Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk is revealing how he survived his near fatal heart attack that he suffered in the summer of 2021.
10.02.2022 - 06:45 / hollywoodlife.com
Months after his near-fatal heart attack, Bob Odenkirk is reflecting on that day he had to piece together after the fact and the Better Call Saul cast and crew who saved his life. “We were shooting a scene, we’d been shooting all day, and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer,” he told the New York Times in a new interview. The actor shared that he instead went to a place nearby the set where he liked to sit with his co-stars Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian. “I went to play the Cubs game and ride my workout bike, and I just went down.” He added, “Rhea said I started turning bluish-gray right away.”
The actor, 59, noted that he knew “since 2018” that there was “plaque buildup” in his heart, but he didn’t have a clear direction from his doctors on what to do. “I went to two heart doctors at Cedars-Sinai, and I had dye and an M.R.I. and all that stuff, and the doctors disagreed” on a treatment plan. One doctor said he should start medication while another one said he could wait. Bob ultimately went with the latter option.
Bob then clarified that “one of those pieces of plaque broke up,” which caused his heart attack. His co-stars Rhea and Fabian called for help and the on-set health safety supervisor, Rosa Estrada, and an assistant director, Angie Meyer, began giving Bob CPR and shocking him with an automated defibrillator. The first two shocks didn’t bring back his pulse, but “the third time, it got me that rhythm back,” Bob stated.
When he was transferred to the hospital in Albuquerque, doctors went through the veins in his wrist and “and blew up the little balloons and knocked out that plaque and left stents in two places.”
Bob noted that, crazily enough, he didn’t recall the events of that day and instead needed
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Bob Odenkirk is sharing how scary his on-set heart attack really was, and the role his co-stars played in saving his life.On July 27, the celebrated actor was rushed to the hospital after collapsing on the New Mexico set of his acclaimed drama series. Now, speaking with, Odenkirk, 59.
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