Michael Douglas threatened by a sexual harassment case : when the actor spoke to a half-word his past-dependent sex – Gala

Entertainment 10 January, 2018

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Michael Douglas is accused by a former employee of sexual harassment. He would have masturbated in front of her, facts that date back to 32 years ago. The actor, cured of cancer of the tongue contracted because of his sexual practices, does not forget the rumors about his addiction.

Michael Douglas has decided to take the bull by the horns : the actor 73-year-old has denied the allegations of sexual harassment of which it is the target before they even become public. In an interview with Deadline, published on Tuesday 9 January, he referred to the allegations made by a former employee – it asserts that he “masturbated in front of her” 32 years ago, and that he has “spoken so ribald and salacious” on the phone in front of her in conversations with friends. A statement that comes just a few weeks after the scandal, Harvey Weinstein. “I want to acknowledge the polite language, but to say that I’ve masturbated in front of her ? …It is a blatant lie, a fabrication, in any case it is the truth,” swears Michael Douglas. The actor, married to Catherine Zeta-Jones, has, however, finished by firing the employee “because of the work it performed,” but he denies that he destroyed her career in show business.

Michael Douglas does not make us forget the rumors about his past-dependent sexual. In 1992, just after having turned the sulphur Basic Instinct, it has integrated the clinic, Sierra Tucson in Arizona to treat his addiction, some might say. “At the time, people have said that I was addicted to sex because of Basic Instinct. But it was really because I was depressed after the death of my father-in-law whom I was very close. I have gone through a period of very hard”, he explained later.

In 2010, Michael Douglas learned that it was reached ofa cancer of the tongue. A disease due to his practice of cunilingus, according to his own words – it has been exposed to the human papillomavirus, the virus HPV. “I was wondering if the worries caused by the incarceration of my son Cameron has been sentenced to ten years in prison for drug possession and trafficking) had not contributed to trigger the cancer. But no, it is due to a sexually transmitted disease !”, confided to it.

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Michael Douglas,Catherine Zeta-Jones

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