Four years later, Al Pacino opens up about his near-death experience with COVID-19.
Al Pacino is still going big
The Academy Award winner revealed his "pulse was gone" after he had a bad reaction to steroids in 2020 while being treated for a life-threatening coronavirus infection.
"It was like — you're here, you're not," he told The New York Times. "I thought, Wow, you don't even have your memories. You don't have anything. Strange, old man."
Pacino said: "What happened was I wasn't feeling well — unusually unwell. Then I got a fever and I got dehydrated and everything. So I had somebody get a nurse to hydrate me. I was sitting there in my house and I was gone. Just like that. I had no pulse. Within minutes they were there — the ambulance outside 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 came from outer space or something. It was kind of shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everybody was around me and they were like, 'He's back. He's here.'"
