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Soap Star's Final Hours Revealed: He Turned Down the Hospital

A police report shows the "Days of Our Lives" actor waved off a trip to the ER before his fatal cardiac arrest.

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The Weekly Observer

OCT 16, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
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New details have emerged about the final hours of "Days of Our Lives" actor Robert Kelker-Kelly, who died October 3 at age 62. According to a police report obtained by Page Six, the actor began complaining of pain in his chest, neck and arm after his wife picked him up from the airport, but declined a hospital trip, saying he wanted to go home and lie down instead.

He asked for an aspirin from the kitchen and never got up again. His wife found him unresponsive and performed CPR until paramedics arrived, but he could not be revived. Authorities say there was nothing suspicious about the death, which they are treating as a medical event.

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