Grant battled COVID-19

Hugh Grant and his wife both battled COVID-19 earlier this year.

As he appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night, Grant said both he and Anna Eberstein came down with the coronavirus earlier this year.

“I had it, my wife and I had it way back in the winter,” he said. “We have antibodies, so we're not going to get it, I don't think.”

Colbert asked if Grant had received a test and the test confirmed it was COVID-19 he was battling back in February.

“I've had an antibody test only a month ago. I still have those antibodies. So I know that's what it was. It became clear,” Grant said.

As for his symptoms, Grant first noticed something was wrong when he started profusely sweating, his “eyeballs felt about three sizes too big” and he felt as though “some enormous man (were) sitting on my chest — Harvey Weinstein or someone.”

When he discovered he couldn't smell anything, Grant realized it was probably COVID-19.

“And you start to panic because by then people were just starting to talk about this as a symptom,” said Grant, 60. “And I started sniffing flowers, nothing, and you get more and more desperate. I started sniffing in garbage cans and you want to sniff strangers' armpits because you just can't smell anything. I eventually went home and sprayed my wife's Chanel No. 5 directly into my face, couldn't smell a thing. I did go blind.”

Hugh is currently in lockdown in London with Eberstein and their children.

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