Al Pacino said a bad case of Covid-19 almost cost him his life in 2020. Four years ago, amid the unprecedented pandemic , the 84-year-old Hollywood star had a near-death experience when he contracted the infectious disease. In conversation with The New York Times , Pacino detailed the time his doctors weren’t sure if he would make it in tandem with the topic of aging.
The Scarface lead called aging “absurd” and “crazy,” arguing he didn’t know what it really was. “I sometimes think, why can’t I find some steroids that won’t kill me? I took some when I had bad Covid,” he told the outlet in the interview published on October 5. Reflecting on the harrowing experience, Pacino remembered being unable to find his pulse at one point.
He noted: “They said my pulse was gone. It was so — you’re here, you’re not. I thought: ‘Wow, you don’t even have your memories.
You have nothing. Strange porridge.’” The on-screen legend knew he was “unusually not good” when he took his temperature and saw his fever spike and became severely dehydrated.
In fact, his dehydration was so bad, he needed to hire a nurse to assist him. “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,” he explained. “In a matter of minutes they were there — the ambulance in front of my house.
” Pacino continued: “I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and.
