Cocaine is definitely one hell of a drug, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t inspired an endless bevy of fascinating stories. Just ask Jackass legendSteve-O, a now-former employer of coke's fleeting joys, about how the white frost once inspired a particularly thrilling discussion on racism with none other than Mike Tyson.
"I've done fucking cocaine with Mike Tyson, dude," Steve-O told GQ in a recent (and highly recommended) interview. "We spent three hours locked in a bathroom together." According to Steve-O’s half of this epic tale of cocainery, he simply showed up to a party in the Hollywood Hills uninvited and knocked on the door. To his pleasant surprise, Mike Tyson answered. "I said, 'Hey, is it cool if I come in?'" Steve-O recalled. "And [Tyson] said, 'You got any coke?'"
Steve-O did, in fact, have plenty of cocaine. "I had like a whole eight ball in one pocket, half an eight ball in the other pocket," the recent Seaworld prank instigator said, adding that he and Tyson took their haul to the nearest bathroom and promptly locked the door. As Tyson proceeded to empty out a cigarette and refill it with cocaine, an intense discussion started to unfold.
Citing his tendency at the time to "develop Tourette’s syndrome" if his level of fucked-upness was high enough, Steve-O said he kicked things off with this: "You know, Mike, I don’t have a racist bone in my body, but I like to consider myself a n*****." According to Steve-O, Tyson then responded: "You ask me, the definition of that word is anybody who uses it." The conversation then continued down a path centered on the "finer points of racism in America," Steve-O recalls, making the pair's next encounter (at a psychiatric ward, no less) quite friendly indeed.
Steve-O can next be seen in a new Showtime special entitled Steve-O: Guilty as Charged, premiering this Friday. Cocaine will not be involved!
