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Michael Douglas is confirming the rumor that has followed him for decades.
In an excerpt from his upcoming memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” the 82-year-old actor revealed that he and Kathleen Turner had an affair while filming “Romancing the Stone,” a rumor he denied for more than 40 years.
“Kathleen was smart, funny and sexy, with a deep, soulful voice that became her hallmark,” he wrote in an excerpt. People. “I liked her immediately and we were immediately attracted to each other.”
He said, although he was married to Deandra Luker at the time, “things were bad at home” and both he and Luker “were having extramarital affairs.”
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Douglas admitted that he and Turner had an affair while filming “Romancing the Stone”. (20th Century Fox/Getty Images)
Douglas wrote that they left home to film the 1984 movie “still technically married, but separated” and that while audiences “were convinced for years that we were in a relationship together” while making the movie, they denied it, even during production of the sequel and years later when they reunited on “The Kominsky Method”.
The two told the public that although they “had amazing chemistry” and were “both tempted”, they never acted on their feelings.
He wrote, “The truth is that during the production of Romancing the Stone, Kathleen and I fell in love with each other and began a relationship.” “It wasn’t a night-and-day 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 man in the world at that time, Kathleen had cast me aside.”
She said that to protect Luker and her son Cameron, they both kept their affair a secret for 40 years.
Turner and Douglas kept their affair a secret for 40 years to protect their son and ex-wife. (John Lamperski/WireImage)
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The affair was kept a secret from everyone, including the film’s director Bob Zemeckis and her co-star Danny DeVito, with Douglas saying that the two would go out to dinner together after filming or he would “sneak into her hotel room after everyone was asleep.”
“There were no cameras in the elevator, no assistants using cell phones to take pictures,” he said. “As Jack and Joan were falling in love, Kathleen and I were keeping the chemistry alive.”
Douglas and Turner were falling in love because their characters were doing the same thing on screen. (Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
Turner and Douglas decided to end things when Luker visited them on the set with Cameron and made it clear to him [Turner] That we’re still married.”
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After stories circulated about Douglas’s new admission, Turner said in a statement People”Oh my God, what a fuss there was about something from 40 years ago! I like Michael, and I look forward to enjoying the book.”
“Romancing the Stone” stars Turner as Joan, a romance novelist who travels to Colombia to rescue her sister from smugglers and meets bird hunter Jack Colton, played by Douglas, who agrees to help her.
Douglas and Looker finalized their divorce in 2000, after which he married Catherine Zeta-Jones. (Arnold Gerocki/Getty Images)
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Luker eventually filed for divorce in 1995, and after 23 years of marriage, their divorce was finalized in 2000, with the actor writing, “We were never the same after that first split.”
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He married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in November 2000. He has since had two children with the “Wednesday” actress: son Dylan, 26, and daughter Carys, 23.