'Clerks' Director Kevin Smith Has 'Massive' Heart Attack

Chasing Amy director Kevin Smith reportedly suffered a major heart attack on Sunday night but is currently recovering in the hospital. Smith sent out a tweet on Monday morning to assure fans that he was still alive, but he also stressed the severity of the incident and his condition. Smith has lost a significant amount of weight in the last few years in an attempt to improve his health.

Via Page Six.

Director Kevin Smith is on the mend following a massive heart attack on Sunday night.

“After the first show this evening, I had a massive heart attack,” Smith, 47, tweeted alongside a selfie from the hospital early Monday morning. “The doctor who saved my life told me I had 100 percent 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!”

The “Clerks” auteur was scheduled to perform two standup shows in Glendale, Calif., on Sunday night, which he promoted on his Facebook account just hours before his hospitalization.

Smith has otherwise been healthier than ever in the last few years. After being booted from a Southwest Airlines flight in 2010 due to his size, the “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” star dropped a whopping 85 pounds in 2015.

The Red Bank, New Jersey, native dropped the pounds with a combination of dieting (especially limiting his intake of sugary drinks) and juicing, though he admitted that aside from walking daily, he’s still not an “exercise guy.”

“Since I was a kid, it was always, ‘eat what you want,'” he told Men’s Health in 2015. “I was the third child, so by the time my parents got to me, man, they were f—king tired, so they were never, like, ‘Eat your vegetables, Kevin.’”

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