When a female fan nearly kidnapped The Godfather star Al Pacino | Throwback

The Godfather actor Al Pacino recently revealed in his memoir that a female fan once tried to kidnap him after offering him a ride home. At the time, he was ready to jump out of the moving car, if needed.

In his newly released memoir, Sonny Boy, the 84-year-old Oscar winner recalled stepping out for a few drinks with Gene Hackman's brother, Richard Hackman "somewhere in our cross-­country journey". The actor shared that he encountered a woman who almost caused him to jump out of her car.

According to Pacino, he got so drunk that he could not find his way back home. But then a woman offered him a ride home. And without a second thought, he got into her car with her.

"But as we drove, even in my daze, I could recognise that she was not taking me back to where I was staying," the actor recalled in his book. "I said to her, 'What is going on here?' And she said straight out, 'I’m kidnapping you.'"

"I am from the South Bronx. When I see some crazy person trying to do something to me, I know how to escape," he wrote. "I said, 'No, you’re not. I’m getting out.' She said, 'No, no,' and she kept driving."

"And in an effort to make my point, I opened the door as if to jump out of the car," Pacino said. "I was a little drunk, but I was ready to leap from a moving car if I had to. This ain’t happening to me, man."

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The female fan eventually took him home and her plans went down the drain.

In the book, Pacino also opened up about an injury on his penis which he sustained when he was just 10 years old. The 84-year-old revealed that he is haunted by the thought of the childhood injury even today. 

"I was walking on a thin, iron fence, doing my tightrope dance," Pacino wrote in the book. "It had been raining all morning, and sure enough, I slipped and fell, and the iron bar hit me directly between my legs."

He recalled being hunched over and moaning in "such pain" that he could not make it home. Luckily, an older gentleman helped him get up and he took him to his aunt’s house, where a house doctor helped him with the injury. Read the full story here!