Actress Danielle Vasinova opens up about her unique experience with death.
In December 2019, months before COVID was declared a pandemic, Vasinova contracted the virus. The actor, will start 2025 with two parts “1923” and “The Madison,” another. “Yellowstone” appearshe was so sick that he fell asleep for three minutes.
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, she explained that when she got sick she felt like she had the flu, so she went to urgent care in Los Angeles, where doctors sent her home with a diagnosis of strep throat. and rest instructions. .
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Danielle Vasinova says she died three minutes after contracting COVID. (Hollywood To You/Star Max Pictures/GC)
The next day, she said she woke up feeling “very weak” as if she couldn't walk. He planned to visit there Vegas to film a commercial, and a family member drove her there from her home in LA Vasinova felt sick throughout the drive, but it wasn't until two o'clock that night that she woke her sister of his, with whom he lived, to tell him, “I think I am going to die.”
He took her to the hospital and dropped her off in front of her when she went to park the car, and she said she had been telling him that when she got inside the hospital, “it was like a scene from a movie,” all the people ran into one room. When he got there, he saw a woman on top of Vasinova, doing chest compressions, and saw a flat heart machine.
“In three minutes,” he said. “It's gone.”
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After doctors and nurses were able to restart his heart, he was taken to another hospital, where he was immediately put into a coma.
“So I had a complete organ failure,” Vasinova explained. They put me on a ventilator, and I was there for about a month. My mother was coming out. New York. They could not tell him that I would succeed. They didn't know if I was going to go back to that way, if I was going to pull over, if this was the end of the road or not. But there was something more for me. It was not my time to go.”
Danielle Vasinova says she “had a complete organ failure” and was put into a coma after her heart started beating again. (Rick Kern/Getty Images)
He was admitted to the hospital on December 12, 2019, and was released on New Year's Day.
During his stay, in addition to the complete failure of the organ, he was given a pericardial window – a type of surgery performed to drain fluid from the sac around the heart. He also had two tubes inserted into his lungs to drain the fluid and was placed on a ventilator.
“I was 90 pounds,” he recalls when he was released. I had to learn to walk again.
He continued, “I had to go back and figure out… why wasn't it my time, and what is my purpose, and what am I here to do? Because I didn't even know how to work. I didn't know my way forward.
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Vasinova grew up around horses and has always loved riding, so she said she ended up turning there for answers.
“I started going to the barn and I couldn't ride because I was so weak. I couldn't even climb the stairs. But I started going to the barn, and it was like, healing, the healing power of horses and being around them and being around that power and I felt like… there's a great purpose here.
Danielle Vasinova says her love of horses helped her recover from her near-death experience. (Daniel Zuchnik/GC Images)
The actress said she is grateful to the medical team that helped her and the “love and prayers” that were sent her way during her ordeal, adding, “It was really a meeting with God and thanks every day here.”
Although he was technically dead for three minutes, he said he had no near-death experience. Or if he did, he doesn't remember now.
“I don't remember because they induced a coma right away,” he explained. Like after I died, I passed out right away, and they said I might have some back- rao, I may have things happening or coming to me later in life. But I don't remember seeing the light. I don't remember anything like that.”
What he remembers is a “sense of peace” as he became clear.
Danielle Vasinova said she felt “at peace” during her hospital stay. (Hollywood To You/Star Max Pictures/GC)
“I can't describe it as anything other than, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's amazing because it was so emotional, as it was… I was I went. But there was this feeling of peace, the feeling of It's all I remember.
Five years later, Vasinova says she still hasn't fully recovered.
While he's “getting stronger every day,” his left lung isn't fully recovered, “So I've got to keep working out and getting stronger and, you know, working out . And sometimes I get tired. So you just have to, you know, take time off, so it's a work in progress.
However, his situation now is “night and day” according to how it was at that time. He said he is getting “better every day.”
Danielle Vasinova says her faith has helped her through her life's problems. (Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images)
His faith, he said, “100%” helped him do it.
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He said: “I think I had lost my faith a while before that.” “And I think it brought me back together, and you know, it showed me what's important in life.”
In February, Vasinova will make her debut “Yellowstone” universeappearing in the first two episodes of “1923.” Although he had no stories to share about Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren, the stars of the show, he did have an interesting story about how he came to be cast.
Harrison Ford stars as Jacob Dutton in “1923.” (James Minchin III/Paramount+)
He said: “They took me down last minute because I wasn't really the first choice for the job. “But the other girl they had rejected, I guess she couldn't riding (horses), and so, you know, I'm riding, and they're like, 'Can you be there tomorrow?'
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His character, Ata Waipa, is a Native American from the Comanche community. Vasinova herself is Cherokee and Sioux, and she said that although she was cast at the last minute, she had to learn to speak Comanche for the role. The hurricane pushed back filming by several weeks, giving him more time to prepare, but he said he had the language and speech ready to go ahead in short order.
Vasinova will work with Michelle Pfeiffer in her new series, “The Madison.” (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)
In “The Madison,” another upcoming series in the Taylor Sheridan universe, Vasinova will appear nearby Michelle Pfeiffer as a woman named Kestrel who lives on a farm in Montana with her husband. He did not provide further details for fear of spoilers.
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“Michelle is … she's a big star. She's a rock star. She's a sweetheart,” gushed Pfeiffer.