‘Silent Bob’ has heart attack after show: director Kevin Smith tweets from hospital bed

CULT film director Kevin Smith has tweeted from his hospital bed, revealing how he almost died after suffering “a massive heart attack”.

DIRECTOR Kevin Smith has revealed that he almost died today after suffering “a massive heart attack”.

Just hours earlier Smith was performing a stand-up comedy special in California.

But, as the director revealed on Twitter, he suffered “a massive heart attack” before the his second show of the night.

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! pic.twitter.com/M5gSnW9E5h

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) February 26, 2018

With his trademark humour, the Mallrats director tweeted a selfie from his hospital bed complete with tubes and a shocked expression.

Smith said the doctor who saved him told him if he had not cancelled his second show to go to the hospital, he would have died.

Kevin Smith gained a huge cult following in the mid-90s.

The filmmaker, actor, comic book writer and author gained a huge cult following in the mid-90s with his low-budget film Clerks.

Smith wrote, directed and starred as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob.

Kevin Smith as Silent Bob with Alanis Morissette in Dogma.

His subsequent films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back all feature in his home state of New Jersey.

He married actress and broadcaster Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, 46, in 1999 and the pair have a 17-year-old daughter named Harley Quinn.

Writer and director Kevin Smith with wife Jennifer at the premiere of Clerks II in Sydney.

In 2015, Smith revealed he lost 60 kilos by cutting out sugar. He said he was determined to lose weight after he was asked to leave a flight from Oakland to Burbank due to fears he could not fit into his seat and was a “safety risk”.

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