Al Pacino says he’s never done cocaine in his life, even though everyone thinks I have

Al Pacino has said he has never done cocaine in his life, even though everyone thinks I have.

The Hollywood icon and star of The godfather, Dog Day afternoon And Scarface releases his ‘astonishingly revealing’ memoir Sunny boy today (October 8), which you can order here.

He has appeared on the New York Times‘ The Everyday podcast to talk about the book, in which he explains that despite thinking he has a reputation as a cocaine addict, he has in fact never touched the Class A drug.

“They are shocked to find out I don’t use cocaine,” he said. “I never took it in my life.”

Watch the interview below:

When asked who are these people who assumed he was using the drug, he said, “Ah, I have a vine at my house.”

“I’m not the kind of guy who does coke,” he continued. ‘I don’t need any uppers. I’m up!”

In another interview to promote the release, the legendary actor, 84, revealed that he almost died from COVID-19 in 2020. “I was sitting there in my house and I was gone,” he said. ‘Like this. I had no pulse. Within minutes they were there: the ambulance in front of my house.”

“I had about six paramedics in that living room, and there were two doctors, and they had clothes on that looked like they came from outer space or something. It was quite shocking to open your eyes and see that. Everyone was standing around me and they said, ‘He’s back. He’s here. ”

The nine-time Oscar nominee was then asked if the experience had any “metaphysical ripples” on him, to which he replied: “It did. I didn’t see the white light or anything. There’s nothing there.

“As Hamlet says, ‘To be or not to be’; ‘The undiscovered land from which no traveler returns.’ And he says two words: ‘no more.’ It was no more. You’re gone. I had never thought about it in my life. But you know actors: it sounds good to say that I died once. What is it when there is nothing left?”

Pacino will also play a mafia boss again in a new kidnapping thriller. He made his name playing mafia bosses and gangsters in films like The godfather, The IrishmanAnd Scarfaceand will now play a real-life mafia boss in the film Fascinated.

Filming will begin later this winter in Italy. The director is Dito Montiel (Man down), who co-wrote the script with Robin Shushan and Mammoliti.