Al Pacino Reveals ‘Drunk’ Kidnapping Proof With Crazy Fan

Al Pacino has revealed in his recently released memoir, Sonny Boy, that he was once kidnapped by a fan when he was drunk.

The 84-year-old actor has made several startling revelations in his new book and has now revealed that he was kidnapped early in his career.

The Scarfact icon revealed he was once drinking with Gene Hackman’s brother Richard Hackman “somewhere on our cross-country trip” when he “got so drunk I couldn’t find my way home” .

Fortunately, someone came to his aid as he recalled, “A woman said to me, ‘Oh, I’ll take you home.'” And without a second thought, I got into her car with her.

“But as we drove, even in my daze, I could tell she wasn’t taking me to where I was staying,” Pacino revealed in his book.

“I said to her, ‘What’s going on here?’ And she said straight up, ‘I’m kidnapping you.’

The actor said he was “known” to The Godfather at the time, but insisted the woman’s behavior was not just “aggressive flirting”.

“I’m from the South Bronx. When I see a crazy person trying to do something to me, I know how to get away,” she wrote.

“I said, ‘No, you’re not.’ I’m leaving.’ She said, ‘No, no,’ and kept driving.’

“I opened the door like I wanted to jump out of the car,” he wrote. “I was a little drunk, but I was ready to jump out of a moving car if I had to. That’s not happening to me, man.

Luckily, the gesture was enough to deter her captor. “He locked the door and took me home,” she revealed.

The actor revealed in the same book, which was published on October 15, that he is “still haunted” by a childhood injury to his penis.

In one excerpt, he described the eye injury that occurred when an iron fence hit him “between the legs.”

‘I was walking along 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 right between my legs. Then he recalled the traumatic recovery that he still thinks about.

Elsewhere in the book, the Hollywood icon revealed that at one point in his career he was “broken” after working with a corrupt accountant.

He said that in 2011 he started “getting warnings that my accountant at the time, a guy who had a lot of famous clients, couldn’t be trusted.”

He revealed that he later took on a role in Adam Sandler’s Jack and Jill movie due to his financial problems.

“Jack and Jill was the first movie I did after I lost my money. To be honest, I did it because I had nothing else,” he wrote. “Adam Sandler wanted me and I got paid a lot for it . So I went out and did it, and he helped me. He’s been wonderful to work with, and he’s turned out to be a great actor and a great guy, too.”

He admitted that although his finances are back to normal, he now “has to think very seriously about my estate now”. He added: “That means I have to take advice from people who are much smarter than me.”

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