How Kevin Smith Stayed Calm During A Heart Attack
How Kevin Smith Stayed Calm During A Heart Attack
Kevin Smith tells the story of the heart attack he suffered while filming his Showtime stand-up special, ‘Silent But Deadly,’ and what doctors say helped him survive it.
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0.03 -> i-i can't speak to the rest of the world
3.03 -> but i know there's one very happy person
4.529 -> watching the show tonight right before I
5.97 -> came out my mother texted me she said
7.919 -> where are you tiger
8.639 -> and I said I'm about to be on The
10.29 -> Colbert show we did she's like I thought
11.759 -> that was at night I was like it tapes
12.84 -> during the day and she's like so make
15.15 -> sure they say your name right and it's
19.02 -> very easy Kevin Smith but what happens
22.32 -> in life is a lot of people call me like
23.85 -> Kevin James I get fans coming up to me
25.769 -> being like Kevin James and I'm like it
31.26 -> is kind of huge what a couple this way
33 -> he's the king of queens sang that's how
35.46 -> I had a heart attack I had a heart
36.6 -> attack I was just about to say you're
38.219 -> looking you're looking fit and trim yeah
40.41 -> but that's because you had a heart
42.6 -> attack yeah don't applaud the heart
44.879 -> attack please know you can with a middle
49.26 -> of stand upset I was shooting not in the
51.96 -> middle as we were shooting two shows for
53.579 -> the Showtime special and you know you
55.35 -> shoot two and then combine it into one
57.44 -> is called by the way silent but deadly
59.76 -> yes the head which was the name of the
61.68 -> show before the heart attack but after
63.329 -> the heart attack I was like we got to
65.369 -> keep it now you know so yeah so and I
68.369 -> Kevin can wait was taken by the other
69.96 -> guy so uh yeah so I did the show it was
72.78 -> supposed to be an hour wound up being
73.86 -> two hours and after the show I started
75.81 -> feeling unwell and I chased you know
77.4 -> people out of my dressing room Jason
80.25 -> Mewes his wife Jordan runs our company
82.17 -> and I chased her out and Emily who'd
84.42 -> wait for it does my hair was there as
86.67 -> well and so I was she doesn't believe it
89.28 -> is this part it's easy job so I was like
92.13 -> hey man could you guys get out I don't
93.659 -> feel that well cuz when I'm sick I just
94.89 -> wanna go off into the woods like an
96.659 -> animal and die and so I chased him out
99.299 -> and I felt really bad I laid down the
100.979 -> floor wound up like thrown up I like to
103.29 -> tell the story not because it's like
104.67 -> juicy but because I didn't know what
106.92 -> heart attack symptoms were I was a child
108.78 -> with a 70 so I grew up on Sanford and
110.939 -> Son so Lizbeth that's a heart attack you
113.34 -> know what I had was I had the sweats and
115.799 -> I was breathing heavy and I felt a
117.21 -> little nauseous you get the classic pain
118.74 -> down the arm ER and I didn't have that
120.21 -> man none of the things do they tell you
121.619 -> to look for that's what I like to tell
122.85 -> the story because everyone's looking for
124.02 -> the arm going out none of that happened
126 -> man like essentially I sweated more and
128.25 -> I sweat when I breathed so that didn't
129.869 -> even seem like a symptom and stuff so
131.819 -> then I at one point like
133.53 -> after they kept asking me to cancel the
135.27 -> next show and I was like nah man I just
136.62 -> need to lay down and I felt worse and
138.36 -> finally I was like maybe we should
139.44 -> cancel the show they're like we did and
141.12 -> I was like don't cancel the show man I'm
143.37 -> like are you kidding me like it's gonna
145.02 -> make me look weak they're like you are
146.43 -> weak right now they're like we called an
148.53 -> ambulance
149.16 -> and I was like what and it was just then
150.75 -> that six brawny firemen come into the
153.81 -> room cuz when he called paramedics the
155.31 -> fire department comes six brawny firemen
157.709 -> come in and four of them were young so
159.989 -> they were looking at me like is that
161.13 -> Silent Bob you know and so and I was
164.28 -> sitting there holding up my hands as I
165.63 -> thought that would help I couldn't
166.83 -> breathe so I was like oh hold my hands
168.06 -> up so they're like it's our Bob scoring
169.89 -> a goal like what's going on here and so
171.75 -> so then the paramedics come and they're
173.64 -> cute man Bob's the twins a guy and a
175.35 -> girl and the dude puts a cuff on me and
177.48 -> he's like we're gonna take your blood
178.53 -> pressure and then the lady comes into
180.269 -> this like fishing tackle box got wires
182.19 -> in it she's going I got to put these on
183.69 -> you and I said okay and I was sitting in
185.489 -> the chair like this this is like 32
