Jack Nicholson once explained, \u201cWith my sunglasses on, I\u2019m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I\u2019m fat and 60.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comment was made some 28 years ago, long before Nicholson\u2019s current life laying low and, as reported in The Post, \u201clooking wobbly\u201d at the Carlyle in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
As he nears 90, a recent photo showed him walking with a cane<\/a>. But over the course of his hell-raising, women-chasing, drug-consuming decades in the 70s and 80s, he spent a lot of time wearing sunglasses.<\/p>\n Jack Nicholson said that he needs his sunglasses on to be Jack Nicholson. Former girlfriend and mother of his child Rebecca Broussard seems to agree. Getty Images<\/p>\n The iconic Jack Nicholson of yore has been a model for every charismatic, sometimes toxic, male star ever since \u2013 Nicholson\u2019s stretch of Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills is not known as Bad Boy Drive for nothing \u2013 as he lived a life rife with drugs, sex and debauchery.<\/p>\n The recently unearthed example of his outrageous behavior came courtesy of Ben Dreyfuss, posting a Nicholson tale on X<\/a> about his mother, Jeramie Rain.<\/p>\n According to Dreyfuss \u2014 son of Rain and actor Richard Dreyfuss \u2014 his mother was dating Nicholson when he was being stalked by a woman from \u201cIowa or wherever.\u201d <\/p>\n Former girlfriend of Nicholson, Jeramie Rain, allegedly caught the star receiving oral sex from an alleged stalker. WireImage<\/p>\n The apparent stalker turned up in Los Angeles and knocked on Nicholson\u2019s door, then found her way into the house leaving Rain and Nicholson understandably concerned. They all wound up in the living room, then Rain was dispatched to call her boyfriend\u2019s agent and assistant for help.<\/p>\n When she returned, the living room was empty. Rain found Nicholson in the bedroom, allegedly receiving oral sex from the stalker. She understandably flipped out, saying to Nicholson, \u201cWhat the f\u2013k is wrong with you?\u201d<\/p>\n Nicholson is said to have replied, \u201cShe offered me a blowjob. I wasn\u2019t going to say no!\u201d<\/p>\n Rain promptly broke up with the three-time Oscar winner.<\/p>\n Ben Dreyfuss with Richard Dreyfuss, dad of Ben and ex-husband of Jack Nicholson\u2019s former girlriend. Frazer Harrison<\/p>\n Ben Dreyfuss put up an outrageous X post anout his mom and Jack Nicholson. @bendreyfuss\/X<\/p>\n Marc Eliot, author of the definitive \u201cNicholson: A Biography<\/a>,\u201d is not surprised. \u201cJack is a raging heterosexual,\u201d Elliot deadpanned to The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cWomen are his raison d\u2019etre. That blowjob was the sign of affection that he is always looking for but never receives.\u201d<\/p>\n Eliot attributes at least some of Nicholson\u2019s carnal looseness \u2014 and what he claims to be emotional neediness \u2014 to finding out age 37, in 1974, the woman he thought was his sister was, in fact, his biological mother.<\/p>\n Making it sting all the more, Nicholson followed her to Los Angeles in pursuit of a better life than he had in Neptune, New Jersey, where they grew up.<\/p>\n Anjelica Houston had a two decades or so, on-again, off-again relationship with Jack Nicholson. While in his house, she got busted for cocaine possession, but the cops never found Nicholson\u2019s stash. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cThat great deception killed his trust in women,\u201d said Elliot of the shocking revelation, delivered to Nichlson via a reporter from Time magazine<\/a> who found it out while working on an article about while \u201cChinatown\u201d was in production. \u201cPlus he liked to have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n In his book, Eliot writes about Nicholson\u2019s \u201cround the clock drinks, drugs, sex \u2026 and hot, willing girls who loved to get just as high as the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n Nicholson\u2019s bold-face conquests include Diane Keaton, Joni Mitchell and Margaret Trudeau (mother of Justin Trudeau). One of his former sex-pals, the actress Karen Mayo-Chandler once gushed to Playboy that Nicholson is \u201ca nonstop sex machine. He\u2019s into fun and games \u2026 like spanking, handcuffs, whips<\/a> and Polaroid pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n Jack Nicholson was dating Houston when he took up with Rebecca Broussard. But he managed to be directed by John Houston and co-star with Anjelica, beforce things unraveled. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Nicholson was only married once, to actress Sandra Knight between 1962 and 1968. They have one daughter together, Jennifer. <\/p>\n When Nicholson spoke to Playboy, he told the magazine that he once spent three months in the 1960s, always nude in his house, \u201cno matter who came by.\u201d<\/p>\n Less understanding about his free and easy lifestyle was Anjelica Houston. She was romantically tied to Nicholson for 17 years, but the final straw was when he took up with actress and model Rebecca Broussard and got her pregnant in 1990.<\/p>\n \u201cJack didn\u2019t exactly introduce it as \u2018This is the greatest news,\u2019\u201d Houston, who costarred with Nicholson in \u201cPrizzi\u2019s Honor,\u201d directed by her father, John Houston, told Vulture<\/a>. \u201cHe said, \u2018Someone is having a baby.\u2019 Then he kind of laid it on me. I was really nice about it \u2026 But by the time I got home, I was really furious.\u201d<\/p>\n Nicholson dated \u201cTwin Peaks\u201d star Lara Flynn Boyle from 1999 to 2004. They are pictured at a 2001 red carpet premiere for \u201cThe Pledge.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n That Broussard would get pregnant \u2014 she and Nicholson have two children together, Ray and Lorraine \u2014 should not come as a shock. As he claimed in Rolling Stone, Nicholson never bought a condom in his life<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nicholson bragged to the magazine that over the course of 2006 \u2014 when he was, himself, 69 \u2014 he\u2019d \u201ccovered the territory from 21 to 61,\u201d in terms of the ages of women he\u2019d bedded.<\/p>\n Despite his prowess, it\u2019s not like Nicholson was the easiest guy in the world to go out with. Houston was in his house in 1977 when he and Roman Polanski dropped by for a photo shoot. <\/p>\n