Jeff Bridges feels good after beating cancer, but Covid effects still linger
The veteran actor (75) told People that, 'Some things, it's hard to tell if it's the cancer and the Covid or if it's just old age.'
He added that he's had some memory issues and believes he's dealing with some 'long-term' effects from Covid-19.
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'I can't smell,' he said.
'My wife laughs at me, she says, 'I haven't showered in days. You can't smell?' Some positive sides to it, I suppose. Although I don't mind her smell.'
Jeff has been married to fellow actor Susan Geston since 1977 and they have three daughters.
After Covid halted production on Jeff's Disney+ thriller series The Old Man in 2020 he noticed symptoms of what would later be diagnosed as lymphoma.
'I was doing some exercises on the ground and felt what seemed like a bone in my stomach. I thought to myself, 'Hmm'. But it didn't hurt or anything.'
Because there was no pain he decided he didn't need to see a doctor. It was only later, on a trip in Montana with his wife, that he started noticing more symptoms.
'I'm hiking and feeling great. My shins really itch and I think, 'Oh, I just got, you know, dry skin'. Then I had night sweats but thought, 'That's just hot summer nights.' It turns out those are lymphoma symptoms.'
He finally visited a doctor and was given the diagnosis in October 2020.
The strangest part of having cancer, he said, was being able to shoot action scenes with a tumour in his belly.
'What is so bizarre, to me anyway, is that in the first season [of The Old Man] when I was doing these fight scenes, I had a 9-inch by 12-inch (23cm by 58cm) tumour in my body, in my stomach and didn't hurt at all.'
While undergoing chemotherapy he contracted Covid and had to be hospitalised for five weeks.
Fighting Covid, he said at the time, was worse than cancer and he accepted that he might die.
But the support he received from his wife helped him get through the challenging time.
He beat both diseases and has been in remission since September 2021.
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