“Covid made my most cancers seem like nothing,” he mentioned of struggling for breath and being in excessive ache. “I could not even roll over in mattress with out calling the nurse to assist me with the oxygen.”
His spouse Susan mentioned she wasn’t positive he would survive, and Bridges anxious the identical.
“I used to be fairly near dying. The medical doctors stored telling me, ‘Jeff, you have to combat. You are not preventing,’” he mentioned. “I used to be in give up mode. I used to be able to go. I used to be dancing with my mortality.”
The Oscar winner is now more healthy, with a new child grandson, a brand new pet and a brand new TV present, “The Outdated Man.”
He additionally has a brand new lease on life.
“Who would say ‘I would love some most cancers, and provides me a dose of Covid?’” Bridges mentioned. “However my capability to obtain all of the love and provides it was simply heightened. Every part was turned up in probably the most stunning means.”
“The Outdated Man” debuts on FX on June 18.