Al Pacino Recalls He ‘Didn’t Have A Pulse’ During Near-Death Experience

“Everybody thought I was dead,” the “Godfather” star said.

Al Pacino is opening up about suffering a life-threatening experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a new interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of his upcoming memoir, “Sonny Boy,” Pacino revealed that he had a close call with death after falling ill with a “bad” case of COVID-19 in 2020.

Noting that the health scare happened before COVID vaccines became available, the actor shared that his health took a turn for the worse after he temporarily lost his pulse.

The “Godfather” legend, 84, explained that the incident started after he felt “unusually not good,” before eventually catching a fever and becoming severely dehydrated.

“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,” he said. “In a matter of minutes they were there — the ambulance in front of my house. I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had these outfits on that looked like they were from outer space or something.”