The ‘1923’ actor says she had ‘complete organ failure’ when her heart stopped. “On December 12, 2019, I died for three minutes,” she told the outlet. Initially, Vasinova thought she had contracted the flu. At the time, the U.S. hadn’t enacted lockdowns and there was little information about the Covid-19 virus, let alone its severity.
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“I went to urgent care in downtown [Los Angeles], 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,” Vasinona recalled. Around 2 a.m. that same night, the 1923 star was rushed by her uncle to the emergency room. “I felt like I was going to die,” she admitted.
From her uncle’s perspective, the chaos of the emergency room felt like it was straight out of a film. “He said people were running around me, and a tiny girl jumped on top of my chest and began pumping, pumping, pumping,” Vasinova said. “And then he saw my heartbeat on the monitor just go. Flatlined.”.
For three minutes, she had no pulse. The ER nurse, who she later found out was named Ruby, was thankfully able to restart Vasinova’s heart before she was put in an induced coma and moved to the ICU. “I had complete organ failure. 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,” Vasinova explained.
“I didn’t see the light or a tunnel but they say it can come back to you in flashbacks,” she noted. “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.’.
