Jack Nicholson isolated for a year in his home. Rumors speak of senile dementia – Corriere.it

Jack Nicholson shut himself up in his house, moving away from the world and from his lifelong friends who now fear that the actor – three times Oscar winner – could die alone. One of them confided it to “RadarOnline”, noting that the 85-year-old star of “The Shining” has not been seen in public for more than a year. The last time Nicholson was photographed among people was in October 2021 when he accompanied his son Ray, born 30 years ago from his relationship with Rebecca Broussard, to a basketball game. The community of Mullholland Drive in Los Angeles has made it known: “Jack does not go out anymore.” He is physically fine, but “his brain is gone,” said a source, listing among the concerns those of possible senile dementia (which in the past, in 2021, had been denied).

Commitments on set

The last film in which Nicholson had a part dates back to 2011: the romantic comedy «How Do You Know» («How ​​Do You Know») with Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson. In 2013 the actor had stopped accepting scripts: «Memory problems. She no longer remembers his jokes.’ Although he had only one wife, the actress Sandra Knight (1961-1966, a daughter, Jennifer) met on the set of «The Wax Virgin», Nicholson had many relationships among which the best known are the one with the singer of the group Mamas and Papas Michelle Phillips and that lasted seventeen years with the actress Angelica Huston, which ended due to the pregnancy of Broussard, his other well-known companion, with whom he had two children: in addition to Ray, Lorraine born in 1990.

The last years

The last official partner was the actress Lara Flynn Boyle, but the relationship ended in 2001. The actor would now spend his time locked up in his Beverly Hills villa: 300 square meters on the Hollywood hills, bought by his friend Marlon Brando for $5 million. The fear of friends is that «the spirit of the place» is influencing the social involution of a star with a once very eventful social life: even Brando, who died in 2004, spent the last few years isolated from his life: «Friends of Jack make comparisons. Ray and Lorraine visit him, but they’re still his only contact with the world.”