Al Pacino he has been particularly revealing in recent interviews. More specifically, the 84-year-old actor mentioned that he almost died due to coronavirus, stressing that he had no pulse for several minutes.

In interviews with the New York Times and People magazine published over the weekend of October 5-6, 2024, the famous actor detailed his health adventure. More specifically, he emphasized that he got sick in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, before the existence of a vaccine.

“They said my pulse was gone. I was between life and death. Like my memories were gone. It is indeed a strange feeling”stated Al Pacino in the “New York Times”.

The actor also explained that he wasn’t feeling well and recalled having a fever and dehydration before he passed out. “I was sitting there in my house and I got lost. Kind of like that. I had no pulse”he said.

An ambulance arrived and Al Pacino woke up with a medical team in his living room, including six paramedics and two doctors. “They were wearing these suits that looked like they were from outer space or something. It was kind of shocking to open your eyes and see this. Everyone was around me shouting: ”Come back. It’s here”.

Speaking to “People”, the actor said that he came very close to death. “I thought I experienced death. Everyone thought I was dead.” The Oscar-winning actor told The New York Times that he “didn’t see the white light or anything” and that “there’s nothing there” after death, although the experience did give him some existential reflection.

“As Hamlet says, “To live or not to live…”. The unexplored land from which no traveler returns.” Finally, to the question of whether this afterlife experience he experienced changed the way he lives, he answered with disarming honesty: “At all”.