Jeff Bridges recalled the harrowing experience of contracting COVID-19 while recovering from chemotherapy: 'I was dancing with my mortality.'
is treasuring the time he gets to spend with his wife, grandkids, and new puppy these days after nearly facing death twice over.
The actor described the last year and a half of his life as “a bizarre dream” in a new interview withafter being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and then nearly dying of COVID-19. It all started when he felt something in his stomach while exercising, prompting him to visit a doctor who told him that he “had a 12-by-9-in. tumor in my body. Like a child in my body. It didn't hurt or anything,” he said.
But while his prognosis on the cancer front was looking up, in January 2021, he had another health setback when he contracted COVID-19 after the chemo had significantly weakened his immune system. The actor explained, “I had no defenses. That's what chemo does—it strips you of all your immune system. I had nothing to fight it. COVID made my cancer look like nothing.
Thankfully, however, Bridges was able to receive a convalescent plasma treatment, a therapy that uses blood from those who have recovered from COVID-19, and began to see improvements in his health. Bridges said he began working with a physical therapist three times a week and “started taking baby steps” towards recovery. He is now in remission and already back at work filming a new movie.
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