Los Angeles, Veteran actor Al Pacino thought he was unconscious after becoming ill with COVID-19 during the pandemic in 2020.
The 84-year-old star of films including “The Godfather” trilogy, “Scarface” and “Heat” said he was told by a nurse at one point that he had no pulse.
Pacino, who is awaiting his upcoming memoir “Sonny Boy,” said his “great assistant” Michael Quinn took immediate action and contacted paramedics.
“She called people, because the nurse who was taking care of me said, ‘I can’t feel this guy’s pulse.’
“So I couldn’t have died, because of how all those people gathered together, the ambulance in front of my house. I thought I had experienced death. I couldn’t possibly have died. I don’t think I actually died.” I know I made it,” he told People magazine in an interview.
The multiple award winner said that while everyone thought he was dead, he didn’t think he actually died.
“How could I die? If I had died, I would have passed out. And when I opened my eyes, there were six paramedics in my living room. There was an ambulance outside the door, and two of my doctors on Mars. Were in space suits…I looked around and I thought, ‘What happened to me?'” Pacino said.
“It was gone. As Shakespeare says in Hamlet, ‘No more. To be or not to be.’ And then he says, ‘And no’ and it’s not, I don’t know, who knows?” He added.
Asked whether his health scare has now changed the way he lives his life, Pacino said: “Absolutely not.”
The actor will next be seen in Johnny Depp’s directorial venture “Modi – Three Days on the Wing of Madness”, which will release on December 5.
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