Jack Nicholson exhibits up when it issues.
The legendary actor’s ex-girlfriend, Anjelica Huston, revealed that he reached out to her when she was evacuating her dwelling final month in the course of the Los Angeles wildfires.
“I was in a car with three dogs, two cats, and the housekeeper, and he called and asked if I was all right, and if I had someplace I was staying,” Huston, 73, stated about Nicholson, 87, in an interview with The Guardian printed Friday.
“That’s the bottom line with he and I – when the chips are down, he’s there,” she added.
Huston additionally gave an replace on her dwelling. “My house almost burned down,” she stated. “It came very, very close. My electricity and water and power are still off, but we were safe.”
The “Addams Family” actress dated Nicholson on-and-off from 1973 to 1990, throughout which they co-starred within the movies “Prizzi’s Honor,” “The Last Tycoon” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice.”
Nicholson was untrue to Huston throughout their relationship. They broke up for good in 1990 after he fathered a toddler with one other lady.
“I loved him,” Huston advised The Guardian whereas reflecting on why she stayed with the “Chinatown” actor for thus lengthy regardless of his infidelity. “I think in the world that I was living in, it wasn’t disrespectful. It was how he was, and it wasn’t so personal.”
She continued, “I think as soon as I clocked that, it was all right, I knew how to protect myself. It didn’t make me happy, but I knew what I was doing.”
“I did what I wanted to do, and I did it with sureness,” Huston added. “If I wanted something, I knew how to go after it, so it wasn’t as though anything was being done to me. I wasn’t a wilting flower.”
Two years after splitting from Nicholson, Huston married sculptor Robert Graham. They stayed collectively till Graham’s loss of life in 2008.
Nicholson, in the meantime, dated actress and mannequin Rebecca Broussard for 4 years after his relationship with Huston ended. He later dated actress Lara Flynn Boyle from 1999 to 2004.
The Oscar winner has six kids, together with actors Lorraine Nicholson and Ray Nicholson, with 5 completely different ladies.
After retiring from appearing in 2010, Nicholson made a uncommon public look on the “Saturday Night Live” fiftieth anniversary particular final weekend.
He was one of many many celebs within the crowd, and briefly appeared on digital camera to introduce a musical act from Adam Sandler.
Nicholson has saved a low profile after his final movie look within the 2010 rom-com “How Did You Know.”