Al Pacino was kidnapped by a fan.
The 84-year-old actor has been sober for years, but revealed that during his drunken days, he once lost so much control that he couldn’t remember where he was staying and stupidly agreed to get into a car with a woman when she saw him and offered to to take him
In his recently published memoirs ‘Sonny Boy’, the actor indicated that he got drunk while out drinking with Richard Hackman, brother of actor Gene Hackman, after he starred in ‘The Godfather’.
Al added of the incident in which he “got so drunk he couldn’t find his way home”: “A woman said to me, ‘Oh, I’ll take you home.’ And without thinking twice, I got in her car with her.” “.
The actor also noted that he realized he was trapped: “As we were driving, even in my daze, I realized that he wasn’t taking me back to the place where I was staying. I said, ‘What’s going on here?’ And she told me directly: ‘I’m kidnapping you.'”
Al said that he was “very well known” at that time, since he had already filmed ‘The Godfather’, from 1972.
The ‘Heat’ star insisted the woman’s behavior wasn’t just “aggressive flirting,” noting, “I’m from the South Bronx. When I see a crazy guy try to do something to me, I know how to get away. I told her, ‘ No, you’re not. I’m going out.’ She said, ‘No, no,’ and kept driving.”
Al opened the car door and threatened to jump out if she didn’t stop – adding: “I was a little drunk, but I was willing to jump out of a moving car if I had to. That wasn’t going to happen to me, man.”
His threat worked and his captor agreed to take him home.
Al also tells in his book why he has stayed away from marriage.
And he assured that “he has always avoided it” because he likes having his own space: “I guess I didn’t see how I could help in anything. I just wanted to avoid what, at that moment, I thought was the inevitable: an entry into the pain train.” “.
