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Jeff Bridges reflected connected his crab and COVID-19 conflict that near nan character "pretty adjacent to dying."
Bridges was diagnosed pinch lymphoma and later contracted COVID-19. Three years later, "The Big Lebowski" prima is doing "great" station recovery.
The 74-year-old character explained being near-death was a"learning experience," successful an question and reply pinch Page Six astatine nan 49th Chaplin Award Gala astatine Lincoln Center.
"It’s astonishing nan measurement nan mind tin hide each that stuff," Bridges added. "I don’t deliberation excessively overmuch astir nan past."
JEFF BRIDGES TALKS 'THE BIG LEBOWSKI' AND HIS TERRIFYING NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
Jeff Bridges' near-death conflict pinch crab and COVID-19 was a "learning experience" for "The Big Lebowski" star. (Getty Images)
Bridges announced his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis successful October 2020.
"As nan Dude would say.. New S--- has travel to light," he said, successful reference to his characteristic from "The Big Lebowski." "I person been diagnosed pinch Lymphoma. Although it is simply a superior disease, I consciousness fortunate that I person a awesome squad of doctors and nan prognosis is good."
The character had discovered nan tumor while filming nan TV bid "The Old Man."
"I was doing immoderate exercises while connected nan crushed and felt what seemed for illustration a bony successful my stomach. I thought to myself, ‘Hmm.’ But it didn’t wounded aliases anything," Bridges antecedently told AARP magazine. "I asked Sue what she thought. She said: ‘I don’t know, but you’ve sewage to get it checked out.'"
"I’m hiking and emotion great," he continued. "My shins really itch, and I think, ‘Oh, I conscionable got, you know, barren skin.’ Then I had nighttime sweats, but thought, ‘That’s conscionable basking summertime nights.’ It turns retired those are lymphoma symptoms."
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Jeff Bridges was diagnosed pinch Non-Hodgkin lymphoma successful 2020. (Getty Images)
Bridges yet went back to filming, not knowing he had a tumor successful his stomach.
"I was doing those conflict scenes for nan first section of ‘The Old Man’ and didn’t cognize that I had a 9-by-12-inch tumor successful my body," Bridges reflected.
He added, "You’d deliberation that would person wounded aliases something, erstwhile they were punching maine and stuff. It didn’t."
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Jeff Bridges began noticing symptoms of crab while filming "The Old Man." (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
After completing his last information of chemotherapy, Bridges came down pinch COVID-19.
"Shortly aft uncovering retired that bully news, I sewage a missive from nan curen halfway wherever I was getting my chemo, and they told maine that location was a anticipation that I had been exposed to COVID," Bridges told Fox News Digital astatine nan time. "That meant maine being successful nan infirmary for 5 weeks, very adjacent to, you know, kicking nan bucket. I mean, I was very sick."
He confessed to People mag successful 2022 that nan ordeal near him "pretty adjacent to dying."
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