Bob Odenkirk Gives Health Update After Surviving Heart Attack: 'I Am Doing Great'

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Bob Odenkirkhas some good news to share. TheBetter Call Saulstar, 58, gave an update on his health a week and a half aftersuffering a small heart attackon set late last month. “I am doing great,” hetweetedFriday night. “I’ve had my very own ‘It’s a wonderful life’ week of people insisting I make the world slightly better.” “Wow! Thank you, I love everyone right now but let’s keep expectations reasonable!...

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 406 words · Derek Ayala

Bob Odenkirk in 'Stable Condition' After 'Heart-Related Incident' on 'Better Call Saul' Set

After suddenly collapsing on the set ofBetter Call Saulon Tuesday, Bob Odenkirk is in “stable condition,” his rep tells PEOPLE. Odenkirk, 58, wasrushed to the hospitalTuesday morning after collapsing on the New Mexico set of the beloved AMC series, which is currently in production on its sixth and final season. “The Odenkirks would also like to thank everyone for the outpouring of well wishes and ask for their privacy at this time as Bob works on his recovery,” the statement continues....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 276 words · Shawn Hogan

Bob Odenkirk Needed 3 Defibrillator Shocks to Get His Pulse Back After On-Set Heart Attack

Bob Odenkirk.Photo: Stewart Cook/ShutterstockBob Odenkirk has hisBetter Call Saulcast and crew to thank for saving his life — and for filling in the blanks of what happened the day ofhis near-fatal heart attack.Odenkirk, 59, suddenly collapsed on July 27 after finishing up a scene for the show’s sixth and final season.“We were shooting a scene, we’d been shooting all day, and luckily I didn’t go back to my trailer,” hetoldThe New York Timesin a new interview....

March 16, 2025 · 7 min · 1406 words · Jessica Brown

Bob Odenkirk on His 'Very Slow Epiphany' After Cardiac 'Incident': 'My Life Is Pretty Damn Great'

Bob Odenkirkhas found clarity after suffering a cardiac event in July.The Emmy Award winner, 59, reflected on his “very slow epiphany” after the “heart incident” that took place on the set ofBetter Call Saul’s final season as he sat down this week with theTodayshow’sHoda Kotb.“The epiphany was simply that my life is pretty damn great, and I should appreciate it and the people around me,” Odenkirk mused. “I think people do have epiphanies when they have a near-death experience, and often times, it’s ‘I have to change something....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 619 words · Carrie Dennis

Bob Odenkirk Posts Selfie as 'Better Call Saul' Wraps Filming on Final Season: 'Honored'

Photo: Bob Odenkirk Instagram Bob Odenkirkis wrapping up a major chapter of his life. “Yesterday an amazing crew of people finished shooting ‘Better Call Saul’ in Albuquerque, NM,” he wrote. “It began in 2014, with great writing always leading the charge, and despite challenges of all kinds, our energy and care never flagged. I am honored to have been part of it.” Better Call Saulpremiered on AMC in 2015 as a spinoff from the popular crime seriesBreaking Bad....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 423 words · Kyle Marshall

Bob Odenkirk Recalls Getting Yelled at by Jeremy Irons over Bad 'SNL' Joke

Bob Odenkirkapparently managed to pushJeremy Irons' buttons — and he cherishes the memory to this day. “Rob Schneider and I had written this monologue, and it wasn’t great,” Odenkirk, who wrote for the NBC show between the late 1980s into the 1990s, told Stern. “He was right. He was really mad. He was so mad.” TheNobodystarwent on to do his best impression of Irons in that particular moment, saying, “I can sing....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 389 words · Johnathan Johnson

Bob Odenkirk Recalls the Last Time He Saw Chris Farley Before He Overdosed: 'Goodbye, My Friend'

