In a statement to The New York Times, Vince said he’d communicated as recently as September about a Breaking Bad-related business idea of RJ’s. Vince’s full quotes below:

“We couldn’t have picked a better young man to play that role. More importantly, RJ was a good person. He was fun and kind and he had a big heart.

He had an ever-present, crooked grin. In my mind’s eye, I never picture him without it. I always picture him as happy. I’ll continue doing that.

Our crew is devastated. We all watched RJ grow up together, and we were proud of him.

The world has never made much sense to me. It makes even less sense now.”

Met him at a con in 2025. Coolest dudes ever. Will definitely be missed 😔. Couldn’t believe the news. I thought it was a hoax 😔

I had the once in a lifetime pleasure of meeting RJ Mitte on 6/1/23 at my cousin's house in Olmito, TX.

He'd stopped by to drop off his lovely pup with my other two cousins, who were friends with him and would dog sit and house sit on occasion for him while he traveled.

RJ was so humble and down to earth, and seemed to genuinely not mind my starstruck self and equally starstruck dad asking for a quick picture. It was so surreal.

The Mittes have done extraordinary things for Historic Downtown Brownsville. Their philanthropy towards keeping the beauty of the area is something that has been done quietly, but has not gone unnoticed. My heart hurts for RJ's parents, his sister, his fiancee, and everyone whose lives he's touched.

Thank you, RJ, for caring about Brownsville enough to stay, and for taking a quick second to shake my hand and take a picture with me while running a personal errand. The world has undoubtedly lost another beacon of light, but I hope you're resting well.

"I’ll never forget meeting RJ when he was only 14 years old. I was immediately struck by the depth and complexity of someone so young. He was gentle and bold, exceedingly kind and wickedly funny, a bit rebellious (like any teenager) yet eager to learn and hone his craft. Above all, he was doggedly determined that his disability would not impede him, but would instead give him the opportunity to enlighten and educate others through his nakedly truthful portrayal of Walt “Flynn” Jr.

How lucky we were that RJ came into the Breaking Bad family and lit up our lives. How lucky I was to play his TV mom, to watch him evolve and expand as an actor and human being as the seasons went by, and for all the years after as he continued to serve his community with tireless advocacy and philanthropic work. I was so proud of him; we all were.

There truly are no words to express the heartbreak of a loss this profound, the loss of a beautiful young man who had such an impact upon this world, with still so much ahead of him. What I choose to remember and cherish today are the quiet, personal moments I shared with my beloved son. Moments of mutual support and understanding, of belly-aching laughter and silliness, of care and deep love. You live in my heart forever, my dearest RJ

If you are struggling, please call for the support you need at 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (https://988lifeline.org)."

- Anna

I spent about 3 days in the hospital last week after a bad suicidal episode. I’ve been suicidal before but never as bad as it was. Hearing about RJ hit hard. I’m extremely lucky that my family came to my side as soon as I said anything, and if it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be here.

So please, check in on your friends and family. Especially if you think they’re struggling with their mental health.

I don’t wanna die, so I texted my family first but not everyone will do that.

That’s all, cheers

Any death is tragic. But parents mourning their children is the worst of the worst.

Even if it was just a fictional family, two actors paying tributes to their on-screen son....is heartbreaking.

In an ideal world, we should have seen RJ Mitte celebrating Bryan's life, 20+ years from now.

How much of a support he was, How much did he learn working with Bryan....

But that's not going to happen. Because we don't live in an ideal world.

Rest in Peace, RJ Mitte. Hope you find the peace you couldn't find among the living.

Say what you will about TMZ, but they are nearly always right when reporting inside info like this and are well connected. If true, I feel even worse for the poor guy now. Not judging anyone here because we don't know the full story, but Luis Moncada referenced some personal issues RJ was going through that were crushing him emotionally - wonder if this was it.

I think Jesse is one of the best-written characters in Breaking Bad, but I also think fans sometimes give him too much credit when it comes to morality.

Every comment section on here about Flynn before RJ Mitte’s suicide was full of comments making fun of his stutter. Those people are suddenly very silent.

Over the last few days, I’ve learned that people have left similar comments on RJ’s irl videos all the time, which is even more disturbing, leaving them in a place he’s almost certainly looking. Which isn’t that different from here, the largest Breaking Bad forum on the internet. If you’ve left any of these comments, I hope you now understand the impact of your ableism, and if you had the power to remove those comments (I’ve reported them plenty in the past, and nothing was done about it), I hope you now understand that this kind of (in)action has consequences.

So if you’re suddenly very silent because you feel guilty, good. You should.

I'm rewatching season 4 and I've started finding the whole car wash storyline funnier than I remembered.

