OHMYGOSSIP — Jack Nicholson used to sleep with a hammer under his pillow. At the time, the actor was involved in a bizarre Hollywood love triangle, was under the influence of drugs, and worried he’d be killed.
The 76-year-old’s dirt is dished in the blockbuster tell-all Nicholson: A Biography, slated to be published Oct. 29.
Jack feared for his life while involved with The Mamas and The Papas singer Michelle Phillips.
Nicholson was introduced to Phillips in 1970 after the sexy blonde singer had just divorced Dennis Hopper, Nicholson’s Easy Rider costar.
Hopper and Phillips had managed to stay married for only eight days before a physical brawl destroyed their relationship.
When Jack and Michele got together, was convinced Hopper would come after him seeking bloody revenge. Jack, 36 at the time, was so paranoid, he slept with “a hammer under his pillow,” according to best-selling author Marc Eliot.
When the two actors finally met to talk about Jack’s relationship with Michelle, Hopper just laughed it off.
Eliot says that Jack struggled with a gay secret. While under the influence of LSD, the actor experienced “castration fantasies” along with “homoerotic fear fantasies”.