Steve-O, the comic and stuntman greatest identified for his antics on Jackass, has revealed that Prince was “a jerk” when the two males met.
The precise date of the encounter was not revealed, although Steve-O appeared to recommend it came about within the early 2000s. The Jackass star had a go-to social gathering trick that he usually pulled out at celeb occasions: He’d stability a cup on his head, then proceed to drink the liquid inside with out utilizing his arms. Often, witnesses could be impressed. Prince was not.
“Prince was tremendous a jerk to me. I bear in mind I used to be like, ‘Prince! Prince! Dude, let me present you a trick,” Steve-O recalled on his Wild Ride! podcast. “So I’m doing my trick. And I had this mannequin girlfriend. And he turns to my mannequin girlfriend and he’s like, ‘Does this impress you?’ Like he stated it in an actual condescending dick method. … And my mannequin girlfriend stated, ‘Yeah, it is truly fairly spectacular, you need to test it out.'”
Prince wasn’t the one rocker bored with Steve-O’s antics. The comic recalled Perry Farrell of Jane’s Dependancy “hated” the identical trick when Steve-O tried to carry out it for him in a crowded nightclub. Issues went even worse when Steve-O tried to tug off the identical trick for Child Rock. “He simply straight kicked me,” Steve-O recalled, “knocked the cup off my head and ruined my trick.”
Although his interactions with Prince and the opposite aforementioned rockers didn’t go easily, Steve-O doesn’t appear to carry a grudge over the incident. Laughing about it now, the Jackass alum admitted: “I undoubtedly impressed lots of people to be jerks to me.”
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