Al Pacino revealed that he will be forever “haunted by the thought” of an injury he suffered to his private parts when he was a child.
In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, he shared that he was 10 years old when he had the accident while living in the South Bronx, New York. “I was walking on a thin iron fence, doing my tightrope dance,” the 84-year-old actor wrote in the book, according to People magazine.
“It had been raining all morning, and I surely slipped and fell, and the iron bar hit me directly between the legs,” he recalled. Pacino also mentioned that he remembers feeling a lot of pain, to the point that he couldn’t get back home.
Fortunately, a man passed by and took him to his aunt’s house. “I lay there in bed, with my pants completely down to my ankles, while the three women in my life — my mother, my aunt, and my grandmother — poked and prodded my […] in a state of panic,” he revealed.
“I thought, God, please take me now, while I heard them whispering things to each other as they performed the inspection. To this day, I am haunted by that thought,” he lamented, describing the incident as “one of the most embarrassing experiences” of his life.
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