Kevin Smith almost died! He tweeted a shot of himself from the hospital bed saying he narrowly avoided death after having a massive “Widow-Maker” heart attack.
Kevin tweeted that after doing a show in Glendale, CA last night, he almost learned the answer to the question, “Does God really look like Alanis Morissette?”
After the first show this evening, I had a massive heart attack. The Doctor who saved my life told me I had 100% blockage of my LAD artery (aka “the Widow-Maker”). If I hadn’t canceled show 2 to go to the hospital, I would’ve died tonight. But for now, I’m still above ground!
Kevin was filming a new standup special called Kevin Smith Live!. There were two shows; one at 6PM and one scheduled for 9PM. Kevin wasn’t feeling so hot after the first show so he canceled the 9:00 and thankfully went to the hospital. This is where I should be making a joke about comedians dying on stage but I’m not a comedian and neither is Kevin, right? Wrong!
The 47-year-old half of the comic movie duo “Jay and Silent Bob” appears to have kept his sense of humor, writing on Instagram, “I was trying to do a killer stand-up special this evening but I might’ve gone to far.”
And here’s the TL;DR version: Death was Kevin’s biggest fear but when he stared it in the face he was “filled with a sense of calm” and was grateful for the amazing life he’s had and was thankful for the opportunity to “die with dignity” because he’d “assumed I’d die screaming, like my Dad (who lost his life to a massive heart attack)” and now that he’s been snatched from death’s grip he’ll be making some lifestyle changes (“maybe it’s time to go Vegan”) and is basically just happy to have survived the ordeal.
Jesus, I doubt I’ll be able to be as Zen as Kevin when the Grim Reaper comes for my ass. I’ve been practicing the stream of profanity I plan to unleash on that mother fucker for decades now. It would be a shame it I never get to utter the phrase “get your bony little pecker fingers off me you emo, anorexic looking, moldy bat-breath having ghoul“!
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