Aaron Paul Says He Can 'Confidently Say' He's Been Called Bitch 'More Times than Anyone in the World' Thanks to Breaking Bad

More than a decade after Breaking Bad ended, Aaron Paul still can’t escape his character’s signature epithet.

Paul was a guest on the Tuesday, March 18, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where the host reminded him that during a 2018 appearance on the show, the Ash star said that Breaking Bad fans continued to call him “bitch” when they spotted him.  

Paul’s character, Jesse Pinkman, used the off-color term constantly on the Emmy-winning series.

According to Paul, 45, not much has changed in the past seven years.

“It’s still very much a problem,” he told Kimmel on Tuesday night’s show. “It’s so wild, because the show has been done for so long. But a lot of people are being introduced to it now. And I can confidently say I’ve been called ‘bitch’ more than anyone in the world. It’s true.”

Back in 2018, Paul and wife Lauren Parsekian had recently welcomed their daughter, Story, and Kimmel jokingly implored fans not to curse at the actor if they saw him with his child.

The host’s plea apparently fell upon deaf ears, however. On Tuesday night, Paul said that 7-year-old Story and his 2-year-old son Ryden do occasionally hear fans calling him “bitch.”

“They have no idea what the word means,” Paul said. “But I feel like my character kinda made it more of, like, a term of endearment a little bit.”

Paul also said that Breaking Bad costar Bryan Cranston is his son’s godfather and remains close with his family.

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“My kiddos call him Monkey Man,” he said, explaining that the nickname is a reference to Cranston’s 2020 Disney film The One and Only Ivan. “My son, I don’t think he even knows his name is Bryan.”

In 2023, Cranston told British GQ that being a godfather is "truly answering a call."

“It is truly allowing me to go through the experience of what it feels like to be a grandfather," the actor shared. "My jaws hurt from [smiling]. I love to hold him and play with him.”