Michael Douglas revealed in a brand new extract from his memoirs A hell of a trip that he and Kathleen Turner had a secret romantic relationship whereas filming 1984 Romance the stoneand the actress responds to her revelation.
THE Deadly attraction the actor shared an unique excerpt from his new memoir with Folks Thursday, writing that he and his then-wife, Diandra Douglas, had been separated and “each had extramarital affairs.” He wrote that “Kathleen and I fell in love with one another and started a relationship” and vowed to maintain their romance non-public.
“The chemistry I had with Kathleen Turner was so robust that the general public was sure for years that we had been in a relationship collectively whereas making the movie. We each denied it. Romancing The Stone, Jewel of the Nile, Warfare of the Rosesand even doing press a couple of years in the past for The Kominsky techniquehe mentioned, highlighting 4 initiatives they labored on collectively.
“The official story was: Sure, we admitted it, we had unimaginable chemistry. Sure, we had been each, as Kathleen put it, ‘horrible flirts,’ and sure, we had been each tempted, however nothing ever occurred between us,” Douglas wrote, in response to the excerpt. “It was a lie.”
Turner responded to Douglas’ admission Friday. “Geez, what a fuss about one thing 40 years in the past!” the actress wrote in an announcement shared with Folks. “I really like Michael and may’t wait to benefit from the e book.”
Elsewhere in his excerpt, the two-time Oscar winner mentioned they lied about their romance for 40 years “to guard my spouse and my son.” He mentioned they stored issues so secret that director Bob Zemeckis and their co-star Danny DeVito “weren’t conscious of it.”
“The reality is that when producing Romance the stoneKathleen and I fell in love with one another and started a relationship,” Douglas wrote. “It was not an in a single day affair; it arose naturally from our shut collaboration, the stress we had been beneath, the extent to which we revered and cared for one another, and our attraction to one another. Like each different man on the planet on the time, I used to be knocked down by Kathleen…”
Douglas wrote that in a scheduled go to, Diandra “turned suspicious” and spoke with Turner and “made it clear to him that we had been nonetheless married.”
“Her view on the phrases of our separation was completely different from mine. This gave Kathleen pause. She didn’t need to intervene,” he wrote. “After that go to, Kathleen and I ended issues and I moved again to Diandra.”