Viral YouTube Chef Auntie Fee On Life Support After Heart Attack

Viral YouTube cooking sensation Felicia O’Dell, who goes by Auntie Fee, is on life support after suffering from a massive heart attack earlier this week. The 59-year-old was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center on Tuesday, TMZ reports, and is in critical condition.

“Y’all. Hang in there. I’m doing the best I can,” O’Dell wrote in a foreboding Facebook post last Sunday. “Not feeling too well, hope I feel better tomorrow. Love ya’ll.”

Charismatic and lovable even as she cursed like a sailor, O’Dell rose to renown on YouTube with a cooking tutorial called Auntie Fee’s Sweet Treats For The Kids (below) in which she deep fries crescent rolls filled with butter, sugar, cinnamon, and raisins. It now counts more than 4.5 million views. When O’Dell’s son, who filmed her videos, asks her for the name of the dish she’s making, she retorts, “G-ddamnit, I ain’t got no motherf-ckin’ name for it yet, motherf-cker. Sh-t!”

Subsequent clips for money-saving recipes for baked chicken (seasoned in the chicken sink), ‘dumb good’ macaroni and cheese (sponsored by the movie Dumb And Dumber To), and egg rolls also racked up a million views apiece.

In addition to her massive social following, which includes 530,000 YouTube subscribers and 770,000 Facebook fans, O’Dell also made appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Steve Harvey, MTV 2, and the feature film Barbershop 3, according to People. She also vends her own range of cookware, apparel, and spices.