Jeff Bridges says he came "pretty close to dying" from COVID last year
Bridges apparently spent 5 months in the hospital after a combination of chemotherapy and COVID had him "dancing with my mortality"
Jeff Bridges revealed this week that he believes he was “pretty close to dying” last year, after contracting COVID-19. Bridges, who’s now 72, gave a brief update on his health to People, noting that a combination of chemotherapy and COVID left him “dancing with my mortality.”
Specifically, Bridges related that he was especially susceptible to the disease, which has killed roughly 1 million people in the United States over the last 2 years, due to treatment for the cancer he’d been diagnosed with back in October of 2020. On the plus side, Bridges’ lymphoma responded well to an aggressive regimen of chemotherapy; on the negative, the damage the treatment did to his immune system left him far more susceptive to COVID when he contracted it in January of 2021.