Actress and all-around goddess Salma Hayek is getting candid about her near-fatal COVID-19 diagnosis last year. Her battle with the virus was kept a secret from fans, until now.
The Oscar-nominated actress recently spoke out for the first time about contracting the virus in a recent cover story for Variety and fans are sending the actress love for what she called a near-death diagnosis.
Not only is she the most stunning 54-year-old on the planet, but she's a fighter, too!
Fans have recently learned that the actress almost lost her life in a battle with COVID-19 at the beginning of the pandemic.
Recently, Pink got candid with fans about how she felt she and her son were going to die last year amidst their battle with COVID-19.
"At the point where I thought it was over for [she and Jameson]," she recalled.
"As a parent, you think about, ‘What am I leaving for my kid? What am I teaching them?'"
"Are they going to make it in this world?’ — this crazy world that we live in now — and what do I need to tell them if this is the last time I get to tell them anything?'"
"My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad," Salma told Variety's Marc Malkin. "I said, 'No, thank you. I'd rather die at home.'"
The actress told the publication she still hasn’t fully regained the energy she once had.
However, in classic Salma fashion, she was soon off filming a movie right after her near-fatal COVID battle.
"It was not a lot of time," she recalled. "It was easy. It was the perfect job to just get back into it."
Fans were so happy to hear Salma was able to fight through her battle with COVID-19.
"If you are a woman and you are in a movie that is very successful and they say you are their favorite character, they will still give all credits of the box office to the guy. They don’t count who you’re bringing into the theaters."
" And then the worst part is that I was one of the first people they cast. I had to keep my mouth shut for so many months. I couldn’t tell a soul. And I couldn’t wait for the day that I could say it."
Way to go, Salma!
h/t: Variety.
