Salma Hayek reveals near-fatal fight with COVID-19 Entertainment Thu, May 20, 2021 American actress Salma Hayek revealed details of her fight with a severe case of COVID-19 through 2020. She said she resisted the doctors' advice to go to the hospital to receive treatment. "My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad," the 54-year-old star of the upcoming thriller House of Gucci told Variety in a Zoom interview on Wednesday, May 19. "I said, 'No, thank you. I'd rather die at home.'" The trade outlet, Gucci, said Salma Hayek spent most of 2020 recovering from a near-fatal case of COVID-19, while she got herself quarantined for seven weeks in a room of her house. She was put on oxygen at one point.