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“It really was like a scene from one of his movies. If it wasn’t for his quick thinking, I fear I may have died. I owe him my life,” said Woody Allen’s friend, Andrew Stein.
Woody Allen, reportedly, “leapt from his seat” to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on his friend, Andrew Stein, as he was chocking on a piece of pork at New York Italian restaurant Caravaggio.
According to Page Six, the filmmaker was having dinner with Stein, his wife Soon-Yi Previn and famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz, when the incident unfolded.
“I am embarrassed to say it, but Woody actually saved my life,” Stein told Page Six.
“I normally order fish, but this time I went for the pork, and soon after we started to eat, a piece of the meat became lodged in my throat and I was struggling to breathe.
“I started to panic. I was terrified. And then Woody came to my rescue.”
He added: “It really was like a scene from one of his movies. If it wasn’t for his quick thinking, I fear I may have died. I owe him my life.”
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The filmmaker was having dinner with Stein, his wife Soon-Yi Previn and a famed lawyer in US, Alan Dershowitz when the incident unfolded.
Apparently it isn’t the first time Annie Hall director saved a life using the manoeuvre. He rescued former Saturday Night Live producer, Jean Doumanian, in 1992, when he began chocking on a piece of bread.
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