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Antonio Banderas Reveals His Girlfriend Saved His Life During A Heart Attack

When it comes to love in Hollywood, few couples are as earnest and sweet (and HOT, tbh) as Antonio Banderas and Nicole Kimpel.

Now, Banderas is opening up about just how magical his and Nicole's love truly is.

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While sitting down with Jimmy Kimmel last night, the actor shared the powerful story of how his girlfriend saved his life during a heart attack back in January.

"I was living life in a not nice way," he began.

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"I’m not a drinker. I was a smoker, which was probably one of the most stupid things I have ever done in my whole life."

"The night before that I had this event, my girlfriend, she had a headache and we didn’t have anything in the house. So she went out to buy something, a pain killer or whatever," Banderas recalled.

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"She bought this aspirin, which is the only thing that she found and she found the maximum one, I think it was five milligrams. She got some water, some other stuff, and at the time that she was at the cashier to pay the girl that was working there, she said, ‘You just dropped that thing over there,’ and it was the aspirin."

The asprin Kimpel almost didn't buy ended up saving her boyfriend's life the next day.

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"The next morning, when I started having the symptoms and I clearly knew what was going on, she put one of those aspirins inside of my tongue and that saved my life," he told the audience.

"So I had a second chance, and some stuff changed in my life. Since then, things that I gave a lot of importance to stopped being important. You put attention to the real things. My daughter is the real thing, my friends, my family, and my vocation as an actor."

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"In a way, this is very, it’s probably stupid to say this, but it’s probably one of the best things that happened in my life," the actor concluded.

Watch the full interview below.

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