The star played Broadway producer Eileen Rand for all two seasons.

“I wasn’t very happy when I was on that show,“Huston told PEOPLE.

It was a cold winter.”

SMASH – “The Cost of Art” Episode 104 – Pictured: Anjelica Huston as Eileen Rand

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It was hard, really.

I didn’t really have a good time making it.”

Graham, whom Huston wed in 1992, died in December 2008 at the age of 70.

Robert Graham and Anjelica Huston during Hammer Museum Gala at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Robert Graham and Anjelica Huston.Alexandra Wyman/WireImage

“Bob was very special and very irreplaceable,” Huston said.

“A lot’s gone on since Bob died.”

But Huston is now four years “in the clear” of the diagnosis.

Anjelica Huston attends the 2021 LACMA Art + Film Gala presented by Gucci at Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 06, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

“That was a very serious moment for me,” Huston told PEOPLE in a separate interview.

“I managed to survive it, and I’m proud of myself.”

“I’m at the four-year mark, and that means so much to me,” Huston added.

Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston

“I’ve been very lucky.

My doctors have been wonderful.”