“Everybody thought I was dead,” actor says of near-death experience in interviews ahead of new memoir Sonny Boy Al Pacino Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images has revealed that he nearly died of Covid-19 four years ago in a pair of new interviews ahead of the legendary actor’s upcoming memoir. Speaking to both the and , Pacino said that during his coronavirus bout in 2020, before vaccines were available, he suffered a medical emergency and at one point “didn’t have a pulse.” “I thought I experienced death.
I might not have. I don’t think I have, really. I know I made it,” Pacino told .
“I don’t think I died. Everybody thought I was dead. How could I be dead? If I was dead, I fainted.
And when I opened my eyes, there were six paramedics in my living room. There was an ambulance outside the door, and two of my doctors in those space suits [like] on Mars. I looked around and I thought, ‘What happened to me?’” Pacino credited his “great assistant Michael Quinn” with acting quickly and calling the paramedics.
“He got the people coming, because the nurse that was taking care of me said, ‘I don’t feel a pulse on this guy,’” he said. Pacino writes about his near-death experience at length in his upcoming memoir . When asked by the if he experienced anything “metaphysical” during his brush with death, Pacino said, “There’s nothing there.
” “As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no travel.
