Actress Danielle Vasinova opens up about her special experience with death.
In December 2019, months before COVID was declared a pandemic. Vasinova is infected with a virus. The actress, who will start 2025 with roles in both “1923” and its spin-off “The Madison,” “Yellowstone” is another story. He fell so ill that he had to lie still for three minutes.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, she explained that when she was sick She felt like she had the flu. So she went to urgent care in Los Angeles. Doctors sent her home with a diagnosis of strep throat and instructions for rest.
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Danielle Vasinova says she died three minutes after contracting Covid. (Hollywood to you / Starmax / GC Pictures)
The next day, she said she woke up feeling “very weak,” like she couldn’t walk. She plans to travel to Las Vegas to shoot a commercial. And family members drove her there from her home in LA. Vasinova felt ill throughout the trip. But that night, she didn’t wake up her brother, who she was staying with, at 2 a.m. to tell him. “I think I’m going to die.”
He drove her to the hospital and left her in front of the car as he was parking, and she said he had since told her that when he came into the hospital “It was like a scene straight out of a car “movie,” with people rushing into the same room. When he got there He saw a woman performing chest compressions on top of Vasinova. And then he saw a straight line on the heart monitor.
“Give me three minutes,” she said. “Gone.”
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After that doctors and nurses were able to make her heart beat again. She was transferred to another hospital. which she immediately fell into a coma
“So I had complete organ failure,” Vasinova explains. “They put me on a ventilator. And I stayed there for almost a month. My mother is from New York. They couldn’t tell her I could do it. They didn’t know if I would relapse or not. If I’m going through If this is the end of the road? But there is something more to me.”
Danielle Vasinova said she “had complete organ failure” and had to be put into a coma after doctors made her heart beat again. (Rick Kern/Getty Images)
She was admitted to hospital on December 1, 12 Nov 2019 and released on New Year’s Day.
During her stay In addition to all organ failure. She also received a pericardial effusion. This is a type of surgery to drain fluid from the sac surrounding the heart. She also had two tubes inserted into her lungs to drain fluid and placed her on a ventilator.
“I weighed 90 pounds,” she recalled of being discharged. “I had to learn how to walk again.”
She continued: “I really had to take a step back. And think… Why is there no time for me? And what is my purpose? And what am I doing here? Because I don’t even know what I’m doing. back to work again I don’t know my own path. I don’t know what to do.”
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Vasinova grew up surrounded by horses. and has always liked riding horses So she said she finally turned there for answers.
“I started going to the barn and couldn’t ride because I was so weak. Can’t even go up the stairs. But I started going to the barn. And it’s like the healing power, the healing power of horses. And just being around them and being around that energy. And I felt that… There is a greater purpose here.”
Danielle Vasinova says her love for horses has helped her as she recovers from her near-death experience. (Photo Daniel Zuchnik/GC)
The actress said that she is grateful to the medical team who helped her and for “Love and prayers” sent to her during the ordeal Adding that “It really connects with God. And I am grateful for every day here.”
Even though she had technically been dead for three minutes. But she said she had no near-death experiences. Or if she did, she wouldn’t remember.
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–I I don’t remember because it immediately put me in a coma,” she explains, “Right away, like after I died. I immediately went into a coma. And they said I might have a flashback. I may have things. That happened or that came to me later in life. But I don’t remember ever seeing the light. I don’t remember anything like that.”
What she remembers is feeling “a sense of calm” as she lay down.
Danielle Vasinova said she felt “a sense of calm” while lying down in the hospital. (Hollywood to you / Starmax / GC Pictures)
“I can’t explain it any other way than that. There’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s very strange because it’s very traumatic. It was like that… I was gone, but there was only a feeling of peace. The feeling of the calm that arises That’s all I remember.”
Five years later, Vasinova says she has still not fully recovered.
Although she is “getting stronger every day,” her left lung is still not at full capacity. “I just have to keep training and strengthening and, you know, exercising and sometimes I get tired and I just, you know, have to recognize that and take time off. So it is a work in progress.”
However, her current condition is “Day and night” from what is She said she did “Better every day”
Danielle Vasinova said her faith has helped her overcome her health challenges. (Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images)
She said her faith “100%” helped her get through it.
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“I think before that I had lost touch with my faith a little bit,” she said, “and I think it really connected me and, you know, it showed me what was really important in life.”
in February Vasinova will be introduced into the universe. “Yellowstone,” appearing in the second season premiere of “1923,” though she had no stories to share about Harrison. Ford and Helen Mirren, stars of the show But she has an interesting story about how she got into acting.
Harrison Ford plays Jacob Dutton in “1923” (James Minchin III/Paramount+)
“They dropped me at the last minute because I wasn’t actually the first choice for the job,” she revealed. I guess she can’t ride a horse (horse) and I ride a horse. And they’re like, ‘Can you come here tomorrow?’”
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Her character Ata Waipa is a Native American from the Comanche Nation. Vasinova is Cherokee and Sioux. And she says that even though she was cast at the last minute, But she had to learn how to speak Comanche for the role. The storm halted filming for a few weeks. This gave her more time to prepare. But she says she has the dialect and language ready to go in a short time frame.
Vasinova will star alongside Michelle. Pfeiffer in her new series “The Madison” (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)
In “The Madison,” an upcoming series set in Taylor Sheridan’s universe, Vasinova will appear alongside Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman named Kestrel. who lives on a Montana ranch with her husband. She did not provide any further details. Due to fear of spoilers
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“Michelle is … she’s a superstar. She’s a rock star She was a sweetheart,” she said of Pfeiffer.