187.019 -> pounds ago but even now I don't like
189.03 -> sitting up cuz like if this shirt came
190.98 -> off boom boom boom all the rolls come
192.75 -> out so back then I was sitting in the
194.85 -> chair and she's got to put the leads on
196.26 -> it's okay and all of a sudden she Yanks
198.299 -> up my shirt and I was like wow when I
200.07 -> pull it down and she's a guy who get
201.69 -> these Amiens I came in there a lot of
203.19 -> people in this room including my wife
204.51 -> slit by my best friend's wife is saying
206.34 -> right there she's never seen my
207.69 -> breastesses so like please don't and she
210.12 -> goes well I gotta get these wires on you
211.59 -> know I was like well I'll pull the shirt
212.82 -> out and you reach up under it and stuff
215.34 -> you can use my nipples as guideposts and
217.739 -> whatnot and meanwhile the guy next to me
220.079 -> he's like mr. Smith we're gonna take you
221.28 -> to the hospital I said oh come on why
223.14 -> and he goes just to be sure it's so
224.7 -> close he's like you ever been in the
226.29 -> hospital before and not visited people
227.82 -> but I've never been sick or anything so
229.53 -> I was like no to be honest no and he
230.85 -> goes oh you're gonna have such a good
232.079 -> time like he started selling it man I
234.93 -> got excited and then these six brawny
236.7 -> firemen like he told me he's like we're
238.049 -> gonna put you in this chair they got
239.64 -> these chairs and ambulances I've never
241.079 -> been in one this chair turns into a bed
242.88 -> it's like a transformer
243.989 -> so he's like we want you to sit in this
245.67 -> chair and I want to go up because no you
246.84 -> can't get up he's going we got this six
249.209 -> brawny firemen came and picked me up man
251.82 -> and they were like whoo boom put me in
253.59 -> the other chair and it was the most fun
255.6 -> I've had in years because like I'm a big
258.69 -> person nobody tries to pick me up but
260.28 -> when you get picked up it's fun man so
262.349 -> when they got me into chair I was like
264.24 -> one more
265.219 -> they had no time so they brought me to
267.59 -> the hospital and they bring me into the
269.509 -> emergency room the whole time like I'm
270.86 -> chill like the guy said that the medica
273.169 -> paramedic he goes you're being real calm
274.969 -> that's gonna get you through this and
276.529 -> there was a dude behind go this was
278.029 -> gonna save his life and I was like what
279.8 -> does that Park me you know so we got to
282.139 -> the ER and his dude dr. Leighton Heim do
284.36 -> saves my life I hadn't met him until
286.189 -> that moment right now I want to marry
287.719 -> him this guy comes into the room into
289.639 -> the ER and he goes hey how are you and I
291.439 -> was like I can't catch my breath
292.939 -> and he goes that's because you're having
294.05 -> a massive heart attack and that's the
295.4 -> first time anyone told me that and I was
297.62 -> like no this can't be I said doc
299.3 -> honestly I just smoked too much weed
301.099 -> this morning that's what this is did you
303.199 -> really think you were just too high I
304.46 -> honestly thought I was too high smoke
306.08 -> like a bunch of weed that Diggs I was
307.37 -> doing the shows and I spoke to joint
308.689 -> right before the show and I got offstage
310.009 -> Dawson I had a heart attack and I asked
312.349 -> my doctor like after this was all done I
314.15 -> was like I hate to ask this question man
315.71 -> but did I have a heart attack because of
317.389 -> the weed because I smoked a joint right
318.83 -> before the show and he goes no in fact
320.569 -> quite the opposite that we'd saved your
322.939 -> life I was like do tell man like what
325.4 -> what do you mean and so he goes back
331.219 -> that joint
332.449 -> he said you kept calm he's gonna they
334.25 -> told you you were having a massive heart
335.659 -> attack I just told you now they told me
336.979 -> you're going through stuff and you
338.18 -> remain calm the whole time so that joint
340.46 -> saved your life I was like I'm putting
341.719 -> that on a t-shirt
342.62 -> so so I'm in the in the emergency room
345.589 -> he goes we think we were having a
346.939 -> massive heart attack I'm gonna send you
348.169 -> upstairs to the o.r cuz we got to go up
350.81 -> through your groins get into your
352.37 -> femoral artery to look at your heart and
353.87 -> I was so blade lay right away he was
356.149 -> like I can't take any chances and
357.979 -> meanwhile I'm chatting and stuff he said
359.75 -> that during the procedure goes you're
360.919 -> very chatty you know I kept talking to
362.839 -> him so so this dude comes in with a
364.55 -> bucket it's got shaver in it and stuff
366.439 -> and it goes the doctor needs to go to
369.62 -> work we got to take you up two or so to
