Michael Douglas is clearing the air about his past, and he’s not holding back. In a tense new interview with the Sunday Times tied to his memoir“One Helluva Ride,”the 82-year-old actor shut down years of rumors about sex addiction, claiming a British tabloid editor completely fabricated the story back in the nineties. He also pushed back on the suggestion that he ended relationships with multiple women before marrying Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000, telling the reporter that’s not how it went down.
But the memoir does include a major revelation: Douglas confirms a secret four-decade-old affair with“Romancing the Stone”co-star Kathleen Turner. So while he’s denying the rumors he’s been fighting for years, he’s also revealing a chapter of his life that stayed hidden until now. Talk about a plot twist.
The interview got particularly tense when the reporter asked how he won Zeta-Jones back after their 2013 split. Douglas clearly wasn’t interested in going there. Whether you’re Team“he’s earned the right to set the record straight”or Team“celebrities should just answer the questions,”one thing’s for sure: this memoir is giving us plenty to talk about. What would you do if someone wrote a completely made-up story about you and it stuck for 30 years?
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