Actress Susan Lucci got emotional while speaking about her late husband Helmut Huber on Thursday.
The All My Children actress was asked if she would be ready to start dating again when she performs at Good Day New York in New York City.
But the 76-year-old actress, who looked stunning in red on Wednesday, had yet to say as her eyes watered and she later wiped away a tear.
“No, I’m not ready. It’s only 10 months,” the Emmy-winning TV actress said during the day, as she wore a fitted scarlet dress.
Lucci and Huber married in 1969 and were happily married. They had two children together and one grandchild.
Sad: Actress Susan Lucci got emotional while speaking about her late husband Helmut Huber on Thursday. The All My Children actress was asked if she would be ready to start dating again when she performs at Good Day New York in New York City
Hard on her: But the 76-year-old actress didn’t say anything just yet as her eyes watered and she later wiped away a tear
Huber died in March 2022 at the age of 84 on Long Island in New York.
“I miss him and he’s worth missing. He was really, really the love of my life,” she said as she sat in the studio.
The beauty then listed what she liked about him, saying he was caring, funny, smart and handsome with his cute accent.
Lucci also spoke about American Heart Month, which she hopes to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease, which is the number one killer of women.
Friday is National Wear Red Day to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke.
Tough to move on: “No, I’m not ready yet. It’s only 10 months,” the Emmy-winning TV actress said during the day, as she wore a fitted scarlet dress
The star was asked about Helmut: the host said strangers must have asked her to date a new man and Lucci said yes, they have
She has grappled with a “tremendous loss” after revealing the death of her 53-year-old husband in March.
“Helmut’s death is a tremendous loss to all who knew and loved him,” a rep for the 75-year-old actress told People.
“He was an exceptional husband, father, grandfather and friend. The family kindly asks for privacy at this incredibly difficult time.”
Lucci is best known for portraying Erica Kane on the ABC daytime drama All My Children throughout that show’s network from 1970 to 2011.
Sad loss: Lucci’s husband Helmut Huber died in March at the age of 84. Seen in 2017 in Long Island, New York
A long love: The couple married in 1969 and have two children together, Liza Huber and Andreas Huber
A representative of the family explained: “[He was] a family man, he was a loyal friend, and [he] loved her very much.
“With a roaring sense of humor, a larger than life personality, and a handy problem solver, he lived his life to the fullest. A former motorcycle racer in Austria, Mr. Huber was an elite skier and avid golfer and was a member of Garden City Golf Club and Westhampton Country Club.’
Huber, born in 1937, was appointed to the Austrian ski team. Instead, he completed an apprenticeship at the Hotel Maria Theresia, which has four ski slopes nearby.
He later studied at L’Ecole Hoteliere, a hotel and hotel management company in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was top of his class, Fox News reported.
At 21 he moved to North America, starting his career in Canada before moving to New York at 23. In 1994 he became an American citizen.
Huber reportedly improved his English by watching films by John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart, Fox News reported.
The couple met while working at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island when Susan was 22 and fresh out of college.
He then worked as manager of Lucci and became CEO of Pine Valley Productions.
Sad loss: Helmut’s death is a “great loss for all who knew and loved him. He was an exceptional husband, father, grandfather and friend,” Lucci’s publicist Jessica Sciacchitano said in a statement. Seen in December 2021
As they were: Here they were seen at the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection 2020 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in February 2020 in New York City
They go way back: The power couple during the Entertainment Tonight & ABC-TV Party at the Tavern on the Green in New York City in 1983
“I’ve been really lucky because I’ve married someone who’s smart and handsome, and he’s very confident and has a great sense of humor,” Lucci said in 2020. “And luckily, he wasn’t just supportive of what a nice word is . He was with me, really handy with me and right there. He really was rock solid and I was lucky because how could I know all this? I was 22.’
Huber had a similar feeling about his wife, telling People in 1999, “When I first saw Susie, it hit me. Even today she walks into a room and I just light it.’
In addition to his wife and children, Huber is survived by his brother, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
His daughter, Liza, has four children — Royce, 14, Brendan, 13, Hayden, 10, and Mason, 8 — with technical director Alex Hesterberg. The family announced in 2020 that Brenden was diagnosed with cerebral palsy in 2010.
It was true love: The couple met while working at the Garden City Hotel on Long Island, New York, when Susan was in her early 20s and fresh out of college. “When I first saw Susie, it hit me,” he told People in 1999. “Even today she walks into a room and I just light it up.” Seen in 1980