Salma Hayek reveals she battled a near-fatal case of COVID-19
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Salma Hayek battled a near-fatal case of COVID-19 last year, the 54-year-old actress said in a new interview with Variety. Hayek said she caught the virus in the early days of the pandemic and kept it quiet – until now.
"My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad," Hayek told Variety. "I said, 'No, thank you. I'd rather die at home.'" She spent about seven weeks in isolation at home and was put oxygen. Hayek, who is married to Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault, has a 13-year-old daughter, Valentina.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.