"The Addams Family" 28 Years Later: E! News Rewind

During a terrifying situation, Anjelica Huston received an unexpected telephone from a peculiar idiosyncratic from her past.

The Addams Family alum says her erstwhile spouse of 17 years, Jack Nicholson, reached retired to her arsenic she was fleeing a wildfire that erupted not acold from her Los Angeles home.

“I was successful a car with 3 dogs, 2 cats, and the housekeeper," Huston told The Guardian successful an interrogation published Feb. 21, "and helium called and asked if I was each right, and if I had someplace I was staying."

The 73-year-old continued, "That’s the bottommost enactment with helium and I—when the chips are down, he’s there."

Huston's location did not endure harm from the Palisades Fire that erupted Jan. 7 and destroyed much than 6,500 structures, including respective houses located conscionable 2 streets distant from hers, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. 

"My location astir burned down. It came very, precise close," Huston said, adding that she has since moved into her different residence, a ranch.

Huston dated Nicholson, 87, for 17 years until 1990 and person kept successful interaction since their breakup.

"I loved him," she said. "I deliberation successful the satellite that I was surviving in, it wasn’t disrespectful. It was however helium was, and it wasn't truthful personal. I deliberation arsenic soon arsenic I clocked that, it was each right, I knew however to support myself. It didn’t marque maine happy, but I knew what I was doing."

In her 2014 memoir Watch Me, the histrion wrote that she ended her narration with Nicholson aft helium revealed to her that helium had fathered a babe with different woman. In 1992, 2 years aft the breakup, Huston joined sculptor Robert Graham. He died successful 2008 astatine property 70 aft a agelong illness.

Huston has seldom spoken astir her longtime romance with the histrion successful the property but did constitute astir their narration successful her memoirs. In Watch Me, she said they archetypal met successful 1973 and helium gave her respective nicknames, including "Fab," "Toot" and "Mine."

The 2 enjoyed galore trips together, with Anjelica writing, "The archetypal clip I saw Las Vegas was done the unfastened model of a limousine with Jack."

The 2 starred unneurotic successful movies specified as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Prizzi's Honor, the second of which earned Huston her archetypal Oscar. Nicholson was by her side arsenic she was announced Best Supporting Actress astatine the 1986 Academy Awards. Ten years prior, Huston had accompanied the histrion to the 1976 ceremony, wherever helium won his archetypal Oscar for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The went successful to moving unneurotic again aft their breakup, costarring successful Sean Penn's 1995 movie The Crossing Guard, successful which the histrion plays the ex-wife of Nicholson's character. In 2013, Huston and the histrion reunited astatine a enactment celebrating the merchandise of her 2013 memoir, A Story Lately Told.

"Jack's idiosyncratic that I privation successful my life," Huston said successful the book. "I wouldn't beryllium blessed not having him successful my life."

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