Legendary actor Al Pacino opens up about a horrific childhood accident in his new memoir, Sonny Boy, which has left him “haunted” to this day
In his new memoir titled “Sonny Boy,” actor Al Pacino revealed a horrifying childhood injury.
The 84 year old, who recently celebrated his girlfriend’s 30th birthday, narrates an incident of falling on an iron fence in South Bronx, New York when he was just 10 years old.
“I was walking on a thin, iron fence, doing my tightrope dance,” the star pens in his memoir. “It had been raining all morning, and sure enough, I slipped and fell, and the iron bar hit me directly between my legs.” Unable to make his way home, a passerby came to his aid and a doctor examined him at his aunt’s residence.
“I lay there on the 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 reminisces.
Pacino labels it as “one of the most embarrassing experiences” of his existence.
“To this day I’m haunted by the thought of it,” he admits.
His memoir also sheds light on his mother’s suicide attempt and the hurdles he faced in his career.