Michael Douglas opens up about his on-set affairs

Michael Douglas on His Relationships

Michael Douglas reflects on how quickly he married his first wife, Diandra. They met at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 inauguration, and he proposed about a month later. They married 60 days after meeting. Douglas says their relationship faced difficulties, including his struggles with alcohol and drugs.

The conversation turns to his affairs while filming. Douglas says he and Diandra were already living apart when he had an affair with Kathleen Turner during Romancing the Stone. He jokes, “I’m selling a book, man,” and says he expected readers to react with an “I knew it.”

He also clears up speculation about Basic Instinct: he says his affair was with Jeanne Tripplehorn, while Sharon Stone was his “cover.”

Asked whether his current wife, Catherine, knew the stories, Douglas says she had received the book only two days earlier and leaves her reaction “up to Catherine.”

Personalities

• Michael Douglas
• Josh Horowitz (interviewer)