Academy-award winner Jeff Bridges has shared a new update on his health following a cancer diagnosis and a grave case of coronavirus at the beginning of 2021.
Speaking to AARP for the magazine’s latest cover story, the "Big Lebowski" star recalled his first season filming the show during an interview with AARP saying that he had been “doing those fight scenes for the first episode” not knowing he “had a 9-by-12-inch tumor in my body.”
The Hollywood icon would soon undergo chemotherapy but in January of 2021, he was informed that he had contracted coronavirus as his immune system was weakened due to the cancer treatment.
“I had no immune system to fight it. Chemo had wiped that out, which made it really, really tough,” he said. “For me, cancer was nothing compared to the coronavirus.”
Bridges said he would go into “surrender mode” and had initially accepted it was his time.
“I couldn’t understand how you’d fight it. So I fought by surrendering, which is not the same as giving up,” he added.
“What I really felt at the time was love. Love was certainly magnified for me during this time. Not only from the people around me but also the love in my own heart for them. So what I did was more like giving in to love, you know?”.
Bridges would end up spending five months in the hospital and was treated using plasma from other patients that had recovered from coronavirus.
He credits his wife Sue as his absolute champion, noting, “She really fought to keep me off a ventilator. I didn’t want to be on it, and the doctors didn’t necessarily want that. But Sue was adamant.”
As Season of The Old Man begins, Bridges stated the tumor has shrunk to the size of a marble, noting: “I’m so blessed to have this cast to talk to and jam with. To get back to doing what invigorates you — it feels great, man.”
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