Al Pacino ‘Haunted’ By Recollections Of Childhood Damage To His Penis – The Boston Courier

Al Pacino is sparing no particulars in his new memoir, “Sonny Boy.”

Within the ebook, which was excerpted in a narrative by Individuals journal on Thursday, the Oscar-winning actor writes a couple of traumatizing childhood damage to his penis which he says nonetheless makes him “squeamish” to speak about.

Pacino remembers how he would “cheat death on a regular basis” when he was younger however nonetheless got here dangerously near maiming himself at one level.

As he recounts, “I was walking on 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 directly between my legs.”

The star of “The Godfather” writes that after his fall he was “in such pain that I could hardly walk home.” Fortunately, Pacino was discovered “groaning in the street” by an older gentleman, who carried him again to his aunt’s condominium.

Whereas ready for docs to reach, he remembers laying in mattress “with my pants completely down around my ankles as the three women in my life — my mother, my aunt, and my grandmother — poked and prodded at my penis in a semipanic.”

“I thought, God, please take me now, as I heard them whispering things to one another as they conducted their inspection,” the native New Yorker writes in “Sonny Boy.”

Pacino, now a father of 4, goes on to inform readers that his anatomy “remained attached, along with the trauma,” however that he’s nonetheless “haunted by the thought” of the accident to today.

Pacino’s childhood damage is way from the one painful reminiscence he shares within the 384-page tell-all, which was launched on Tuesday by way of Penguin Press.

In “Sonny Boy,” the “Scarface” star appears to be like again on his mom’s demise from an unintentional drug overdose in 1962, in addition to the passing of his grandfather and father-figure Vincenzo Gerardi a yr later, which Pacino describes as the “darkest period” of his life.