\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,\u201d Douglas wrote.<\/p>\n
Romancing The Stone actors Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas pose for a portrait in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n
\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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Basic Instinct star explained that the lie was \u201cmeant to protect my wife and son\u201d and they \u201ctold the world for 40 years\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cKathleen and I never hit a rough spot. We found each other first as friends, then as co-stars and finally as lovers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing an exhausting day of shooting in the jungle, we\u2019d go out and have a meal, or head out with the group and afterward I would sneak into her hotel room after everybody was asleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were no cameras in elevators, no assistants using cell phones to take pictures.\u201d<\/p>\n
They did not tell any of their castmates or director Robert Zemeckis, 75, but the \u201cmagic spell of the set\u201d was broken when his wife and son came to visit the set in Mexico and she \u201cgrew suspicious\u201d.<\/p>\n
Douglas has recalled how Diandra Douglas told Turner that they were \u201cstill married\u201d as she saw their separation differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that visit, Kathleen and I ended things, and I went back to Diandra. I did it for Cameron, but we shouldn\u2019t have gotten back together. After that first split it was never the same between us ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the Fatal Attraction entertainer referenced, Turner, who also appeared with him in the likes of The War of the Roses and The Jewel of the Nile, kept up their public story as she claimed she had \u201chope for\u201d something romantic between them at one point.<\/p>\n
She told Closer magazine: \u201cI was yearning, but he was still married to [to his first wife Diandra Luker] … although they were separated and so I thought there was hope for me\u201d.<\/p>\n
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