Al Pacino reveals he almost died in 2020: “I didn’t have a pulse”

"I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there" Al Pacino has revealed that he nearly died of COVID-19 in 2020, even temporarily losing a pulse. The legendary actor announced details of his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir Sonny Boy back in March , which is set for release on Tuesday (October 8).

Visit here to pre-order the memoir . In an interview with the New York Times ahead of the book’s release, Pacino shared that he had a near-death experience during the pandemic. “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,” he told the publication. “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. It was kind of shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everybody was around me, and they said: ‘He’s back.

He’s here.'” Al Pacino. CREDIT: Emma McIntyre/WireImage Pacino was then asked if the experience had any “metaphysical ripples” on him, to which he responded: “It actually did.

I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there. “As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no t.