Actor Jack Nicholson is considered one of the greatest womanizers in Hollywood history. It’s well-known that he seduced thousands of women, yet he always wanted just one…

During one of the wild parties in the eighties, actress Angelica Huston was talking to Gwyneth Paltrow, who was twelve at the time, and her parents. Gwyneth nervously watched Angelica’s longtime boyfriend, Jack Nicholson, and confessed to her:

To which Houston replied:

With reason. He scares me too.

The actress revealed this in her memoir “Watch Me,” recalling her love with Nicholson, a 17-year relationship filled with ups and downs. They met in 1973 when Angelica Huston and her friends attended Jack’s birthday party at his Los Angeles home. She had only seen him in movies before, but when she saw him in person, she felt excitement, butterflies in her stomach, and a thought flashed through her mind:

Ah! Yes… That’s a man I could fall in love with…

The evening was filled with flirting and dancing, and Nicholson asked Angelica to stay with him for the night, to which she agreed, marking the beginning of their long love story, one of the most famous in Hollywood. After spending the night together, they arranged to meet again, but Jack later asked her to cancel because of other commitments. She asked if that meant she was second, to which he jokingly replied no. Nicholson already had a reputation as a womanizer, and it’s often said that at least 2,000 women passed through his bed.

Later that evening, Angelica went out for dinner with friends to console herself and saw Nicholson in a restaurant with a “beautiful blonde” – his former girlfriend Michelle Phillips, a famous model, singer, and actress. Angelica bravely approached their table and said she only wanted to say hello, to which he spontaneously introduced her to Michelle.

She was charming. I guess that’s why they ended the relationship – Angelica wrote.

However, this event didn’t hinder Angelica Houston and Jack Nicholson from starting to see each other and falling madly in love. At first, the actress didn’t realize what a womanizer and serial cheater the man who won her over was, but she often stumbled upon evidence. Sometimes she found women’s clothing, hand cream, or some trinket… Sometimes she would take the jewelry to see if someone would claim it, but it never happened – she remembered.

Nicholson constantly offered her an on-off relationship. Sometimes he was crazy about her, sometimes he wouldn’t call, sometimes he said he had to “work,” and then he would ask her out.

At one point, Angelica put her career on hold and dedicated herself solely to their love. After experiencing a car accident in 1980, she realized she needed to change some things in her life and moved out of Jack’s house.

Throughout the eighties, the actor repeatedly proposed to Angelica and publicly complained that they couldn’t make it to the altar.

Sometimes she rejects me, sometimes she agrees, but we never get there – he said to People in 1985.

Both of us believe in preserving freedom. If you’re in a long relationship, like we were, you go through certain changes. You want to be together and have time for yourself – she wrote in her memoir.

In 1986, Angelica won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in the film “Prizzi’s Honor,” directed by her father, in which she starred alongside Jack Nicholson. Later, the actor said he had never been prouder in his life than when he saw Angelica receive the Oscar.

Finally, her career came into its own, and she was pressured by the environment to get married.

Everything went according to plan until Jack came and one of my friends said to me, “Come on, tell him.” I told him what we were discussing, and he asked me, “Are you serious about this?” I started crying, turned around, and left the house. It was humiliating for both Jack and me – the actress confessed.

At one point, Angelica left the actor for Ryan O’Neal, after which he returned to his vices – alcohol and drugs, and the actress was even arrested once for being in his mansion where drugs were found.

The couple reconciled, but another breakup followed, this time due to Jack’s infidelity. Namely, actress Karen Mayo-Chandler told Playboy that Angelica’s boyfriend “wandered through the bedroom in blue satin boxers” and that they interrupted sex only so he could eat a peanut butter sandwich. That wasn’t even the worst part – actress Rebecca Broussard was pregnant, and Jack Nicholson was the father of her child.

Angelica Huston insisted he be with the mother of the baby, so they broke up again, and Jack continued his relationship with Rebecca, with whom he had a daughter, Lorraine, in 1990, and two years later, a son, Raymond.

After 17 years, it was the definitive end of the love story between Angelica and Jack. In the same year Jack had his son Raymond, Angelica married sculptor Robert Graham, with whom she remained married until his death in 2008.

Although happily married, Jack allegedly broke her heart so much that she couldn’t see him for years. They met for the first time after the breakup in 1995, during the filming of “Crossing Guard.” At first, it was awkward for them, but then they agreed to have lunch, where Jack told Angelica:

– You and I, darling, we’re like “Love in the Time of Cholera.”

As the actress wrote, that comparison delighted her because it was one of her favorite books, by one of her favorite authors, on one of her favorite topics. “For hopeless and stubborn love,” Angelica wrote.