Steve-O, the comic and stuntman finest recognized 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 counsel it came about within the early 2000s. The Jackass star had a go-to get together trick that he usually pulled out at movie star occasions: He’d steadiness a cup on his head, then proceed to drink the liquid inside with out utilizing his palms. Sometimes, 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 Journey! 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 means. … And my mannequin girlfriend stated, ‘Yeah, it is really fairly spectacular, you must test it out.'”
Prince wasn’t the one rocker tired of Steve-O’s antics. The comic recalled Perry Farrell of Jane’s Habit “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 drag 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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