Al Pacino, a well-known actor, shared horrifying details of his COVID-19 near-death encounter, in which paramedics battled valiantly to resuscitate him after his pulse stopped.
Pacino, 84, recalled to The New York Times Magazine how he was ‘sitting there in my house and I was gone’ after falling unconscious while battling COVID-19 at an unknown time.
‘I didn’t have a pulse,’ he told the magazine. ‘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.’
The Godfather actor had one of his employees get him a nurse after he began feeling ‘unusually not good,’ while he had a fever and was dehydrated when he suddenly lost consciousness.
‘I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there,’ he said. ‘I’d never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: It sounds good to say I died once. What is it when there’s no more?’
Despite the scary experience, the elderly actor is happy to have his children as ‘consolation’ and his extensive body of work to keep his legacy going.
However, the 84-year-old doesn’t seem afraid of death, as he has grown to have a ‘different view of death as you get older.’ Simply brushing it off as ‘it’s just the way it is.’
‘I didn’t ask for it. Just comes, like a lot of things just come,’ he told the magazine, before saying he doesn’t find discussing death ‘morbid.’
As for the movie, he believes his youngest child, who was born in June 2023, should watch first. Jack and Jill with Adam Sandler as it’s ‘funny.’
‘It came at a time in my life that I needed it because it was after I found out I had no more money. My accountant was in prison, and I needed something quickly. So I took this,’ he said.
Pacino’s former financial advisor, Kenneth Starr, pleaded guilty in 2010 to taking $33 million from his clients to fund his lifestyle. His fraud caused the actor to owe $188,000 in back taxes to the IRS.
Starr was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the ordeal.
Although the Oscar winner has a long career and has been in several critically acclaimed films, like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, the actor acknowledges that he enjoyed his work better when he was younger.
Did he have a near-death experience or did he pass out? Who knows, we weren’t there, but let’s face it, the man is 84 years old—every day is a near-death-experience.
In his day he was a superb actor. Hoo-hah!
Perhaps his near-death experience was a dress rehearsal for the full-death experience.
Sadly, to stay relevant, these Hollywood celebrities produce garbage, but then make-believe stories keep the peasants in obedience.
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