Al Pacino is opening up about a near-death experience in a new interview with The New York Times published over the weekend to support his upcoming autobiography, Sonny Boy .
The actor revealed that COVID-19 nearly killed him very early on in the pandemic while he was discussing the prospect of getting older with the publication's David Marchese .
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The 84-year-old, who welcomed his youngest child, a son named Roman , with his girlfriend, Noor Alfallah , last year, pondered whether he considered aging to be "comfortable or uncomfortable."
The actor admitted he "[doesn't] know what the hell aging is" before calling it "absurd and crazy."
He then confessed, "I sometimes think, Why can’t I find some steroids that won’t kill me? " The father of four took steroids when he "had bad COVID" in 2020 before vaccines were readily available to the public. He lost many of his memories from the time, calling the blank period "strange porridge" as he recalled, "They said my pulse was gone."
"It was so—you’re here, you’re not," he added. It's not entirely clear if he had a poor reaction to the steroids while sickened with the coronavirus or the virus itself caused his heart to stop.
He recounted feeling "unusually not good" when he had a nurse come to his home to help with his fever and dehydration.
"I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that," he revealed. "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.'"
In another interview with People , he credited his "great assistant Michael Quinn " for his fast action in calling 911 after "the nurse that was taking care of [him] said, 'I don't feel a pulse on this guy.'"
Sonny Boy hits shelves on Oct. 15.
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