Steve-O Cancels Breast Implant Surgery After Asking Transgender Person: ‘Maybe It’s Not All Fun and Games’
The former 'Jackass' star realized that not everything should be handled as a joke after his surgeons backed out of the procedure.
Steve-O has revealed he pulled the plug on a joke where he would get breast implants for a hidden camera sketch for his upcoming tour after meeting a transgender person right before surgery.
In an interview with Consequence, the Jackass alum explained what happened to the joke where he would trick random men on the street as a segment for his live tour, "The Super Dummy Tour." Steve-O was scheduled to get breast implants, but the anesthesiologist removed themselves from the operation after finding out why the reality star was having the surgery.
"I got within 10 hours of being in surgery for that," Steve-O said. "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."
Steve-O was trying to figure out a way to pull off the joke until he met a transgender person working at a grocery store. He asked the person their thoughts on the joke and the person reportedly told him it was distasteful and not a good idea.
"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," said Steve-O before explaining what the person told him about their experiences being transgender.
"[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," Steve-O added. "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."
He continued, "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."
