“So my dad comes and picks me up and it’s like…” Kutcher recalled. “We’re going to your brother’s now and I don’t feel anything, it’s alright,” said the actor, overcome with emotion. The big shock followed in the hospital when Michael suffered a cardiac arrest. The line on the EKG machine, which represents the heart’s activity, suddenly became flat.
“Then they grabbed me and took me outside, and I was like, ‘What the hell is going on here?'” Kutcher said, who at this point in the interview takes his brother’s hands while Michael wipes the tears from his eyes.
After the incident, Kutcher’s parents agreed to give his brother a heart pump to add a few days to his life. Miraculously, Michael received a heart transplant shortly after, according to his website.