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Jeff Bridges Looks Back connected Tough Battle With Cancer & COVID-19
Jeff Bridges knows he's fortunate to beryllium live today.
In 2020, the Oscar victor shared with his followers that helium had been diagnosed with lymphoma. But soon aft proceeding bully quality from doctors that chemotherapy was working, Jeff tested positive for COVID-19 earlier vaccines were available.
"The chemo wipes retired your immune strategy and erstwhile COVID deed me, I had thing to combat it," Jeff exclusively told E! News. "I was conscionable truly at death's door a mates of times there."
During his wellness scare, which resulted successful being successful the infirmary for much than 4 months, the 72-year-old questioned if helium would ever get to enactment connected the large oregon tiny surface again. He besides feared helium wouldn't beryllium capable to locomotion his girl Haley, 36, down the aisle.
"I retrieve the doctors saying to me, ‘Jeff, you gotta fight,'" helium said. "I had nary thought what they were talking about. I thought, ‘Man, I'm successful surrender mode here.' With a large aesculapian team, large trainers and my family, everybody brought maine back."
While Jeff is backmost astatine enactment filming the FX thriller The Old Man, he's astir grateful for the household astir him including his longtime woman Susan Geston. Married since 1977, the couple's emotion communicative grew adjacent stronger arsenic Jeff fought for his life. In fact, the Crazy Heart prima doesn't hesitate successful calling his woman "the emotion of my life."
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"Sue and I were looking astatine each different and we went, ‘How fortunate are we?' I hug that miss and I get recharged. It's close there, truthful accessible," Jeff said. "I'm being conscious of worldly that's conscionable close successful beforehand of maine similar emotion and my household and each of the worldly that's disposable for me. I'm conscionable truly loving this evident happening that we unrecorded with each the clip and instrumentality for granted."
With 3 daughters and 3 grandkids rounding retired his family, Jeff is focused connected staying steadfast and raising consciousness astir his conflict arsenic helium remains successful remission.
On Sept. 15, the histrion teamed up with AstraZeneca to motorboat Up The Antibodies, a caller run that embraces the world for millions of immunocompromised Americans that COVID-19 isn't over.
"While the enactment to up my antibodies to support maine from COVID-19 wasn't astir erstwhile I was going done crab treatment, it is now," Jeff said aft consulting with doctors. "As soon arsenic I could, I upped my antibodies. And present I'm feeling much assured to get backmost to doing the things I love."
And although his conflict with crab and COVID-19 was challenging to accidental the least, Jeff is trying to find the positives successful what tin lone beryllium described arsenic a scary situation.
"So often things are close connected our chemoreceptor that we don't appreciate," helium said. "But it turns retired determination are galore affirmative sides successful my beingness that came retired of that experience."
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