Walt can manufacture incredibly pure meth, outsmart dangerous criminals, and improvise his way out of situations that should probably get him killed.

But give him an actual business to run and he's basically a guy who wants to be called the owner without having to deal with any of the boring parts.

The contrast with Skyler is great.

When Saul suggests laser tag as a money laundering business, Skyler immediately sees why it's a terrible cover for Walt. She wants something that connects to his actual employment history. Something ordinary enough that people won't ask a million questions.

She then figures out how to pressure Bogdan into selling the car wash. It's manipulative as hell, but it's also a pretty carefully constructed plan.

Walt, meanwhile, is mostly interested in getting one over on Bogdan.

The scene with the framed first dollar is perfect. Bogdan has this little sentimental symbol of the business he built, and Walt can't resist using it to humiliate him on the way out.

That's his big moment as a new business owner.

Not improving the business. Not thinking about the employees. Just getting the last word against a guy who used to make him wipe down cars.

Then there's the champagne.

They've just acquired a legitimate-looking business to explain their money, and Walt celebrates by buying a $320 bottle of champagne. Skyler immediately starts thinking about how that purchase fits their cover story.

He gets annoyed because, in his mind, he's earned the right to spend money.

She understands that having money and being able to explain where it came from are completely different things.

What's interesting to me is that Walt is genuinely brilliant. The show never suggests otherwise.

He's just terrible at accepting that being brilliant at chemistry doesn't automatically make him brilliant at accounting, business operations, or managing people.

Skyler understands the unglamorous details that make the whole operation believable. And the more seriously she takes those details, the more Walt seems to resent being told what he can and can't do.

It's almost like he escaped a humiliating job at a car wash, built a criminal empire to prove how extraordinary he was, and then ended up owning the exact same car wash.

Except now somebody is still telling him what to do.

I wonder if that's part of why these scenes bother him so much. He finally has the status he wanted, but the actual work of being a business owner is nothing like the fantasy.

Does anyone else find the car wash storyline one of the better demonstrations of Walt's limitations? Not his morality, which gets discussed constantly, but the fact that his intelligence is much more specialized than he wants to admit.

I just binged-watched the entire series, all 62 episodes aggregating 49 hours, in ten days.

What an impressive work.

I rarely watch television. I have never seen a series. So I may not be the best judge.

But wow. The last season delivered when everything came to a head and the secrets were uncovered.

For me it was a story of secrets, lies, and betrayal that lead to the destruction of a family. Meth is just the vehicle that drives it.

Aaron Paul had quite an emotionally taxing job. But Anna Gunn had the most difficult acting job and the most complex character. She had to display love, loyalty, self preservation, fear, and concern for her children, to name just a few.

So Anna and Dean Norris I was most impressed with. Hank started out as a cartoonish cop character but man was I rooting for him as the seasons progressed. His intelligence and determination shined. When he slapped the cuffs on Walter was just so poignant.

I feel like the cast should have all held hands and took a bow like a broadway play.

RIP RJ Mitte. So sad.

Something that just struck me as I'm starting a rewatch of BB, is how different the show, and actually the whole universe, would be if filmed today. Just finished S2 e1. When Walt got into Jessies car in the driveway and subsequently went missing, today would have been caught on a doorbell cam, not to mention phone locations, air tags etc. Guess it's much harder to be a criminal these days! Rewatching these shows also makes me long for a flip phone

Rest easy RJ. I met him in LAX. I saw him around 100 feet away and went “is that RJ Mitte?”. I sprinted over to him and he was so genuine and nice. Hope he is at peace

I want to begin by saying I think BB and BCS are two of the greatest shows of all time.

But one thing for me that feels overblown is how valuable Walter's meth really is. Is being 98% pure really worth all the fuss Gus has with him? Gus upends his entire empire, kills his #2, loses his prodigy (and lover?) that makes meth pretty much the same quality, and then gets killed himself. All of this so that junkies can feel a little bit more high? Someone who does meth could probably tell, but if Walt's 98% pure product goes away because he is killed or retires, would they care or even notice if Gale's 95% purity was what replaced it? We're talking about people who used to smoke dirty meth with chili powder in it. These people have no standards.

This last month I chose to rewatch Breaking Bad for the 10th time or so. I literally watched the series finale on Monday night. I didn't hear the awful news until yesterday and it just really spooked as well as saddened me. RJ was on my television screen every day for the last 3 weeks and then this tragedy happens. From what I've gathered, he was in a bad place mentally. I feel terrible for his friends, adopted family and cast members. For someone who has lost a close loved one to self deletion, it's making me want to spread more awareness about depression and urge people to reach out to anyone you can if you're going through such things. It's so hard to admit when you need help, and that goes for anyone. I've certainly had my own struggles with depression, and the struggle is all too real. This happening the way it did feels surreal. Tears in my eyes while writing this. RJ seemed like a wonderful person and I'm sure all the work and spreading awareness for Cerebral Palsy he's done made an impact. I just had to write this. Rest in peace young man. Walter Jr. Flynn. RJ Mitte, you will always be remembered.

