When Michael Douglas got the chance to meet his future wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, he broke up with the five women he was casually dating.
The 82-year-old Game star, who was divorced from his ex-wife Deandra Luker when he started dating Kathryn in 1999, had affairs on the set of him with co-stars including Romancing the Stone’s Kathleen Turner and Basic Instinct’s Jean Tripplehorn.
After his first marriage ended, Michael admitted he went a little wild and his future wife warned him he couldn’t see anyone else – which required some painful phone calls.
Speaking to UK chat show host Graham Norton, Michael confessed: “It was very easy to get comfortable with co-stars and sometimes it led to getting carried away. When I courted Katherine she said to me, ‘If we’re doing this, you’ve got to clean up your act.’ I was divorced and I was seeing some other people at the time, so I had to call five women to resolve the matter.”
The star’s colorful life is documented in her new memoir, One Helluva Ride, which Michael says includes lots of juicy stories about her past.
He added, “There were a lot of stories about the movies I’d made, but then the producer in me took over and I thought, ‘Let’s go for shit!’
Asked about the process of writing the memoir, he added, “I thought maybe now was the time. My father (Kirk Douglas) wrote nine books, including a great autobiography, so I started thinking about the legacy. It was fantastic to go back. I’d forgotten a lot.”
One Helluva Ride was released earlier this month.