Following his lengthy stint playing loveable dad Danny Tanner on the sitcom “Full House,” Bob Saget was a successful stand-up comedian telling raunchy jokes. His book about the transition, “Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian,” Saget shared a bit of family history that could provide insight into his death. At the time of this publication, a popular theory is that he suffered a stroke or heart attack that ultimately led to his death. The book shares that three of Saget’s uncles died of heart attacks between the ages of 37 and 41, per TMZ. The first uncle to die was Saget’s Uncle Ozzie, who suffered a heart attack at 40 while chasing some children down the street when Saget was just eight. A year later, his Uncle Manny, too, died of a double heart attack. And finally, when he was 15, Saget lost his Uncle Sammy, who was 37 when he died of a heart attack while playing tennis.
Along with his uncles, Saget’s own father suffered two heart attacks in his life. Until the results of Saget’s autopsy reveal his own cause of death, the heart attack theory remains just that — a theory. But given that Saget was 65 at the time of his passing, a family history of heart troubles may shed light on what caused it.
