Al Pacino will forever be ‘haunted’ by injury to his penis: ‘Such pain that I could hardly walk home’

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Al Pacino is reflecting on an unpleasant childhood memory. The Oscar winner, 84, detailed an injury at age 10 in his new memoir “Sonny Boy.”Pacino called the incident involving his penis “one of the most embarrassing experiences of my life.”“I seemed to cheat death on a regular basis,” the actor writes in the book’s first chapter, which recounted his upbringing in New York’s South Bronx, per People. “I was like a cat with many more than nine lives.

I had more mishaps and accidents than I can count.”The story that leaves Pacino “squeamish to tell it now,” goes like this: “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 author recounted being “in such pain that I could hardly walk home.

An older guy saw me groaning in the street, picked me up, and carried me” to an aunt’s apartment. Once there, a young Pacino and his family waited for a doctor to arrive for a house call.“I lay there on the bed, 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,” Pacino wrote. “I thought, God, please take me now, as I heard them whispering things to one another as they conducted their inspection.”As the “Scarface” star put it, his penis “remained attached, along with the trauma.”He added: “To this day I’m haunted by the thought of it.”“Sonny Boy” also tells many more stories from Pacino’s childhood, including the handful of times his divorced parents were together.