After a suicidal freefall that landed him in the Cedars-Sinai psych ward last year (following an eight-person intervention that included Johnny Knoxville), post-millennial stuntman Steve-O is attempting to put his life back together. I only learned of Steve-O’s addiction-fueled meltdown after flipping through the current issue of Spin magazine and stumbling across this article — “The Last Temptation of Steve-O” — by David Peisner (I just don’t keep up with Jackass like I used to I suppose). Anyhow, as a fan of human redemption stories, Peisner’s article pulled me in. Here’s a quick and dirty recap on where Steve-O is today, with some fairly insightful commentary from TV’s Dr. Drew.

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(Image: Steve-O as a kid, before he stapled his balls to his inner thigh, and went on to countless other painful/bone crushing exploits on film.)