Jackass star Steve-O has shared on why he changed his mind on getting breast implants, which he first announced in July was part of a series of planned pranks.

The stunt would have involved Steve-O getting his “whole body waxed”, with all his tattoos removed via airbrush, and losing weight to “get really slender and petite”. Steve-O would then attend a motorcycle rally attempting to capture “big gangs of motorcycle riders” checking him out before he reveals his real identity. “I would walk up to pull off my helmet and say, ‘Yeah, dude,’ and get this crazy reaction, which, predictably, would be contentious,” he shares.

It was this part of the plan that the person Steve-O spoke with found troubling – as the act of deliberately tricking men into thinking he’s a woman was planned so he could get footage of being “beaten up at the motorcycle rally”, which he previously explained in July is part of doing a “funny endurance” stunt.

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“The show still has a bunch of really good comedy from that whole episode. And the extent to which I was prepared to go through with that is hilarious in its own right.”

No, it’s not. It’s fucking unhinged, jackass.

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    However, at the time, Steve-O was still determined to see through the ambitious and controversial stunt. It was a conversation he had with a transgender grocery worker that caused him to rethink it.

    “On the day that the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket,” he tells Consequence. “And the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe. So I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”

    sis like, this trans grocery store worker was not expecting to be fucking steve-o’s therapist that day what the hell

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      In terms of cis people seeing a visibly trans person and deciding to asking them random questions, this is way less intrusive than some of the common ones

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      I mean, imagine you’re just at your job at the grocery store and a dude who made a living out of stapling his ballsack to his leg asks you if his idea is transphobic.

      • The anesthesiologist backed out. He’s using the conversation to make this more profound.

        The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning. And 10 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.