Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 9 minutes ago
Johnny Knoxville spoke about the ramifications he dealt with after suffering a concussion during the making of his movies. "It was catastrophic thinking, ruminating, the whole world was closing in...People would tell me, ‘Your brain is playing tricks on you.’"

Category

🎵
Music
Transcript
00:00That's hard footage for me to watch.
00:02Which one?
00:02Well, the last movie.
00:04Oh, with the magician?
00:05The magician, yeah, the magic trick.
00:07I am Johnny the Magnificent.
00:10That time was really hard to recover from.
00:13Yeah, that took five or six months to recover.
00:19I mean, real traumatic brain injuries.
00:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:21I was just catastrophic thinking, ruminating.
00:26And just every, the whole world was closing in.
00:30And it was, it was, it was a, I have a lot of sympathy for myself then.
00:38Mm-hmm.
00:39Because you're getting fed, your brain's feeding you such terrible information.
00:44And people outside would tell me, like, your brain's playing tricks on you.
00:51I'm like, no, no, it's happening.
00:53And, like, nothing's happening.
00:57And just kind of, my mind, my creative brain turned against me just over five or six months.
01:05It just, my mind just fell off a cliff.
01:08But then I got on medicine and it just started turning around.
01:14I started feeling like myself again.
01:15And then you slowly come out of it.
01:17And you're like, because you can, I can remember exactly how I felt then.
01:20And everything was in my head happening.
01:25Nothing happening.
01:27It was frightening.
01:28I'm like, I gotta be here.
01:28So I'm like, I'm all about to try my job.
01:29And I help you.
01:29I promise you.
Comments

Recommended