Al Pacino Reflects on Near-Death Experience: “I Didn’t Have a Pulse”
Al Pacino reveals he almost died of Covid – and delivers his verdict on the afterlife
Hollywood icon Al Pacino recently opened up about a terrifying near-death experience that left him reflecting on life, death, and aging.
The 84-year-old actor became severely dehydrated during a bout with COVID-19 in 2020, leading him to hire a nurse for assistance.
“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,” he explained.
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Moments later, an ambulance arrived, and Pacino found himself surrounded by six paramedics and two doctors dressed in protective gear that looked like it was from outer space.
As he drifted in and out of consciousness, Pacino heard the medical staff exclaiming, “He’s back. He’s here.”
This harrowing experience forced him to confront deep questions about life and mortality. “As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no traveler returns.’ It was no more. You’re gone,” he reflected. Death no longer seemed frightening to him; instead, it became an inevitable part of life.
The legendary actor has four children: Julie, 34, Anton, 23, Olivia, 23, and Roman, 1, whom he welcomed with his 29-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, in June 2023.
He shares Anton and Olivia with his ex-wife, Beverly D’Angelo, and had his oldest child, Julie, with Jan Tarrant in 1989.
Pacino is also set to release his memoir, Sonny Boy: A Memoir, later this month.
The book chronicles his rise to fame after performing in New York’s avant-garde theater scene and his upbringing in the South Bronx with his mother, Rose.
Reflecting on his near-death experience, he expressed the surreal realization of being without memories and feeling completely lost, saying, “You have nothing. Strange porridge.”
