Jeff Bridges almost died when he came down with COVID in January 2021.The Big Lebowski star, 72, had no resistance as he was getting chemo for his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.The Hollywood icon added that he did not really have the will to fight the virus as he felt he was 'dancing with mortality,' he toldPeople.The star has been in remission from lymphoma since September 2021 and is now promoting his new FX show The Old Man.
Close call: Jeff Bridges has shared that he almost died when he came down with COVID in early 2021. He was pictured in LA in 2019 A rare recent photo of Bridges: Here he is seen in November 2020.
He has not been seen much since 2019'I was pretty close to dying. The doctors kept telling me, "Jeff, you’ve got to fight. You’re not fighting." I was in surrender mode.
I was ready to go. I was dancing with my mortality,' said the father of three who has been married to wife Susan Geston since 1977.He was weak from battling cancer - which he revealed in early 2020 he had - and he was not vaccinated as there was no vaccine yet. 'I had no defense.