Actor Steve Buscemi spent four days helping out on “The Pile” at Ground Zero in New York after the 9/11 attacks. He’s still haunted by that time. The veteran character actor, whos…
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and more than 150 film and TV productions have stamped him as instantly recognizable, could have stayed out of the fray. Yet it was his time as a former NYC firefighter that drew him down to the former World Trade Center site on 9/11. Buscemi has been reluctant to talk about his experiences, but opened up this week on the podcast. ““I was depressed, I was anxious, I couldn’t make a simple decision,” said the 63-year-old Buscemi. He worked as firefighter in the 1980s before becoming a big-time actor. Buscemi said he called the firehouse multiple times on 9/11, but after getting no answer, headed down to the site.
From there, he lasted five days of 12-hour shifts, helping where he could on the massive recovery tasks. “I haven’t experienced any health issues, and I get myself checked out — but definitely, yeah, post-traumatic stress? Absolutely,” Buscemi said. “I was only there for like five days, but when I stopped going and tried to just live my life again, it was really, really hard.”“There are times when I talk about 9/11 and I’m right back there,” he told Maron. “I start to get choked up and I realize, ‘Ah, this is still a big part of me.
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