Michael Douglas is releasing a decades-long secret.
Over forty years after he and Kathleen Turnerraised eyebrows with their onscreen chemistry in the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, Douglas—who was separated but still legally married to Diandra Luker at the time—admitted that he and his costar did engage in an affair after denying it for years.
Douglas, who has been married to Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000, describes meeting Turner in his new memoir One Helluva Ride, detailing their mutual immediate attraction.
“The 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,” he writes in the book, out Oct 6, according to an excerpt “The official story went as follows: Yes, we confessed, we had amazing chemistry. Yes, we were both, as Kathleen said, ‘terrible flirts,’ and yes, we were both tempted, but nothing ever happened between us
But, as he noted, “That was a lie.”
According to the 82-year-old, the pair lied to protect his then-wife Luker, with whom he shares son Cameron Douglas.
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“The truth is that during the production of Romancing the Stone, Kathleen and I fell hard for each other and began a relationship,” he wrote. “It wasn’t 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.”
The Basic Instinctactor detailed how he and Turner would eat meals together before he’d sneak into her hotel room at night, the pair keeping their affair a secret from everyone on set.
The affair continued until Luker visited the movie’s set in Mexico, bringing her and Douglas’ son with her.
“Diandra grew suspicious. A woman’s intuition, I suppose,” Douglas wrote. “At some point, she was alone with Kathleen and made it clear to her that we were still married. Her view of the terms of our separation was different from mine. This gave Kathleen pause. She didn’t want to interfere.”
The Fatal Attractionstar also admitted how deeply his parents’ divorce during his childhood affected him, and how he didn’t want to put Cameron through the same thing. (Luker would eventually file for divorce in 1995.)
“Even though Diandra and I were having major problems in our relationship, we had our own son to think <a href="https://comicvibe.com/uwu-con-2026-what-to-know-about-the-mesa-pop/” title=”UwU Con 2026: What to know about the Mesa pop”>about,” Douglas explained. “After that visit, Kathleen and I ended things, and I went back to Diandra. I did it for Cameron, but we shouldn’t have gotten back together. After that first split it was never the same between us ever again.”
E! News has reached out to a rep for Turner, 72, for comment, but has not yet heard back.
After a legal back and forth between Turner and the studio 20th Century Fox, the Body Heatactress once again starred alongside Douglas in 1985’s The Jewel of the Nile, the sequel to Romancing the Stone.
For Douglas, the second project—on which Turner helped him revise the script—allowed for any unresolved feelings to be put to bed once and for all.
“As we sat across from each other, rebuilding the movie, it felt a little like we were also repairing things between us, finally getting over everything that had come before,” he wrote in One Helluva Ride.“Trading pages back and forth, negotiating over lines, laughing at scenes and picturing our characters going at each other in every way imaginable… It felt good knowing we were back on solid ground.”
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