Al Pacino ‘Didn't Have a Pulse’ After Contracting COVID-19 During the Pandemic: ‘Everybody Thought I Was Dead’ (Exclusive)

Al Pacino has experienced many things throughout his life – including a brush with death.

While speaking with PEOPLE about his upcoming memoir, Sonny Boythe A face with a scar actor, 84, recalls how he technically died while sick with COVID-19 during the pandemic, which he writes about in the book.

Revealing that he “had no pulse” at one point during the medical emergency, Pacino, 84, says: “I thought I had died. Maybe I didn’t. I don’t think so, really. I know he made it.”

Al Pacino 2023.

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“I don’t think I died. Everyone thought I was dead. How could I be dead? If I was dead, I passed out,” he continues. “And when I opened my eyes, there were six paramedics in my living room. There was an ambulance outside the door and two of my doctors in those spacesuits [like] on Mars. I looked around and thought, ‘What happened to me?’ ”

“Well, I couldn’t die, because how did all those people gather, an ambulance in front of my house?” adds Pacino.

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The Godfather star says his “big sidekick Michael Quinn” immediately contacted paramedics when he noticed something was wrong. “He had people come in, because the nurse who was taking care of me said, ‘I can’t feel a pulse on this guy,'” Pacino remembers.

Al Pacino in March 2024.

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The House of Gucci star recalled later reflecting on her severe bout of COVID and thinking: “It’s gone. Like Shakespeare in Hamlet he says: ‘No more. To be or not to be.’ And then he says: ‘No more.’ And there is no more. Well, it’s not. I don’t know, who knows?”

Despite the harrowing experience, when asked if his health scare has changed the way he lives now, Pacino told PEOPLE, “Not at all.”

Sonny Boy it will be available for purchase on October 8 wherever books are sold.

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