Steve-O made only $1,500 for Season 1 of “Jackass.”
The reality star divulged the “comical” sum to Playboy, in an interview published Tuesday, clarifying that he was not paid per episode.
“After five days of filming, I was all banged up, hungover, had been bitten by a shark and I pulled out a piece of paper to write down what I felt really needed to be on the show,” Steve-O, 52, explained to the outlet.
“At the top I wrote ‘Goldfish,’ and I thought, while I’m at it, I might as well put what I expect to be paid,” he continued. “Next to ‘Goldfish,’ I literally wrote $200.”
He walked away from that experience with a “little” scar and 500 bucks.
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“When it was all said and done, after taxes, I was paid less than $1,500 for the entire first season of ‘Jackass,’” the “Wildboyz” alum said, noting that his “sister kicked [him] out of the house … before the show” aired.
“I was broke, unemployed and homeless — and a star on this big MTV show,” Steve-O added.
Despite his life being “black-and-white, completely different overnight,” he quipped that “one of the first things [he] learned about fame” is that “it comes a lot easier than fortune.”
Before “Jackass,” Steve-O went to Ringling Bros. Clown College because he had “been homeless for three years” as a stuntman and wasn’t “getting any traction.”
He recalled thinking he he became “a trained circus professional,” people would “take [him] more seriously” in the field.
Steve-O jokingly dubbed himself “the only guy going to Clown College to seek legitimacy.”
“Jackass” aired for three seasons between 2000 and 2001, co-starring Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and more stars, followed by multiple movies and spinoffs.
The franchise will conclude with “Jackass: Best and Last,” out Friday — and Steve-O confirmed it’s “100 percent the end.”
“That’s what this movie is … one last hurrah of all of us getting together and doing whatever we have in us to do,” he said on Tuesday.
