The star of Jackass, Bam Margera, has been candid about his struggle with bulimia for over a decade and in an episode of Viceland’s Epicly Later’d, he and his mom April opened up about his struggles in detail:

“When you’re on camera a lot, people have a lot to say. He always wanted to have this very slim, slim look and a lot of it kind of happened when he became good friends with Ville Valo,” April said. “[Ville] is the loveliest man ever, but he never ate, he just drank. I think Bam started sipping on a beer or sipping on a something because he like the way he looked.”

From there, the drinking morphed into bulimia, April said: “We would go out to dinner and then he would immediately excuse himself and go to the bathroom,” she said. “I said, ‘Are you throwing up?’ He says, ‘Yeah, yeah, sometimes I throw up and that way I’m not gonna get fat.’ It really hurts me when people make comments like, ‘You look like you gained some weight there. Hey, wow, Bam… you’re looking like your dad,’ I don’t respond, but I feel like saying, ‘He was drinking alcohol and he was bulimic and that’s why he was thin.’”