Bob Odenkirk and Chris Farley.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images; Steve Granitz Archive 1/WireImage The best time of Bob Odenkirk’s career was when he was on Chicago’s Second City stage with his friend and fellow comedian Chris Farley. Farley’s unsurprising and tragic death, however, was one of the darkest moments, Odenkirk writes in his new memoir. Farley was 33 whenhe died in 1997 of a drug overdose. “It drove me nuts,” Odenkirk continues....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 976 words · Dr. Gregory Watson

Bob Odenkirk Rushed to Hospital After Collapsing on New Mexico Set of 'Better Call Saul'

Bob Odenkirk.Photo: Yuchen Liao/Getty Better Call Saulstar Bob Odenkirk was rushed to the hospital on Tuesday after he collapsed on the show’s New Mexico set, PEOPLE confirms. It is unclear what caused Odenkirk, 58, to collapse, but TMZ reported that the actor was taken to the hospital around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning andremains there for medical care. A rep forBetter Call Sauldid not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 335 words · Patrick Evans

Bob Odenkirk Says 2021 Heart Attack Changed His Life: 'I'm Trying to Be More Present'

Photo: Corey Nickols/Getty You could sayBob Odenkirk’s dance card is pretty full. On the heels of the series finale of his Emmy award-winning hitBetter Call Saul, the 60-year-old actor haswritten a children’s bookwith his 22-year-old daughter Erin and is starring as a disillusioned college professor in AMC’sLucky Hank. Yet the veteran performer is also ready to slow things down. “Big life changes are happening,” Odenkirk tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 291 words · Benjamin Gonzalez

Bob Odenkirk Says He Learned About His Heart Attack from 'Chart' Made by His Daughter

Bob Odenkirk and his daughter Erin Odenkirk photographed on Oct. 10, 2023.Photo:Nathan Congleton/NBC via Gett Nathan Congleton/NBC via Gett Bob Odenkirkhas his daughter to thank for a speedy recovery following his jarring heart attack three years ago. The actor, 60, opened up about the days that came after his“small heart attack” on the set ofBetter Call Saulin July 2021 for the first time as he revealed that his daughter, Erin Odenkirk, played a special role in the aftermath....

March 16, 2025 · 3 min · 614 words · Jeffery Bush

Bob Odenkirk Says He's Going to 'Be OK' After Suffering a 'Small Heart Attack': 'I Feel the Love'

Bob Odenkirk.Photo: Stewart Cook/ShutterstockBob Odenkirkis feeling the love after suffering a small heart attack earlier this week.The actor, 58, shared on Twitter, Friday, that he’s going to be okay following the medical scare, which led him to be hospitalized on Tuesday after hecollapsed on the set ofBetter Call Saul.Odenkirk gave a shoutout to his doctors, as well as those who have beensharing their well wishessince news of the incident.“Hi. It’s Bob....

March 16, 2025 · 5 min · 978 words · Joshua Taylor

Bob Odenkirk Says' Better Call Saul' Cast and Crew Were 'Traumatized' After His Heart Attack on Set

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesBob Odenkirksaid theBetter Call Saulcast and crew were greatly impacted after his heart attack on set.At theBreaking Badspinoff’s season 6 premiere event on Thursday, Odenkirk, 59, told PEOPLE that when he returned to filming last year he noticed that his coworkers still had memories of reviving him and coming to his aid.“I would say that the cast and crew were more traumatized than me, because I have a blank space where I had this heart attack,” the actor said....

March 16, 2025 · 6 min · 1239 words · Brian Mitchell

Bob Odenkirk Spotted Out for First Time in L.A. Months After Heart Attack on 'Better Call Saul' Set

Bob Odenkirkwas seen in public for the first time since hesuffered a small heart attackin July. TheBetter Call Saulstar, 59, was photographed grabbing groceries in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Wearing sneakers, jeans, a black zip-up jacket and a baseball cap, he left the store with one bag and a few fire-starting logs. The sighting comes six months after Odenkirk wasrushed to the hospitalfor collapsing on the New Mexico set ofBetter Call Saul, which at the time was in production on its sixth and final season....

March 16, 2025 · 2 min · 306 words · Matthew Gonzales