Al Pacino is spending an increasing amount of time pondering his own mortality following the serious health scare he endured as a result of contracting COVID-19.
That’s at least according to RadarOnline, who claim that the legendary actor has switched focus of late and appears to be ‘haunted’ by the prospect of death.
The 84-year-old released a memoir titled Sonny Boy on October 8, using its pages to open up on on his previous struggles with alcoholism, as well as detailing the terrifying experience of almost dying.
A source is said to have told RadarOnline: “Al is on his last legs, and he knows it. All he can talk about these days is his mortality and his past.
“Bringing out his memoir has really brought it all poignantly to the front of his mind, and after he was nearly killed by Covid it’s really all he can think about.”
They concluded: “But it’s a real credit to him he is still working — and he intends to until he drops.”
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Pacino opened up about nearly dying from Covid back in 2020. He said he was at home and began to feel “unusually not good,” experiencing dehydration and a fever.
After calling for a nurse, Pacino says he suddenly lost vital signs.
“I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that. I didn’t have a pulse,” he said.
Pacino said that minutes later he woke up, surrounded by doctors and paramedics in protective gear (“like they were from outer space or something,” Pacino says).
“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,’” Pacino recalled to the Times.
“Everybody thought I was dead,” he told People Magazine. “The nurse that was taking care of me said, ‘I don’t feel a pulse on this guy.’”
“I thought I experienced death. I might not have. I don’t think I have, really. I know I made it.”
Set to turn 85 next year, the Scarface star also admitted recently that it’s difficult for him to get to grips with his age.
“When I have my hair now and I go out and someone takes a picture of me, all you see is, like, a white hydrant!” the actor told CBS.
“A white fire hydrant! I don’t feel I’m gray yet. I don’t want to be gray. I’m that guy in the book cover.”
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