Jeff Bridges has revealed he nearly died when he caught Covid-19 while he was battling cancer, and felt he was ‘ready to go’.
The 74-year-old caught coronavirus in January 2021 while his immune system was weakened by chemotherapy as he fought non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The movie star says he went into ‘surrender mode’, and was ‘ready to go’ feeling he was ‘dancing with mortality’.
Thankfully Jeff Bridges managed to fight Covid and eventually recovered after receiving a convalescent plasma treatment. This uses blood from people who have already fought the virus.
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He has told Page Six the terrifying ordeal was a ‘learning experience’.
The celebrity said: “It’s amazing the way the mind can forget all that stuff”.
But he doesn’t let it get him down: “I don’t think too much about the past”.
Jeff Bridges spoke about his brush with Covid and death at the Lincoln Center earlier this week, when he was being honored with the Chaplin Award.
Bridges started his chemotherapy in 2020, and his health was going well – until Jeff contracted Covid-19.
He said at the time: “I had no defenses. That’s what chemo does – it strips you of all your immune system. I had nothing to fight it. covid made my cancer look like nothing”.
After spending five months in hospital and enduring horrible pain, he felt he almost gave up.
The Wrestler star admitted he was “pretty close to dying”, but doctors told him ‘you’ve got to fight, you’re not fighting’.
“I was in surrender mode. I was ready to go. I was dancing with mortality”.
Thankfully the plasma treatment allowed his body to begin to recover, and after three sessions, Jeff Bridges beat Covid. He later drove his cancer into remission.
The star, who has been married to his wife Susan Geston for almost 44 years, said it made him even more grateful for his family.
The pair exchanged vows in 1977 and share three daughters, Isabelle, Jessica and Haley, and three grandchildren.
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