Jeff Bridges reflects on being ‘pretty close to dying’ from Covid while recovering from cancer
Jeff Bridges has looked back on catching Covid while recovering from cancer, saying he was “dancing with my mortality”.The actor, known for playing “The Dude” in the 1998 cult hitThe Big Lebowski, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2020, after doctors found a “12-by-nine-inch tumour” in his stomach.In a new interview, he has spoken about how chemotherapy eradicated the cancer but left him with a very weak immune system – meaning that when he caught Covid in January 2021, he became seriously ill.“I had no…