Before his sad death last week, legendary stuntman Evel Knievel sat down with Maxim magazine at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for an exclusive and revealing interview that, according to Evel, “…may be the last interview I ever do.”
Knievel suffered from a rare lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
Says Evel, “how much can a human body endure? My immune system’s shot. The doctors gave me three years four years ago. I got this disease that’s so rare there’s no cure. I don’t know of anybody else who had it except Marlon Brando.”
During the interview Evel opens about how he found God a few months ago, in a hotel room in Daytona Beach. “All my life I was an atheist,” he says. “I’d tell people I didn’t believe Jesus could walk on water. Then something happened in Daytona. God spoke to me. He said, ‘Robert, you got to stop tellin’ people you don’t believe in me. I been takin’ care of you for years, watchin’ over you. I done everything for you. And you go tell people you don’t believe in me. You gotta stop it.’ ” Evel puts his hands over his face, then sobs, “I told God I’d never insult him again.”
Amen!
Click here to read the full interview.
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