Actress Danielle Vasinova died throughout her battle with COVID-19 — but lived to inform the story.
The star of the “Yellowstone” prequel “1923” and the upcoming spinoff “The Madison” has revealed that her coronary heart stopped for 3 minutes whereas hospitalized due to the illness.
“On Dec. 12, 2019, I died for three minutes,” Vasinova, 42, advised Individuals in a brand new interview revealed Thursday.
Having contracted the illness earlier than it was widespread within the US, Vasinova mentioned she thought she “was coming down with the flu.”
“I went to urgent care in downtown L.A., and they decided it was strep and sent me home with some antibiotics. But by the next day, I could barely walk. My legs wouldn’t move. It was bizarre.”
“I felt like I was going to die,” she recalled.
Her uncle rushed her to the emergency room. He advised her that what occurred subsequent was akin to a scene from a film.
“He said people were running around me, and a tiny girl jumped on top of my chest and began pumping, pumping, pumping. And then he saw my heartbeat on the monitor just go. Flatlined,” Vasinova continued.
For 3 minutes, her coronary heart stopped beating. An ER nurse repeatedly tried to revive the actress till they lastly discovered a pulse. She was then moved to the ICU and put in an induced coma.
“I had complete organ failure,” Vasinova added. “I went from young and healthy to this infection that completely took over my body all of a sudden. It just came on, and it just rocked my world.”
Whereas she doesn’t have any recollections from the three minutes she was legally lifeless, she mentioned she’s felt a connection to the next energy and angels round her because the traumatic ordeal.
“I didn’t see the light or a tunnel, but they say it can come back to you in flashbacks,” she went on.
“I did, however, start to see a lot of angel numbers everywhere. I would see sequences like 5555, 7777. It was bizarre, but something was telling me, ‘There’s something more for you. You weren’t meant to go just yet. You’re meant to do something else.’”
The actress continued, “It’s hard to even describe how I feel, but I’m so much more connected. This felt like the turning point in my life. The death and the rebirth. I know to take nothing for granted. Life is so precious, and it is such a gift. We’re here to do some good in the world, to be of service, and to be forever grateful.”
After recovering from COVID-19, Vasinova was in a position to meet the nurse liable for bringing her again to life.
“I found out her name was Ruby, so I went back to the hospital with a bracelet with a tiny ruby in it just to say, ‘Thank you for saving my life,’” she advised Individuals.
“I didn’t know if she was going to recognize me, but when she opened the door, I started crying, and she just lost it. She told me she never knows who lives or dies after they get transferred. She just gave me the biggest hug. Because I’d been gone for three full minutes. But I came back.”
Vasinova is among the newest actors to be introduced as becoming a member of the forged of “The Madison,” which stars Michelle Pfeiffer.
The most recent installment in Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” universe, “The Madison” is described as a “heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.”
Vasinova will play Kestrel, “an indigenous woman married to a Montana rancher who lives with her family on a double-wide trailer on their ranch.”