Michael Douglas recounts drunken confrontation with Julia Roberts in memoir
In his memoir, Michael Douglas describes a drunken incident involving Julia Roberts at a 1990 Golden Globes party that strained their relationship, while also detailing his past substance abuse.
Actor Michael Douglas, 82, disclosed a drunken confrontation with Julia Roberts in his newly published memoir, One Helluva Ride. The incident occurred in 1990 while Douglas was producing the thriller Flatliners and Roberts was attending a Golden Globes after-party with then-boyfriend Kiefer Sutherland. Douglas said he brought his 13-year-old son Cameron to the event and, after becoming intoxicated, told Roberts to remove her arm from his son and to "take that Golden Globe and stick it where the sun don’t shine."
The next morning, Douglas’s producing partner warned him that he had crossed a line with the high-profile actress. Douglas later apologized, sending roses and meeting Roberts and Sutherland at the Flatliners office. He wrote that Roberts forgave him enough to finish the film, but their friendship did not recover.
The memoir also reveals Douglas’s past cocaine and alcohol use, describing a typical night in the early 1990s as involving five drinks and a gram of cocaine, and recounts an affair with actress Kathleen Turner during the filming of Romancing the Stone. Douglas’s personal life included a separation and later divorce from his first wife Diandra Luker, followed by his 2000 marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he has two children.