{"id":914233,"date":"2026-10-03T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914233\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:00:09","slug":"michael-douglas-reveals-kathleen-turner-romance-actress-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914233\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas Reveals Kathleen Turner Romance, Actress Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael Douglas<\/a> revealed in a new excerpt from his memoir One Helluva Ride that he and Kathleen Turner<\/a> had a secret romantic relationship while filming 1984\u2019s Romancing the Stone<\/a>, and the actress is responding to his revelation. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Fatal Attraction actor shared an exclusive excerpt from his new memoir with People<\/a> Thursday, writing that he and his then-wife, Diandra Douglas, were separated and \u201cwere both having extramarital affairs.\u201d He wrote that \u201cKathleen and I fell hard for each other and began a relationship,\u201d and vowed to keep their romance private. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe chemistry I had with Kathleen Turner was so strong, audiences have been certain for years that we were in a relationship together while making the film. We both denied it through Romancing The Stone, Jewel of the Nile, War of the Roses, and even while doing press a few years ago for The Kominsky Method,\u201d he said, noting four projects they\u2019ve worked on together.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe official story went as follows: Yes, we confessed, we had amazing chemistry. Yes, we were both, as Kathleen said, \u2018terrible flirts,\u2019 and yes, we were both tempted, but nothing ever happened between us,\u201d Douglas wrote, per the excerpt. \u201cThat was a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTurner responded to Douglas\u2019 admission on Friday. \u201cGood heavens what a fuss about something 40 years ago!\u201d the actress wrote in a statement shared with People<\/a>. \u201cI love Michael and I look forward to enjoying the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in his excerpt, the two-time Oscar winner said they lied about their romance for 40 years \u201cto protect my wife and son.\u201d He said they kept things so under wraps that director Bob Zemeckis and their co-star Danny DeVito \u201cwere unaware.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe truth is that during the production of Romancing the Stone, Kathleen and I fell hard for each other and began a relationship,\u201d Douglas wrote. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a fly-by night affair; it grew naturally from how closely we were working together, how much pressure we were under, how much we respected and cared for one another, and how attracted we were to each other. Like every other guy in the world at the time, I was knocked sideways by Kathleen\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDouglas wrote that during a set visit, Diandra \u201cgrew suspicious,\u201d and spoke with Turner and \u201cmade it clear to her that we were still married.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHer view of the terms of our separation was different from mine. This gave Kathleen pause. She didn\u2019t want to interfere,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAfter that visit, Kathleen and I ended things, and I went back to Diandra.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas revealed in a new excerpt from his memoir One Helluva Ride that he and Kathleen Turner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,481762,13819],"class_list":["post-914233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kathleen-turner","tag-michael-douglas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}