Al Pacino details what he saw after his pulse stopped in near-death experience

The Godfather star has opened up about what happened when he contracted covid and his pulse was 'gone'.

The 84-year-old actor - best known for his roles in The Godfather movies, alongside films such as Serpico (1973), Scarface (1983) and The Irishman (2019) - contracted 'bad covid' in 2020 and ended up battling a life-threatening infection.

In an interview with The New York Times, Al Pacino revealed he had 'bad covid' but one day was feeling particularly and 'unusually not good'.

He ended up experiencing a fever and became dehydrated, and so a nurse came to the actor's house to administer him fluids, however, things ended up taking a turn for the worst.

Pacino recalls: "I was sitting there in my house, and I was gone. Like that. I didn’t have a pulse.

"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. It was kind of shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everybody was around me, and they said: 'He’s back. He’s here.'"

And the actor even revealed what he experienced when his pulse went.

Al Pacino got 'bad covid' (Rich Polk/Variety via Getty Images)

While noting he 'didn't see the white light or anything,' Pacino says he 'actually did' experience some sort of shift, although ultimately he explained: "There's nothing there."

In true thespian fashion, Pacino continued: "As Hamlet says, 'To be or not to be'; 'The undiscovered country from whose bourn, no traveler returns.' And he says two words: 'no more.'

"It was no more. You’re gone. I’d never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: It sounds good to say I died once. What is it when there’s no more?"

He reflected on the moment his pulse was 'gone' as being very much like 'you're here' one moment and then 'you're not'.

Pacino resolved: "I thought: Wow, you don’t even have your memories. You have nothing. Strange porridge."

However, now with a one-year-old addition to the family - in the form of youngest son Roman - to care for, Pacino reflects there's a campaign for him to 'stick around around a little longer if it's possible'.

So, hopefully we'll all be seeing Pacino on the big screen once more again soon.