Anjelica Huston’s heartache
Huston's husband died three years ago, and for a time she thought she'd never be happy without him.
Three years after her husband’s death, Anjelica Huston is just starting to cope with her loss, said Chrissy Iley in the London Telegraph. “It’s a long process,” she admits. There’s a reason widows were forced to wear black veils in the old days. “For a year you shouldn’t be looked on, and you shouldn’t look on yourself. You feel very raw.” Her 16-year marriage to sculptor Robert Graham was famously contented, and for a time she thought she’d never be happy without him. But, slowly, she’s learning to enjoy things again. “I feel it’s like the blood rushing back to my brain.”
At 60, Huston is tempted to get herself surgically spruced up. “A tiny bit of Botox here and there is not the end of the world. It’s the stitching thing I don’t know about. It’s a slippery slope.” But as Huston gets older, she feels less inclined to criticize other people’s ways of coping with aging. “We all do what we have to do,” she says. “The other night I came down after a party and there was a Russian doorman at the building. He said, ‘I saw some pictures of you in the Post today with Joan Rivers.’ And I said, ‘How do we look?’ ‘Joan very good, you bad.’ So it’s all relative.”
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