Los Angeles: Four years after the dreaded COVID-19 ravaged lives around the world, it has been revealed that Hollywood superstar Al Pacino (84) had no pulse when he contracted the disease.
The legendary actor known for popular films like ‘Scarface’, ‘The Godfather’, and ‘House of Gucci’ spoke about his upcoming memoir, Sonny Boy. The actor recalled how he technically died while ill with COVID-19 during the pandemic, which he writes about in the book.
Revealing that he “didn’t have a pulse” at one point during his health emergency, the actor told People Magazine, “I thought I experienced death. I might not have. I don’t think I have, really. I know I made it”.
“I don’t think I died. Everybody thought I was dead. How could I be dead? If I was dead, I fainted”, he continued. “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 were in those space suits (like) on Mars. I looked around and thought, ‘What happened to me?”
“So I couldn’t have died because how did all those people gather together, the ambulance in front of my house?” he added.
‘The Godfather’ star said that his “great assistant Michael Quinn” immediately contacted the paramedics when he noticed something was wrong. “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 shared.
The ‘House of Gucci’ star later recalled reflecting on his serious bout of COVID-19 and thinking, “It was gone, as Shakespeare in Hamlet says, ‘No more. To be, or not to be.’ And then he says, ‘No more’. And it’s no more. Well, it’s not. I don’t know. Who knows?”
Despite the harrowing experience, when asked if his health scare changed the way he now lives his life, he said, “Not at all”.
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