Bob Odenkirk is revealing more about his heart attack last year.
The 59-year-old Better Call Saul star had collapsed on set back in July 2021 while he was finishing a scene for the sixth and final season of the show.
In a new interview with the New York Times, Bob shed more light on the seriousness of his condition at the time. He recounted:
“We were shooting a scene, we’d been shooting all day, and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer.
I went to play the Cubs game and ride my workout bike, and I just went down… Rhea [Seehorn] said I started turning bluish-gray right away.”
He went on to say that an assistant director, Angie Meyer, began to give him CPR on set, and shocked him with an automated defibrillator. He shared that the first two shocks did not work:
“The third time, it got me that rhythm back.”
At the hospital, the doctors went through veins in his wrist “and blew up the little balloons and knocked out that plaque and left stents in two places.”
Bob clarified that he had already been aware that something was off with his heart, but had been unclear as to how to manage it:
“I’d known since 2018 that I had this plaque buildup in my heart.
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 the course of action and whether to begin medicating].”
On what caused the heart attack, he revealed:
“One of those pieces of plaque broke up.”
Bob spent one week in the hospital, and is now in much better health again. We’re glad to hear he’s back to good health!
