Ice-T opens up about his family's 'scary' experience with COVID-19

“It’s easy to say, ‘Oh, I can’t catch it,” he toldJimmy Fallon.

“But once you know people…

I know about eight people who’ve passed away.

Ice-T’s father-in-law, Steve Austin, was one of the nonbelievers who contracted the coronavirus.

And it put him on his back,” he recalled.

As he explained, Austin remained home for nine days with COVID-19.

“They held him for about three days in the ICU.

Then they call you and make those next-of-kin calls, and that’s when it’s scary.

We might have to put him on a ventilator.

And it took him a month to make it out of the hospital, God bless him.

Now he’s home, but his lungs are damaged indefinitely.

COVID attacks your lungs and it can leave your lungs ruined.”

He then found no one around him in Arizona was taking the spread seriously.

“We came to Arizona thinking it was safer and it spiked here,” he said.

Yeah, I’m scared of your contaminated breath, okay?

Is there a problem with that?

“I’ve made it through so much in my life.

“So, yeah.

I’m aware and I’m concerned and I’m cautious.

If you wanna call that scared, call it scared.”