The actor spoke to People about contracting Covid last year while “I had a 12 by 9 inch tumor in my body. Like a child in my body.”
“Covid made my cancer look like nothing,” he said about the struggle to breathe and the extreme pain. “I couldn’t even turn in bed without calling the nurse to help me with oxygen.”
His wife Susan said she wasn’t sure she would survive, and Bridges was worried about it.
“I was pretty close to dying. The doctors were telling me, ‘Jeff, you have to fight. You’re not fighting,'” he said. “I was in surrender mode. I was ready to leave. I was dancing with my mortality.”
The Oscar winner is now healthier, with a newborn grandson, a new puppy and a new TV show, “The Old Man.”
He also has a new life.
Who would say, “I’d love a little cancer and give me a dose of Covid?” Bridges said. Everything was presented in the most beautiful way. ”
“The Old Man” premieres on FX on June 18th.