{"id":641899,"date":"2026-10-10T05:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641899\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:10:08","slug":"michael-douglas-tells-bill-maher-about-smuggling-marijuana-slams-nepo-baby-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/641899\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas Tells Bill Maher About Smuggling Marijuana, Slams ‘Nepo Baby’ Label"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn Friday night, Michael Douglas<\/a> stopped by \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d<\/a> to promote his mammoth memoir \u201cOne Helluva Ride,\u201d chronicling the acclaimed actor and producer\u2019s rise through the Hollywood ranks, from winning the Best Picture Oscar for producing \u201cOne Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest\u201d to winning the Best Actor Oscar for \u201cWall Street\u201d to the present-day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe book also covered \u201csex, drugs<\/a> and rock and roll,\u201d as he told Maher, including how Douglas helped pay for college by smuggling marijuana across the country in fancy suitcases gifted to him by his actor-father Kirk Douglas.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou and I share something in common about getting through college together,\u201d offered Douglas, to which Maher replied, \u201cWhat it is we discovered is that when you buy pot in one place and sell it in a different place, the difference between those two amounts can be very good in living your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEspecially between East Coast and West Coast,\u201d Douglas added. \u201cWhen I turned 21, Dad wrote me a check for $10,000 and said, \u2018Great son, you\u2019re on your own.\u2019 I said, \u2018Well, Dad, this is wonderful, but I\u2019ve got a couple of years of tuition left in school\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo, Douglas took matters into his own hands. \u201cOne time I said, \u2018Dad, you remember one Christmas you bought me two beautiful Italian soft leather suitcases? Well, I found out that each one of those suitcases could hold 22 kilos of marijuana.\u2019 I would go back east to see my mom with the clothes on my back and two suitcases. This was called BD: Before Dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLater on in their talk, the HBO host gave Douglas props for working normal jobs to make money despite having a rich actor as a father, including his time working at a Mobil gas station in Connecticut at the age of 20 and earning the title of \u201cMobil Man of the Month.\u201d The topic prompted Douglas to address the \u201cnepo baby<\/a>\u201d discourse, where the children of Hollywood players have been criticized for getting a significant leg up in the industry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWith this \u2018nepo baby\u2019 thing, doesn\u2019t every single business, doesn\u2019t a father or a mother want their son or daughter to go into the business?\u201d he asked, defensively. \u201cThey have a sign that says \u2018so and so and sons,\u2019 so why pick on show business?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday night, Michael Douglas stopped by \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d to promote his mammoth memoir \u201cOne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14376,497,146,85,46,3993,9741,14377],"class_list":["post-641899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bill-maher","tag-drugs","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-michael-douglas","tag-nepo-baby","tag-real-time-with-bill-maher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}