Michael Douglas reveals in a new excerpt from his memoir One Helluva Ride He and Kathleen Turner had a secret romantic relationship during the shooting of the 1984 film romancing the stoneAnd the actress is reacting to this revelation.
fatal Attraction The actor shares an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir People On Thursday, he wrote that he and his then-wife Deandra Douglas had separated and “were having an extramarital affair.” He wrote that “Kathleen and I fell in love with each other and began a relationship,” and vowed to keep their romance private.
“My chemistry with Kathleen Turner was so strong that audiences were convinced for years that we were in a relationship while making the film. We both denied this Romancing the Stone, Jewel of the Nile, War of the RosesAnd even at the time of going to press a few years ago Kominsky method,” he said, referring to the four projects they have worked on together.
“The official story goes like this: Yes, we confessed, we had amazing chemistry. Yes, we were both, as Kathleen said, ‘terrible flirts,’ and yes, we were both wooed, but nothing ever happened between us,” Douglas wrote, according to the excerpt. “That was a lie.”
Turner responded to Douglas’ admission Friday. “Oh my God, what an uproar there was over something that happened 40 years ago!” The actress wrote in a statement shared People. “I like Michael and look forward to enjoying the book.”
Elsewhere in his piece, the two-time Oscar winner said he lied about his romance for 40 years “to protect my wife and son.” He said that he kept things so secret that director Bob Zemeckis and his co-star Danny DeVito were “unaware”.
“The truth is that during production romancing the stoneKathleen and I fell in love with each other and began a relationship,” Douglas wrote. “This was not an overnight affair; It grew naturally from how closely we were working together, how much pressure we were under, how much we respected and cared for each other, and how attracted we were to each other. Like every other boy in the world at that time, Kathleen had cast me aside….”
Douglas wrote that during a set visit Diandra “became suspicious” and spoke to Turner and “made it clear to him that we were still married.”
He wrote, “Her view of the terms of our separation was different from mine. This gave Kathleen pause. She did not want to interfere.” “After that trip, Kathleen and I ended things, and I went back to Deandra.”