugs, and an obsession with his own movie star that proved practically as dangerous. Steve-O has been a man searching for a spotlight pretty much since labor and birth. Growing up all over the world, because of his father's profession as a corporate and business executive, he was a child who'd drink handfuls of salt in order to make friends. After he stole a video camera from his father as an adolescent, his future journey was more or less sealed. Footage of himself skateboarding soon provided way to video footage of himself establishing his hair on fire or doing back again flips off apartment buildings into shallow swimming pools. After detours to many hospitals, a couple of jails, and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College or university, he arrived, quite in a natural way, on MTV's Jackass, in 2000. He got to fame like it was the thing missing from his life, but it was never enough. He crammed the void with booze and drugs, and soon started treating his lifetime like it was one big-and supremely risky-stunt. In 2008, Steve-O holed up in his Western world Hollywood apartment, where he drank, snorted, smoked, huffed, and swallowed drugs across the clock-and started broadcasting his downward spiral on the Internet. Finally, his Jackass comrade, Johnny Knoxville, and seven other friends staged an treatment and pressured him into a psychiatric ward against his will, ultimately conserving his life. Today he has been clean and sober for more than three years. Professional Idiot recounts the lunacy, the debauchery, the stunts, the medicine addiction and the road to recovery and redemption with the same bravado and humor which may have endeared Steve-O to so many. Hilarious, harrowing, and motivating all at one time, Professional Idiot will captivate those who've been with him on his many crazy trips, as well as delight and intrigue those who know him only as the dude ready to do anything-no matter how painful-for fun.
