Al Pacino’s ‘Pulse Stopped’ During 2020’s Covid-19 Scare

Al Pacino was so close to death that he no longer had a pulse after contracting Covid-19 in 2020.

The 84-year-old “Godfather” star revealed his frightening experience with the disease in a conversation with The New York Times ahead of the release of his upcoming memoir “Sonny Boy.”

He explained that after feeling unwell with fever and dehydration, he asked a nurse for help.

“So I asked someone to get me a nurse to give me fluids,” he said. “I was sitting there in my house and I was gone. “So. I had no pulse.”

“Within a few minutes they were there – the ambulance in front of my house. I had like six paramedics in this living room and two doctors, and they were wearing these outfits that looked like they came from outer space or something.”

Pacino added that it was a “shocking” experience because “everyone was around me and they were saying, ‘He’s back.’ He’s here.’”

But despite his near-death experience, the Oscar winner neither saw the afterlife nor had any metaphysical experiences.

“There’s nothing there,” he revealed. “As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered land from whose home no traveler returns.’ And he says two words: “No more.”

“There was nothing left. You’re gone. I never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: it sounds good to say that I died once. What if there’s nothing left?”

Although Al was close to death, he is philosophical about his health problems.

“I guess it’s natural to have a different perspective on death as you get older,” he mused. “It just is. I didn’t ask for it. It just comes, as many things just come.”