Johnny Knoxville posted a message about his late Jackass co-star Ryan Dunn on Saturday after being too overcome with emotion to speak at Dunn’s memorial last week.
“At Ryan’s memorial Wednesday night in West Chester, people were invited up to the microphone to say a few words about his life, whatever they were feeling at that moment. I walked to the podium and tried to share memories of my dear friend, but the words were just spinning in my head. What came out were the mumblings of a man trying his best not to cry, and I wasn’t even successful at that,” Knoxville wrote.
“I felt 34-percent funnier when I was with Ryan, but I guess everyone did. He had such a hair trigger laugh reflex. He lived his life wanting to laugh and wanting you to laugh with him. He would cackle really fucking loud, too, and it wasn’t uncommon that he would fall over from it. Sometimes I would fall with him because his spirit was very contagious,” the actor continued. “He wasn’t incapable of seriousness, though. Ryan was a great listener. If you were having troubles, he was always someone you could go sit down and talk to.”
“I know your spirit lives on in me, Angie, Bam and everyone you touched, but that’s pretty tough to see right now through the tears. I’m starting to ramble now, just like I did at the memorial, so I’ll stop,” Knoxville added. “You’ll have to excuse me, I’m just very sad because I lost my brother and my world got about 134-percent less funny. I don’t know what else to say right now, so I will close with I love you, Ryan. I have a lot of emotions swirling, but I want you to know I love you so very much.”
Dunn, 34, and his friend Zachary Hartwell died last Monday in a car accident on a Pennsylvania highway. Police say Dunn had a blood alcohol level of 0.196 and was speeding between 132 – 140 mph when his Porsche careened off the highway, crashed into trees and burst into flames. Autopsy reports say both Dunn and Hartwell suffered “blunt and thermal trauma.”
Dunn starred on all three seasons of “Jackass” with Knoxville, Bam Margera and Steve O. He also appeared in the three “Jackass” films, the most recent being 2010’s “Jackass 3D.”
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