Al Pacino Recounts Near-Death Experience With COVID-19: ‘I Didn’t Have A Pulse’

Al Pacino is opening up about a near-death experience he suffered during the pandemic in 2020. While appearing on The New York Times “The Interview” podcast, the 84-year-old says he came close to death after becoming infected with COVID-19. “What happened was, I felt not good — unusually not good,” Pacino explained. “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.” Pacino is currently promoting his upcoming memoir “Sonny Boy,” out Oct. 8.