Jeff Bridges opened up about his cancer battle and said it got so bad at one point that a doctor told him he had to keep fighting or he wasn’t going to make it.
Speaking to People magazine, the 74-year-old actor — who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma, a form of blood cancer, in 2020 — said he wasn’t sure if he was even going to be back for Season 2 of his FX CIA spy series “The Old Man” after undergoing chemotherapy and contracting COVID-19.
“While I was sick, I thought I not only wouldn’t go back to ‘The Old Man,’ I thought I might just kick the bucket,” Bridges told the outlet. “It got down to that.”
“I remember one doctor said, ‘You got to fight, Jeff. You’re not fighting,’” he added. “And I had no idea what he was talking about. I was in surrender mode, just, ‘Everybody dies. This might be me doing that.’”
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