Bob Odenkirk Doesn’t Remember Collapsing on Set Amid His ‘Heart Incident’: ‘A Pretty Shocking Day’
usmagazine.comNearly eight months after Bob Odenkirk collapsed on the set of Better Call Saul, he reflected on his “heart incident” and his recovery.“It was [deadly serious] and my widow-maker artery was completely blocked,” Odenkirk, 59, told Willie Geist during a Friday, March 11, clip of his upcoming Sunday Today interview. “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 and they rushed over to me and set off the alarm, screaming.”Odenkirk collapsed while filming the sixth and final season of the AMC series in July 2021.
After Odenkirk’s small heart attack, health officials on set began CPR and used a defibrillator on him in “three tries,” he told Geist, 46.
The actor was then taken to a local hospital in Albuquerque, New Mexico.“I was not present for any of it,” the Breaking Bad alum recalled during the interview, which airs in full on Sunday, March 13. “But I’m told it was a pretty shocking day on set.
Read more on usmagazine.com
