Jackass Star Steve-O On Suicide Watch
March 13, 2008 by staralicious
Filed under Steve-O
Jackass star Steve-O is being held at L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after threatening to take his own life.
According to an insider, he was taken to the emergency room on Sunday afternoon. After drug tests, he was checked into the Thalians Mental Health Center, where he was put on a 72-hour hold, which has since been extended to 14 days.
“Steve is stabilized on meds at this point,” the source said. “He was also treated for burns on his skin as if he had been putting cigarettes out on his own body.”
Friends and family have become increasingly concerned about the star’s mental state, especially following his March 3 arrest following a dispute with a neighbor. Days after, a close family member told Star that Steve-O  real name Stephen Glover  suffers from untreated bipolar disorder.
“Right now he’s in his extreme mania,” the family member said. “His concerned friends and family are hoping he’ll seek treatment. He doesn’t need jail, he needs therapy. We’re just really hoping that this will be the wake-up call that gets him back to himself.”
But the situation escalated over the weekend when Steve-O, 33, e-mailed suicide notes to several friends, blaming a broken romance. Eventually a woman friend and his bodyguard took him to the hospital around 2pm on Sunday. But he caused a major scene in the hospital, says one insider.
“Steve started flipping out. He told doctors he wanted to hurt himself badly. He wanted to break every bone in his body one by one.”
Compounding his problems is the fact that he has also been charged by the L.A. County District Attorney with felony possession of cocaine following his arrest on March 3 for allegedly vandalizing his neighbor’s property, whereupon cops found him in possession of coke.
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