Johnny Knoxville expressed well wishes for his former “Jackass” co-star Bam Margera, who reportedly left rehab multiple times this year.

Margera named Knoxville in a lawsuit last year, claiming he was wrongfully terminated from the latest “Jackass” movie, before dropping the suit in April.

“It boils down to: I love Bam,” Knoxville told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “I know that a lot has happened. I just want him to get well for himself and his family. I love the guy, and I want him to get well and stay well.”

Knoxville, who co-created the “Jackass” franchise that began with a stunt-and-prank MTV show more than two decades ago, says he last spoke with Margera about a year and a half ago.

In June, Margera was in and out of his court-ordered treatment program at a Florida sober-living center, according to TMZ. He reportedly then left rehab in September and was spotted at a bar in Sarasota, Florida.

Margera’s legal team alleged in the 2021 lawsuit that the “Jackass” creators required him to come to a “Wellness Agreement,” and claimed his firing took place after a drug test “demonstrated that he was taking prescription Adderall.”

The film at the center of the complaint, “Jackass Forever,” premiered in February. Knoxville wouldn’t commit to the possibility of Margera one day returning to the movie and TV franchise.

“I think that would be a discussion,” Knoxville said. “I only want him to get better. That’s the first step. He has to take that step and maintain that step, because everything else is just gravy. ‘Jackass’ is not important when you’re talking about someone’s life.”

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Former daytime TV star Wendy Williams has left a wellness facility she checked into in August and is "home and healing."

"Wendy is excited about the road ahead and looking forward to releasing her many projects," her publicist Shawn Zanotti said Wednesday in a statement to the Los Angeles Times.

The erstwhile "Wendy Williams Show" host also thanked her fans in the statement for the "love, support and many prayers" that have come her way, adding that she's "back and better than ever."

Williams, 58, entered the facility in August. It was announced in mid-September that she was there "seeking help to manage her overall health issues."

"She is taking some time to focus on her health and wellness as she prepares for a major comeback for the next level in her career with 'The Wendy Experience Podcast,'" Zanotti said at the time. "Ms. Williams is being treated by a team of some of the best doctors in the world. We ask for your prayers and well wishes during this time."

The TV and radio star's struggle with Graves' disease and other thyroid concerns delayed Season 13 of her syndicated talk show, which wrapped over the summer with guest host Sherri Shepherd at the helm. Williams bid farewell to her "Wendy watchers" at the end of the show's 12th season in July 2021 amid her health and personal struggles, including an ongoing legal battle with Wells Fargo.

In June, Williams told TMZ that she was also dealing with lymphedema, which was causing her feet and legs to swell.

Williams also told "Extra" in June that she was going to partner with Apple for a podcast after an amicable split with "Wendy" production company Debmar-Mercury, which replaced her show and debuted Shepherd's "Sherri" in its place last month. Apple did not confirm the announcement, but Williams has been teasing the podcast on social media for months.

The Radio Hall of Fame inductee got her start in radio, DJing at her college station in the 1980s and hosting for KISS-FM in New York City in the 1990s before landing her TV show in 2008.

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Actor Anna Faris has accused director Ivan Reitman of berating her and slapping her butt on the set of the 2006 romantic comedy "My Super Ex-Girlfriend."

During Wednesday's episode of her podcast, "Anna Faris Is Unqualified," the "Mom" star spoke with writer-director Lena Dunham about her experience working with Reitman, who died in February at age 75.

"One of my hardest film experiences was with Ivan Reitman," Faris told Dunham. "The idea of attempting to make a comedy under this reign of terror. He was a yeller. He would bring down somebody every day. And my first day, it was me."

Faris said that while preparing to shoot her first scene for "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" — the beginning of a fight sequence with co-star Uma Thurman — a hairstylist accidentally spilled "a quart" of wig glue all over her costume. She was wearing one of two identical Yves Saint Laurent sweaters the costume department had acquired for the shoot.

As a result of the wardrobe malfunction, Faris showed up 20 to 25 minutes late to film the action scene. She said that at the time she was "terrified" that Reitman — known for directing "Ghostbusters" and other hit comedies — would perceive her as "some kind of diva" because of her tardiness.

"It's a night shoot, and Ivan is just taking me down," she recalled. "He always called me Annie. He's like, 'You can't play like that around here' ... and I [internally] was like, 'Don't do it. Don't cry. No crying.' And I felt angry and hurt and humiliated and defensive."

At a certain point, Faris said, she eventually asked the filmmaker, "Did no one tell you what happened?" — after which he "kind of just shut up and ... went behind the camera."

"Then later he slapped my a— too," she added. "That was a weird moment."

The Los Angeles Times was not able to contact a representative for Reitman's estate.

Without naming the person, Faris said years ago in a previous episode of her podcast that all she could do was "giggle" after a director slapped her "a— in front of the crew so hard" on a movie set early in her career.

"I remember looking around and ... seeing the crew members being like, 'Wait, what are you going to do about that? That seemed weird,' " she said in 2017. "And that's how I dismissed it. I was like ... 'It's not that big of a deal. Buck up, Faris. Just giggle.'"

"But it made me feel small," she added. "He wouldn't have done that to the lead male."

Faris also alleged in 2017 that the same unnamed director told her agent she landed a role in his film partially because she "had great legs."

In conversation with Dunham, the "House Bunny" actor mused that Reitman's alleged behavior aligned with an antiquated Hollywood "mentality" that a leader "was supposed to be an a—hole ... a scary one."

"On one hand, it wasn't anything. Whatever, my a— is fine," Faris told Dunham. "On the other hand, I did have, like, 30 people around me expecting me to do something, and I didn't."

From combined wire services