Al Pacino Details COVID Near-Death Experience: “My Pulse Was Gone”
deadline.comFour years later, Al Pacino is opening up about his near-death experience with COVID-19. The Academy Award winner revealed his “pulse was gone” after he had a bad reaction to steroids while being treated for a life-threatening Coronavirus infection back in 2020. “It was so — you’re here, you’re not,” he told The New York Times. “I thought: Wow, you don’t even have your memories.
You have nothing. Strange porridge.” Pacino recounted, “What happened was, I felt not good — unusually not good. Then I had a fever, and I was getting dehydrated and all that.
So I got someone to get me a nurse to hydrate me. I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that. I didn’t have a pulse.
In a matter of minutes they were there — the ambulance in front of my house. I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had these outfits on that looked like they were from outer space or something.
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