Oscar winner Anjelica Huston - the daughter of the late Irish-American director John Huston - has revealed she is four years "in the clear" following a "bout with cancer".
Los Angeles-born Huston, 73, known for her roles in Prizzi's Honor and The Dead - both directed by her father - The Witches, The Addams Family, and Agnes Browne, was diagnosed after the release of her film John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum in 2019, according to the US publication People.
"That was a very serious moment for me," she told the magazine.
"I managed to survive it, and I'm proud of myself."
Huston, who spent years of her childhood in counties Kildare and Galway, continued: "It's not something that came lightly. It came as a big shock, but it made me conscious of what I shouldn't do, of places I shouldn't go.
"One of those places was taking life too seriously. So now when the opportunity arises, I laugh, and I try not to make a big deal out of things."
Huston said she is "in the clear" and added: "I'm at the four-year mark, and that means so much to me.
"It's a fantastic thing. I'm very proud of myself, and I've been very lucky. My doctors have been wonderful."
Speaking about why she had kept her cancer diagnosis private until now, she said: "Sometimes you feel like you don't want to talk about it for the obvious reasons, but there's a lot to be said for talking about it and getting it out there and celebrating the fact that one's come through.
"Life is tenuous and wonderful. It also gives you the idea that the world is big and you can somehow match up to it. That you're ready for whatever happens."
Huston did not detail the type of cancer she was diagnosed with and wishes to keep this private, according to People.
The Hollywood star, known for playing Morticia in The Addams Family films, is also an Oscar winner, having won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for the black comedy Prizzi's Honor in 1986.
She directed and starred in 1999's Agnes Browne, based on Brendan O'Carroll's best-selling book The Mammy.
Huston has also starred in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), The Grifters (1990), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), and When in Rome (2010).
She recently played Lady Tressilian in the BBC's adaptation of the Agatha Christie murder mystery Towards Zero.
Source: Press Association
