Susan Lucci, 77, isn’t going away: Retirement is a ‘dirty word’
Susan Lucci has been in the acting game since 1970, when she stepped onto the scene in the soap opera “All My Children.”
But does the 77-year-old entertainer have plans to enter retirement anytime soon?
Absolutely not.
Lucci made the admission during an interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”
“That word is a dirty word to me,” she joked about the jaw-dropping phrase “retirement.”
“I’d love going back to Broadway. I loved doing ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ and I’ve been offered other [stage productions] but it just hasn’t been the right thing,” she continued.
The “Devious Maids” actress also gave the outlet her tips for staying healthy and fit at her age.
“I think genes and a good dermatologist are a help,” Lucci explained. “I do pilates every morning, and I’m recently learning a little yoga and some breathing.”
Lucci underwent two massive heart procedures in 2018 and 2022.
She touched on the idea of slowing down in a 2018 interview with Closer Weekly.
Lucci joked about retiring: “That is not a word in my vocabulary or my radar! I love what I do! I feel very lucky and grateful to get to do what I do,” she said.
Lucci played Erica Kane on “All My Children” from 1970 until 2011, and despite leaving the iconic drama after 40 years, she dished that she would be down to do a reboot.
“I would be open to reconsidering,” she gushed.
Her late husband, Helmet Huber, died last year at 84. They were married for 52 years.
Earlier this year, she candidly told Page Six that dating isn’t on her mind.
“No. I can’t imagine [dating right now],” Lucci said in February. “It’s been 10 months. It’s not a long time. It’s not on my radar. … He was a very hard act to follow.”
But she said she keeps busy with “amazing friends who like to be out and about. And I like to be out and about.”
She was then spotted with a much-younger man at an Upper East Side hotel in April.
However, it was revealed that it was a producer who was having a business meeting with the actress.
