Al Pacino Very Nearly Died Of COVID After His 'Pulse Was Gone' & Paramedics Rushed To Save Him! OMG!

Al Pacino very nearly died of COVID-19 back at the height of the pandemic in early 2020!

The legendary actor-slash-filmmaker spoke to the New York Times about it on their The Interview podcast over the weekend. And during that chat, the now-84-year-old revealed that he came much closer to death during the most difficult and extremely uncertain times of the early pandemic than anybody had previously realized! Whoa!!

Reflecting on the events that led up to the near-death experience which took place more than four years ago now, the elderly new father explained how he actually lost his pulse at one point while he was struggling with the worst parts of the disease:

“My pulse was gone. It was so — you’re here, you’re not. I thought: Wow, you don’t even have your memories. You have nothing. Strange porridge.”

OMG!!

The Godfather star went on to note how he felt “unusually not good” with a fever and major dehydration at the time. Then, things got so bad that a nurse was called in to help hydrate him. And at one point, things rapidly took a turn for the worst. He lost his pulse just “like that” as he sat trying to fight the sickness:

“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. I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that. I didn’t have a pulse.”

Thankfully, with the nurse and other members of his team on hand, they called in paramedics who rushed up immediately to render aid. It was then that the Serpico star recalled how EMTs along with doctors who “looked like they were from outer space” with COVID containment suits on came in to perform life-saving activities upon him:

“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.'”

Wild!

Thankfully, Pacino lived to tell the tale to that news outlet. He is still here today — and here to be a father in his eighties, no less! But regardless, the actor isn’t trying to take away too many “metaphysical ripples” from the incident, as he noted. Rather than getting all esoteric over the near-death experience, he reflected like this on what he went through:

“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 traveler returns.’ And he says two words: ‘no more.’ It was no more. You’re gone. 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?”

Seems very intense. And also like it would have a much more lasting impact on a person than that! But maybe that’s just us!!

Pacino is making the rounds to promote his upcoming memoir Sonny Boy, by the way — hence this discussion with the NYT. That book is slated to hit the shelves next Tuesday. What do U make of this, y’all?? Sound OFF with your thoughts and reactions in the comments (below)…

[Image via WENN/Avalon]