Train Wrecks
Gummi Bear is Disintegrating!

Posted Aug 20th 2007 11:37AM by TMZ Staff

TMZ has learned that our favorite ursine specimen, Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis, has developed -- wait for it -- a flesh eating disease! Call a vet!


Gummi told our staffer that he contracted a staph infection after scraping his legs in a nasty fall a couple of months ago. Gummi fall down go boom! The open wounds became infected, causing "weeping" sores that spread all over his body, back and legs. Unbearable! Gummi said he's on a powerful antibiotic called Zyvox-- at $4,000 a pop! Jason told a TMZ staffer, "I am literally being eating alive!" A smorgasboard for bacteria that could take up to thirty-two years to accomplish.

One positive thing for Gummi: he's given up booze and says he hasn't had a drink for nine weeks. Just when the bear was repairing, he starts to rot.

Filed under: Train Wrecks, Wacky & Weird

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1. I don't know why, but this guy makes me laugh. ;-)

Posted at 12:48PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Ledbetter1212

2. TEAM BACTERIA!!!!

Posted at 12:50PM on Aug 20th 2007 by i need a t-shirt

3. He looks like Ursela from The Little Mermaid.

Posted at 12:53PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Erin

4. I know, he's hilarious in some weird way. He reminds me of someone from back in the 1920s or 1930s. Just very strange and eccentric, but harmless.

He sure is nicer than his idiot brother...

Posted at 12:56PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Baby Shamble

5. Cool! A picture of a beach whale on a lawn chair. Pretty rare!!
Hope someone shot it and put it out of misery. Looks pretty miserable if you ask me.

Posted at 1:01PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Linds Binds

6. You know that scene in "Click" where Adam Sandler gets fat? This guy looks like him in that scene.

Posted at 1:16PM on Aug 20th 2007 by writergal

7. Oh God, did he have sex with Paris? She has been known to have weeping sores in unmentionable places.

Posted at 1:24PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Homey

8. Looks like fat bastard LOL

Posted at 1:25PM on Aug 20th 2007 by chubby chaser

9. OMG they are oozing through his shirt! Jabba the Hut is back!!!

Posted at 1:29PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Paris hater

10. OMG - i howl each time TMZ writes about Gummi.....frickin hilarious!!

Posted at 1:31PM on Aug 20th 2007 by gothdiva

11. I swear I saw Simon Birch hiding under gummi's moo-moo.

Posted at 1:42PM on Aug 20th 2007 by I love you simon

12. For some strange reason, out of all the famous for no reason people you spotlight here, I like him. All the rest annoy me to no end. I hope he stays sober. Good luck Jason.

Posted at 1:55PM on Aug 20th 2007 by dreamy

13. I don't understand how he can have flesh eating disease and still be alive and walking around!! My ex-husband died from flesh eating!! once this starts it eats at your body, 1- inch per hour, that is way most people have large chunks of their bodies missing because they have to dig it out to try and stop it from continuing to eat at your flesh. He should consider himself extremely lucky than if he has not needed to be ripped apart by surgeons!!!

Posted at 2:04PM on Aug 20th 2007 by carol

14. #8 - hilarious! I was actually thinking is that Jiminy Glick?!

Posted at 2:07PM on Aug 20th 2007 by In L.A.

15. Sounds like he contracted HERPES from Paris!

Posted at 2:08PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Stevie B

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