Jeff Bridges displays on his most cancers, COVID-19 battle and the way he pushed himself to stroll his daughter down the aisle

Although he is now in remission and again in motion with the brand new FX sequence The Previous Man, Jeff Bridges is reflecting on the back-to-back well being crises that noticed him battling each non-Hodgkins lymphoma and COVID-19.

In a brand new interview with CBS Sunday Morning, the 72-year-old star shares how he struggled to breathe after testing optimistic for the coronavirus alongside spouse Susan Geston, with whom he marks 45 years of marriage on June 5. The Huge Lebowski actor had beforehand shared with Folks that he was “near dying” throughout that point, as his chemotherapy therapies had left him with “no defenses” with which to struggle off COVID, which he contracted at a medical facility early final 12 months earlier than vaccines have been publicly out there.

“My spouse would ask, ‘Is he going to die?'” Bridges, who spent 5 weeks within the hospital in comparison with 5 days for Geston. “And so they’d say, ‘We’re doing the very best that we will.’ They would not reassure her that it was all going to be high-quality.”

He admitted that regardless of his docs’ urging him to struggle, he went into “give up mode.”

“We’re all gonna die, man,” he defined. “Come on. We’re all going to get sick and die. And your mates are gonna die. That is a part of it.”

Regardless of his ache, the Loopy Coronary heart actor did problem himself to indicate up for his household. The star shares three daughters with Geston, the youngest of whom, Haley, acquired married simply as his well being turned a nook.

“I began getting higher and my objective was strolling Haley down the marriage aisle,” he shared. “I would get to stroll her down, and do some marriage ceremony dance. It was actually, actually terrific.”

Footage shared with CBS Sunday Morning reveals the tuxedo-clad star displaying off some spry strikes throughout his father-daughter dance with Haley.

Finally, his well being scare has helped Bridges discover gratitude and new appreciation for the human situation.

“Throughout my sickness, we so typically stated, ‘That is not likely I needed; I needed extra of this,'” he stated. “However simply being alive, — seeing, listening to, feeling, touching … If COVID has taught us something, it is taught us that we’re all on this collectively, man. We’re all related. and to really feel that connection within the type of love coming at you, that is one thing else.”