Michael Douglas. (Photograph by Dominique Charriau/WireImage through Getty Photos)
Michael Douglas doesn’t thoughts being an older dad, even when he’s often mistaken for his youngsters’ grandfather.
The Oscar winner, 79, recounted a clumsy occasion when he visited one among his youngsters in school. “This isn’t grandfather’s day, that is mother and father’ day. I say ‘I’m a guardian!’,” he recalled in an interview with The Telegraph printed on Saturday, April 20. “That was a tough one.”
Douglas shares daughter Carys Zeta Douglas, 20, and Dylan Michael Douglas, 23, with spouse Catherine Zeta-Jones, to whom he has been married since 2000. He additionally shares son Cameron Douglas, 45, with ex-wife Diandra Luker.
Based on Michael, his 25-year marriage to Zeta-Jones has been a “good trip,” and he believes increasing his household later in life made him a greater father. Nevertheless, this doesn’t imply he has zero regrets about his strategy to parenting.
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“Cameron suffered lots from that point,” Michael advised The Telegraph of his eldest son. “I used to be simply overwhelmed and overloaded by my work. And household was actually taking third place after work, our nation after which the household, versus when Catherine and I received collectively. And also you’ve achieved sufficient work already that you just had been trying extra to benefit from the alternative and the children.”
In Might 2023, Cameron spoke about how his struggles with drug habit and an nearly seven-year stint in jail from 2010 to 2016 broken his relationship along with his father. “My father, except for me, was in all probability the connection that took the longest to type of, you already know, discover its method again to — I believe a spot the place each of us felt fulfilled and felt protected,” Cameron solely advised Us Weekly final 12 months.
Dylan Michael Douglas, Michael Douglas, Carys Zeta-Douglas. (Photograph by Barry King/Getty Photos)
“It was years of my habits [that added to] us probably not having a lot of a relationship [starting] since I used to be an early teen,” Cameron advised Us. “It was by no means a nasty relationship, you already know, we at all times type of had fun collectively and clearly love one another. It simply wasn’t a lot there as a result of I wasn’t obtainable.”
He added that it “took a short while for [Douglas] to type of belief me once more,” however he was “grateful” the 2 might now “take pleasure in one another’s firm regularly.”
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As for his youngest two youngsters, Michael advised The Telegraph on Saturday that he and Zeta-Jones had been having fun with being “empty nesters” now that the children have both moved out or gone to school. Nevertheless, he admitted that because the years go by, it has develop into extra of a problem to maintain up with the kids.
“I’m simply sliding by simply now,” he stated. “I’ve reached the purpose by way of snowboarding and a few different actions that I’m now not capable of sustain with them on any foundation. However it’s good having any person take care of you and say, ‘You OK, dad?’”
He continued, “This has been a good time for me however I’ve been very lucky. Catherine and I’ve been collectively, it’ll be 25 years this 12 months. So it’s been a great trip and I’ve been very lucky, proud of the alternatives that I’ve made and now am form of actually backing off and smelling the roses a bit extra, touring extra. We’re empty nesters so we will get round much more than we used to elevating two youngsters in your fifties, sixties, and into your seventies.”
Douglas went on to say that Dylan and Carys have introduced him and Zeta-Jones a “great quantity of pleasure,” calling them “extraordinary beings.” “I in all probability actually should thank their mum and Catherine,” he added. “They’ve simply been a pleasure. We’ve had no points per se. Had a beautiful, pretty life collectively. Dylan is totally out of faculty now and Carys has received yet another 12 months of faculty.”
