Zack Sharf Jeff Bridges revealed to People magazine that he was “pretty close to dying” after contracting COVID while on chemotherapy for cancer.
The Oscar winner announced in October 2020 that he was diagnosed with lymphoma. Bridges told People that he had “a 12-by-9-inch tumor” in his body. “It was like a child in my body.
It didn’t hurt or anything,” the actor said.To fight the cancer, Bridges almost immediately started chemotherapy by infusion and then later oral chemotherapy.
The chemo proved successful prior to the COVID diagnosis.“They got a cocktail that worked, and oh man it worked fast,” Bridges said. “That thing just imploded,”Bridges’ health nosedived in January 2021 when he contracted COVID.
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