Scary experience: Al Pacino almost died from Covid-19

Al Pacino came close to death during the Covid-19 pandemic. The actor revealed this during an interview with the “New York Times”.

Al Pacino was so close to death that he had no pulse after contracting Covid-19 in 2020.

The 84-year-old “Godfather” actor revealed his frightening experience with the disease in an interview with the New York Times, ahead of the release of his upcoming memoir, “Sonny Boy”.

He explained that after feeling unwell, having a fever and becoming dehydrated, he called a nurse to help him.

“So I asked someone to find me a nurse to hydrate me. I was sitting in my house and I disappeared. Like that. I had no pulse,” he said. “Within minutes, they were there, the ambulance in front of my house. I had about six paramedics in this living room, and there were two doctors, and they were wearing outfits that made it look like they were from outer space or something.”

Al Pacino added that it was a “shocking” experience because “everyone was around me saying, ‘He’s back. He’s here’.”

However, despite this near-death experience, the Oscar winner did not see life after death and did not have a metaphysical experience.

“There’s nothing there,” he revealed. “As Hamlet says: “To be or not to be”, The unknown country from which no traveler returns”. It was over. You are no longer here. I had never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: it sounds good to say I died once. What is it like when there is nothing left?”

Although he came close to death, Al Pacino remains philosophical in the face of death. “It’s natural, I suppose, to have a different view of death as you get older. That’s how it is. I didn’t look for it. It comes, like many things come,” adds Al Pacino.

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