Salma Hayek is still recovering. The 54-year-old actress opened up about a COVID-19 diagnosis in the past year that was described as near fatal in an interview with Variety. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Salma Hayek In the discussion, Salma revealed that she kept the battle quiet up until this point, but it was incredibly serious. Find out what she said… Salma revealed that she was diagnosed in the early days of the pandemic. “My doctor begged me to go to the hospital because it was so bad.
I said, ‘No, thank you. I’d rather die at home,’” she said. She also spent about seven weeks in isolation in a room of the house she shares with her husband, François-Henri Pinault, and their 13-year-old daughter, Valentina.