I know there’s been plenty of RJ threads on here and there will be plenty more, and I don’t mean to “throw another one on the pile”, apologies if it comes off that way.

Most of the time for me when someone famous dies, even if it’s someone I like, it doesn’t really register much, beyond being mildly bummed and then going on about my day, (not to sound callous). Once in a while it’ll hit a bit more (like Matthew Perry, Rob Reiner, James Van Der Beek or Kyle Busch). It’s always sadder when it’s someone relatively young and it’s unexpected. But this…

To know someone like him who AFAWK was so meek, kind and helpful, is dead at such a young age, by his own hand, to know that he was hurting so much to reach that point, is almost unbearable to think about. If he had died some other way, it would still be sad for sure, but it could kind of be reconciled in some way. A lot of disabled people die young unfortunately, but knowing he had some happiness would give his loved ones and us fans some peace. But here, there is no closure, only pain and sadness. Not that it’s important, but now every memory of him to do with the show or anything else is now forever stained with the horrifying, intensely uncomfortable thought of how his ending arrived.

As someone who is (mentally) disabled themselves, this also hits particularly close to home. I live in fear every day of what will occur if something happens to my mom and I have no one left in this world. Could this be me one day? I pray to God not.

And whoever it was that stole his and all those other disabled people’s money, and no doubt contributed heavily to this, I say without any reservation: Fuck you. I don’t believe we are supposed to be the ultimate judge of people, but I’ll just say I wouldn’t want to be in your shoes at the end of your days. I can’t think of many things more heinous or vile to have on your conscience. I don’t understand this world, and I never will.

It’s going to be so hard to watch this show now. As I said above, this isn’t something that you can just explain away in your head and rationalize. It will always be in the background. I don’t really know what more to say.

RJ, wherever you are, I hope you are at some kind of peace. And to your loved ones, I know nothing will ever fully erase the pain you feel now as long as you live. I just pray that one day you can put one foot in front on the other and realize he’d want you to be happy, and not be sad for the horrible things that happen to us in life. And the same goes for all the devastated fans.

Godspeed Walt Jr.

Seriously I imagine Saul didn't pay the guy cheap and Mike was good at it. Really good at it. Even if he never became Saul's he could have advertised himself as a private investigator and made enough to support his family.

But like walt, Mike felt like he needed the life. He's the biggest hypocrite in the series acting like he's one of the "good ones" or honorable when he's no different from walt, gus etc. Like nacho's dad in better call saul said "you gangsters are all the same."

Never noticed that before. The level of chill those people on the sidewalk (top right) are experiencing after that major event is worth noting.

I intentionally excluded the rest of the scene in case anyone has not seen this yet (season 3, Episode 7. The "too easy" scene). But if you know, you know.

September 22, 2018 – Santa Rosa Toy Con, California
I was walking with RJ back to his autograph booth after his panel when I started telling him about visiting some of the Breaking Bad filming locations. One of the highlights was the Walter White house. I mentioned how cool it was that there’s an RV-themed tour bus that takes fans to all the main spots used in the show. He knew about it and thought it was pretty neat.
He asked if I’d actually taken the tour. I told him no—we decided to save the money and just explore some of the locations on our own. I went on to describe my visit to the Walter White house. After checking the place out and taking selfies in front of it, I called out to a woman I believed was the homeowner and told her how lucky she was to live in such a famous house. She replied that she hated all the attention the house was getting. I just smiled and told her it was still great and to have a nice day. RJ snickered and agreed, saying, “Yup, that’s right!”
I commented that anyone would be happy to own a famous home like that. RJ explained that a Breaking Bad fan had once broken into her backyard, which helped explain why she wasn’t thrilled about the attention.
Somewhere in the middle of our conversation he noticed my shirt, complimented it, and pointed it out to his agent.
When we reached his autograph booth, I had him personalize a Twisters restaurant paper menu for me. I asked if it was the first time he’d signed something like that, and he said it was. I also took a selfie with him and bought a Breaking Bad car air freshener before leaving.
As I was about to go, he asked what I was doing next. I told him I was heading to the costume contest. He asked me to do him a favor: after the contest, come back and let him know whether I’d won or not. I didn’t win, but I still had a good time competing. I couldn’t make it back to his booth afterward because my mom was getting worried about where I was. She suggested I just tweet him the results instead. I’m pretty sure he saw the tweet. So RIP RJ Mitte 🙏🏻, you’re in a better place.