Tatum O’Neal is looking back on her stroke that happened in 2020.

The 59-year-old actress, who is the youngest Oscar winner in history, spoke to People about how a near fatal overdose led her to experience a severe stroke that almost killed her.

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Tatum admits to the outlet that she “almost died” from what happened to her.

“I’ve been through a lot,” she added, detailing that in the past three years she has been in daily therapy, working with her doctors to regain her memories and regain her strength in what are considered simple things – like the ability to read and write.

Tatum was also diagnosed with aphasia, the same disorder that Bruce Willis was recently diagnosed with.

Her eldest son, Kevin McEnroe, then shared how he and his siblings – brother Sean, and sister Emily - have been prepared for a call that she had passed away.

“It was the phone call we’d always been waiting for,” Kevin shared. “She also had a cardiac arrest and a number of seizures. There were times we didn’t think she was going to survive.”

He adds that there were times were “it was touch and go. I had to call my brother and sister and say she was thought to be blind, deaf and potentially might never speak again.”

“She didn’t know where she was. She couldn’t say, ‘I’m scared.’”