Jeff Bridges’ battle with COVID-19 while going through chemotherapy for lymphoma left him “pretty close to dying,” the actor has revealed.
“The Big Lebowski” actor, 72, opened up in an interview with People published Thursday about the health difficulties he faced in the last year and a half. After being diagnosed with COVID in January 2021 — before vaccines were readily available to the general public — Bridges spent five months in the hospital with an already-weakened immune system, severe pain and, often, a need for supplemental oxygen.
