Michael Douglas reveals he had a torrid affair with one of his co-stars while filming \u201cBasic Instinct.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the 1992 erotic thriller, the actor portrayed a homicide detective who struck up a sizzling relationship with the prime suspect \u2014 a wealthy heiress played by Sharon Stone \u2014 while investigating a murder.<\/p>\n
The steamy sex scenes in the movie were a sensation at the time, leading to speculation that the two were having an affair in real life. <\/p>\n
Douglas is finally setting the record straight<\/a>, however, revealing in his new memoir, \u201cOne Helluva Ride,\u201d<\/a> that he was actually seeing another co-star: Jeanne Tripplehorn, who played his therapist.<\/p>\n Michael Douglas revealed he had an affair with Jeanne Tripplehorn on the set of the 1992 thriller \u201cBasic Instinct.\u201d \u00a9TriStar Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n At the time of the film\u2019s release, many assumed that Douglas was having an affair with another female co-star, Sharon Stone, due to their steamy scenes together (as seen above). \u00a9TriStar Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is, I fell very hard for Jeanne despite our nearly 20-year age difference,\u201d the Oscar winner \u2014who was married to his first wife, Diandra Luker, at the time \u2014 admits in his tome.<\/p>\n \u201cIn fact, I was ready to officially leave my wife for Jeanne. I was crazy about her.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cFatal Attraction\u201d star noted, however, that he knew ditching nearly two decades of marriage and jumping right into another serious relationship would be the \u201cworst thing\u201d for him.<\/p>\n Tripplehorn played Douglas\u2019 therapist in the erotic thriller (as seen above in scenes from the film). Everett Collection \/ Everett Col<\/p>\n \u201cI fell very hard for Jeanne despite our nearly 20-year age difference,\u201d Douglas admits in his book. \u00a9TriStar Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \u201cMy relationship with Jeanne lasted through production, then we went our separate ways,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I will always think of her as an amazing actress and a truly terrific woman that I was very fortunate to spend time with.\u201d<\/p>\n Douglas, now 82, eventually divorced Luker. He\u2019s been married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, 57, since 2000.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The trio promoted the movie at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992, but the affair had ended by then. Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images<\/p>\n The Oscar winner\u2019s new memoir, out now, is titled \u201cOne Helluva Ride.\u201d Grand Central Publishing via AP<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Triplehorn, now 63, married actor Leland Orser, 66, in 2000.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the \u201cBig Love\u201d alum did not respond to Page Six\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n \u201cOne Helluva Ride\u201d is out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Douglas reveals he had a torrid affair with one of his co-stars while filming \u201cBasic Instinct.\u201d In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[223,236,2865,23485,91,88,44415,206,17774],"class_list":["post-872869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-books","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-memoirs","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-michael-douglas","tag-movies","tag-sharon-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}