Rita Wilson says she was “scared” when she and husband Tom Hanks got coronavirus. The couple, both 63, announced in March that they had been diagnosed with Covid-19 while in Australia working on an Elvis Presley biopic and were treated in hospital.
Wilson told The Guardian: “It was early March, so people weren’t social distancing yet. But I was already doing no handshakes, no hugging, trying to take my own measures. “Then on the plane to Australia, I was like Lady Macbeth – I couldn’t clean everything enough!
The flight attendants were like, ‘What is with this lady?’ I had wipes, sanitiser, I wiped down everything.” She said of the symptoms: “We both had a high fever and were extremely achy.