371.21 -> prep you I need to shave your groins so
373.37 -> you got to take off your jorts because
374.99 -> normally I was wearing shorts and stuff
376.43 -> like that so I took my jorts off I love
378.68 -> my underwear on because like my
380.33 -> number-one fear I was terrified of dying
382.039 -> like everybody like that's my number-one
383.87 -> fear my second fear right behind that
386.21 -> one is people seeing my so like at that
389.149 -> point when you're in the hospital right
391.539 -> exponentially increases the chances of
393.62 -> both of those things happen sure
395.589 -> maybe at the same time exactly so the
398.319 -> guy goes he looks at me he goes you got
399.759 -> to take your underwear off I said I'm
401.289 -> not taking them under well if it goes I
402.609 -> gotta shave your groin I said well what
404.229 -> is the groin to you you know like just
406.989 -> in case he goes it's in here it's in
408.849 -> there I was like alright well I'll pull
410.589 -> the underwear over and you give me like
413.169 -> a landing strip right here and then
415.839 -> you'll go to work and he goes we ain't
417.279 -> got time for this I was like bro they
418.989 -> just told me out a massive heart attack
420.549 -> you make me take my underwear off in
422.079 -> front of all these people I will have a
423.759 -> second heart attack right here so they
426.249 -> take me up to the Oh arm in my underwear
427.869 -> it I get in the dr. Leighton hind goes
429.609 -> why is he in his underwear and the guy
431.709 -> was supposed to shave me he was just
432.879 -> like he won't take him off he's afraid
434.949 -> and I start talking to the doc I was
436.869 -> like look doc I got body shame issues
438.789 -> and my junk is small I guess we ain't
440.499 -> got time for this whew takes my
442.509 -> underwear off me like I'm in a 70s porno
445.869 -> just takes him right off me and stuff
447.699 -> and so I was like you have your will of
450.069 -> me man like he just had it there so I
451.869 -> was wearing a totally it was hot so I
455.199 -> was wearing my Jersey - I was wearing
456.939 -> like a hockey jersey as always but even
459.009 -> though they're pumping me full of drugs
460.149 -> I had the presence of mind to tell them
462.159 -> a lie because I didn't want to lose all
464.049 -> my clothes I was afraid of being naked
465.61 -> and stuff they don't last time I was
466.899 -> fully naked was when I was delivered in
468.819 -> an emergency room so I didn't want to be
470.469 -> naked again so they're trying to egos
472.119 -> take that shirt off my snow
473.799 -> you can't doc this is my lucky hockey
475.809 -> jersey lyin and somebody should have
478.299 -> pointed out you had a heart attack in
479.619 -> this lucky hockey jersey but he didn't
482.199 -> care as I cut it off him and they took
483.789 -> my jersey off and then I was just naked
485.229 -> I was a go at it go up and then my man
487.779 -> what up B which sounds dirtier than I
489.429 -> meant it but then he goes up my groin to
491.709 -> my femoral artery goes you're a hundred
493.089 -> percent block 100 percent of kludgy he's
495.159 -> going we got to go right now he's gonna
496.599 -> do an angioplasty he goes hey but let me
498.609 -> tell you something because you're a
499.389 -> comic book guy I see I like comics this
501.549 -> is why I'm on the table and he goes that
503.649 -> artery that's blocked up the el-ad they
506.079 -> call it the Widowmaker
507.489 -> and I was like why and he goes because
509.169 -> in 80% of the cases of 100% blockage
511.749 -> people die he goes but you're gonna be
514.689 -> in the 20% but I'm cuz I'm good at what
516.55 -> I do and then he disappeared into my
518.439 -> crotch and
520.17 -> and he saved my life man so so so I just
530.28 -> honestly like it was I give him all the
533.01 -> credit but like there was a little fight
534.66 -> in me cuz I was at peace I was actually
536.52 -> like this is the end this is the end I
538.23 -> had a great life I wasn't trying to like
539.94 -> bargain with God or something like that
541.74 -> because I'm sure God would be like you
543.42 -> made Dogma I'll go to hell so like for
545.52 -> me I just kind of laid there and thought
547.65 -> about like what a great life I had and
549.3 -> stuff but the only I'll be honest with
550.86 -> you the only reason that I struggled the
553.44 -> reason that i sat there on the table did
554.88 -> everything he said and willed myself
556.8 -> back to life was because I was like I
558.45 -> gotta be on Colbert in two months man
560.22 -> and so here we are today I'm sorry I
566.49 -> didn't have time to get to a question
567.8 -> but please come again ask yourself that
570.87 -> will silent but deadly premieres May 11
573.96 -> the Showtime that's Kevin
576.53 -> [Applause]
582.47 -> [Music]
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKvjK-z6jI4