YouTube/Steve-O’s Wild Ride! & Real Time With Bill Maher
Jackass star Steve-O, real name Stephen Glover, claimed in a recent episode of his podcast that a proposed interview with Bill Maher fell through after Maher refused to abstain from smoking weed in the recovering drug addict’s presence.
“I’m a clean and sober guy. Like it’s very important that I maintain my sobriety,” said Glover to guest Patrick Bet-David during a recent episode of his Wild Ride! podcast, before adding that he had been sober for almost sixteen years.
Glover continued:
There’s nothing, really there’s nothing that I value more than my sobriety. There’s nothing more that I protect than my recovery. And I found it kind of upsetting when the Bill Maher podcast, which I saw you on, reached out and they– You know, his thing is he smokes pot the whole time while he interviews people, and I said, “Hey, I would happily go on there, but could he, while I’m on, out of respect for my sobriety, could he refrain from smoking pot?” He said, “No, that’s a dealbreaker.”
The Jackass star concluded, “And Mike Tyson’s podcast is called Hotboxin’. Like the whole point– Like be real, all of these prolific potheads, I’ve been on their shows and it wasn’t so important to them to blow marijuana smoke in my face. But for Bill Maher, it was a dealbreaker.”
Both Steve-O and Bill Maher became top trending topics on the social network X, Tuesday after the anecdote went viral.
Reacting to the news, Jess Margera – brother of Steve-O’s Jackass co-star Bam Margera – tweeted, “Bill can’t go without weed for one hour just simply out of respect for someone in recovery says all I need to hear about Bill.”
Maher, a prominent marijuana enthusiast, made headlines in 2016 after he lit up and smoked a joint live on his show Real Time.
