Michael Douglas’ co-star Kathleen Turner reacts to affair bombshell

Actress Kathleen Turner has given a shocking reaction to Michael Douglas’ shocking revelation that they had an affair Case 40 years ago.

Douglas, 82, confessed to the misadventure in his upcoming memoir, One Helluva RideNoting that she and Turner had “fallen hard” on each other while making the 1984 film romancing the stone in Mexico. The Oscar-winning actor was married at the time, but was separated from his then-wife Deandra Douglas.

“Oh my God, what an uproar there was over something that happened 40 years ago!” turner, 72, told people the magazine said in a statement on Friday. He said, “I like Michael and I look forward to enjoying the book.”

The surprise was not so much that the two had a difficult love relationship, but that they managed to keep it a secret for four decades. Douglas said the couple kept the secret to protect his then-wife and young son, Cameron. He recalls being “slapped sideways” by Turner “like every other man in the world”. Turner, apparently, isn’t the type to kiss and tell everything.

during long days of filming romancing a stone, Douglas revealed that he and Turner would often go out to dinner, either alone or with a group. Later, when everyone was sleeping, he would quietly enter her hotel room. According to Douglas, even director Robert Zemeckis and co-star Danny DeVito had no idea what was happening.

“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 a stone, Jewel of the Nile, War of the RosesAnd even at the time of going to press a few years ago Kominsky method,” he writes in the memoir, which is due out October 6.

Douglas said, “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.”

“That was a lie,” he wrote.

The affair ended when the actor’s wife brought their son to visit during filming and Douglas said that Turner then “did not want to interfere” in their relationship. Douglas returned to their marriage, but they divorced in 1995. He and Turner remain close friends.

china syndrome The star later married actress Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2000. They have two children, Dylan Douglas, now 26, and Carys Zeta Douglas, now 23.

Douglas’s son Cameron, an actor, is now 48. He acted with his father last year see through water.

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