The 84-year-old recounts the childhood ordeal in his memoir 'Sonny Boy', which hit shelves last week. Photo: TNS
Well, it’s officially spooky season, because even Al Pacino is “haunted”... by a decades-old penis injury, no less.
The Oscar-winning Bronx native, 84, recounts the childhood ordeal in his memoir Sonny Boy, which hit shelves last week, in an excerpt obtained by People.
The Godfather star wrote that his genitals “remained attached, along with the trauma” of the incident that occurred when he was about 10 years old and “walking on a thin, iron fence, doing my tightrope dance.
“It had been raining all morning, and sure enough, I slipped and fell, and the iron bar hit me directly between my legs,” recalled Pacino.
An older good Samaritan found the future star “groaning in the street” as he was “in such pain that I could hardly walk home” and brought the young Pacino to his aunt’s apartment.
There, while awaiting the doctor’s house call, the Heat actor was on a bed “with my pants completely down around my ankles as the three women in my life – my mother, my aunt, and my grandmother – poked and prodded at my penis in a semipanic,” he wrote, hating how the trio was “whispering things to one another as they conducted their inspection.”
Over 70 years later, Pacino said he remains “haunted by the thought of it.”
It seems all really is in working order as Pacino and 30-year-old producer Noor Alfallah last year welcomed son Roman. He also has three adult children from prior relationships.
Pacino told The Interview podcast earlier this month that the newest addition to his legacy is “one of the reasons, of course” that he wrote the book to begin with, so the 16-month-old will have his words to hold onto.
Pacino also revealed in the chat that he suffered a near-fatal brush with Covid-19 in 2020. – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
