“Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad” actor Bob Odenkirk acknowledged that he ignored the advice of a “cranky conservative” doctor and later had a heart attack.
The 60-year-old discussed what happened during a recent episode of the podcast “Don’t Ask Tig.”
“When I was 50, I went in, he was a heart doctor, Cedar-Sinai, and he had signs up all around his office at this point [saying] ‘We do not accept Obamacare,’ and I hated this side of him that I only learned over time,” Odenkirk said.
The actor went on to say how the doctor, who he’d been seeing for 20 years, recommended taking statins to help lower his cholesterol. “And I said, ‘Well, I don’t know. I don’t have heart disease in my family.’ He goes,
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