"The phone just rang out of nowhere, and it was him," the actress tells PEOPLE While fleeing the Los Angeles wildfires with her housekeeper and pets in January, Anjelica Huston was surprised to see her ex,

As she fled her home during February’s California wildfires, Anjelica Huston’s phone rang. “[Jack Nicholson] called and asked if I was all right, and if I had someplace I was staying,” she told The Guardian.

Anjelica Huston is opening up about the private battle she faced with cancer that no one knew about-until now. Huston, who dated Jack Nicholson on and off for 17 years, kept a low profile similar to what her ex has done in the last few years,