Susan Lucci is opening up about how her heart is recovering after an emergency procedure and the death of her husband . Sitting down with ET's Rachel Smith for "The grEaTs," the 77-year-old actress provided fans with an update on how she is doing as she embraces this next chapter of her life -- and whether or not she is open to finding love again after losing her 84-year-old husband in 2022. For the All My Children star, who was married to Helmet Huber from 1969 until his death, it would be extremely difficult to put herself back out there after already finding the love of her life at just 23 years old.
"I know everybody's different, I can't imagine it, you know?" Lucci -- who previously shared that the casting producers of The Golden Bachelorette reached out to her about starring in the reality show -- said of dating again. "Never say never, but I just can't imagine [it]." Lucci shares that, in the two years since her Austrian-born chef husband passed away, she has devoted a good chunk of time to reading about coping with the loss of a spouse and the various ways to move on after.
She says that, while she knows finding love after loss is entirely possible, it's not the path forward for her -- at least not at this time. "It is different for everyone and, you know, part of it's a choice to get up off the floor and put one foot in front of the other. I mean, it is better to go ahead with your life," she shared with ET.
"The other thing is that I know that this life is a gift, i.