Jack Nicholson: 'I'm scared of dying alone'

The 77-year-old actor admits that he is lonely and is facing death alone because women don’t trust him.

13:43 14 January 2015

After years of philandering, 77-year-old Jack Nicholson admits that he is lonely and that he is scared of the thought of dying alone.

The Oscar winning star of Chinatown, The Shining, As Good As It Gets and The Departed who has been reportedly linked with roughly 2,000 women, says that his predicament is caused by the fact that women don’t trust him.

He told a US magazine: “I would love that one last romance but I’m not very realistic about it happening. What I can’t deny is my yearning.

“I’m definitely still wild at heart, but I’ve struck biogravity. I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this – it just doesn’t feel right at my age.

“I have had everything a man could ask for but no one could say I’m successful with affairs of the heart.

“I don’t think relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings.

We don’t always do the right thing, say the right thing and behave the way we always want to behave. No woman has ever recognised what I say as being legitimate. They don’t trust me. They think of my reputation – Jack the Jumper. I’m damned by what women think.”

Actress Anjelica Huston, the most significant of his on/off lovers and co-star of Prizzi’s Honour, agrees with him. In her autobiography, she wrote: “Pretty French girls would come up on motorbikes and say, ‘Oh, Jack, you want to ride on my bike with me?’ He’d get on and leave me standing on the pavement. I would just retire to our hotel room in tears.”

However, the final straw came when Jack got budding actress Rebecca Broussard pregnant. Anjelica said that Jack casually mentioned over dinner: “Someone is gonna have a baby.” For which, she replied: “There’s only room for one of us women in this picture, and I am going to retire from it.”