Sean Hayes Drove Himself to the ER, 'Got Paddled' Twice in One Night for a Heart Issue

Mar. 15, 2025

Sean Hayes speaks in Los Angeles in 2024.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/Getty

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Sean Hayeswent to the emergency room twice in one night to get “paddled” — and hid it from his husband.

The revelation came during theNov. 18 episodeof theSmartLesspodcastHayes co-hosts withWill ArnettandJason Bateman, when guestHugh Granttalked about struggling with the after-effects of a long transatlantic flight.

“It’s brutal,” Grant, 64, said. “I can’t do it anymore. I think that’s another age thing … I woke up … and it felt like my heart is made of Play-Doh.”

“Sean’s got a doctor for you,” Bateman, 55, said.

“Hugh, you should know this, that Sean, two [or] three nights ago, woke up in the middle of the night with a heart issue,” Arnett, 54, said, adding that Hayes didn’t wake up his husband,Scott Icenogle.

Scott Icenogle and Sean Hayes.Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Arnett says Hayes “drove himself to Cedars-Sinai. They brought the paddles out, they put him under, they paddled them, he drove home.”

But just an hour later, Arnett said Hayes “woke up to use the bathroom again and drove himself back to Cedars and got paddled again.”

Hayes, 54, has previously said that he has atrial fibrillation, which theCleveland Clinicexplains is “irregular heart rhythm that begins in your heart’s upper chambers (atria)” and can cause symptoms like fatigue, heart palpitations, trouble breathing and dizziness.

He joked during a 2021 appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!that when he goes to the emergency room, “I’m like Norm fromCheers… because I’m in there all the time.”

He said the paddles “zap you back into regular rhythm” — and after getting paddled twice in one night, Hayes said that he went “to dinner that night.”

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“Well, no, you are,” Grant chimed in.

“And it’s working,” Hayes said, as Grant confirmed, “I feel humiliated.”

But as a consolation prize, Hayes said, “By God, Hugh, you look f—ing great.”

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