Bob Odenkirk opens up about ‘shocking’ near-death ‘heart incident’

Bob Odenkirk opened up concerning the near-death “heart incident” he skilled again in July whereas on the set of his AMC present “Better Call Saul.”

The 59-year-old actor sat down with NBC “Sunday TODAY” present host Willie Geist to debate his “shocking” July 2021 well being scare in a candid interview set to air Sunday.

He defined that medical doctors clarified he had a “heart incident” and never a coronary heart assault, explaining his “widow-maker artery was fully blocked.

“That’s why it’s called the widow-maker, ’cause you die when that happens. But I went down. And I was very lucky that my co-stars, Rhea Seehorn and Patrick Fabian, were right nearby.”

He recounted how his colleagues rushed over and sounded the alarm as well being officers started CPR and finally used a defibrillator 3 times to revive him.

“I was not present for any of it. But I’m told it was a pretty shocking day on set. And traumatizing for all my costars and crew members and people I love very much who love me. And stood by my side and then went to the hospital with me,” Odenkirk mentioned.

He had beforehand shared that he shockingly didn’t have a pulse and had no reminiscence when he initially collapsed between filming.

“We were shooting a scene, we’d been shooting all day, and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer,” he lately informed the New York Times.

The “Better Call Saul” star was rushed to Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the place medical doctors surgically “blew up the little balloons and knocked out that plaque and left stents in two places.”

Odenkirk admitted that he found a plaque buildup in his coronary heart in 2018 however selected to forgo remedy on the time. The father of two mentioned he was positive till final yr when “one of those pieces of plaque broke up.”

He has since recovered and commenced filming once more.