"What's going on there?" he asks his colleague, who, despite his superior medical qualifications, seems to be at a bit of a loss.
"It's not a wave complex I'm used to seeing," Dr. Hill replies.
From there, Tyler's connection with Steve's mom becomes clearer and clearer. As he's acknowledging references to a "decline" in her quality of life tied to a critical incident that happened before she actually passed and left her dangerously alone, the former Jackass star is visibly upset by the memory.
"The point of decline was five years before mom died," he says, explaining that his mother suffered an aneurism in the fall of 1998 and didn't receive immediate care because her then-partner "just failed to call for an ambulance" in a timely manner, leaving her "physically and mentally disabled" for the last years of her life and often alone, too.
"That pain that she was in…I still can't really handle that very well," Steve admits. "I have a lot of personal trauma over the pain and suffering that my mom went through."
See the highly emotional reading in the clip above.
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