While fans know Michael Douglas for his work in front of the screen, he feels lucky for the life he’s built behind it too.
“I found the love of my life in Catherine Zeta-Jones,” the Oscar winner wrote in his memoir One Helluva Ride, released October 2026, “I’ve been blessed with a remarkable and loving family, three amazing children Cameron, Dylan and Carys, and two grandchildren Lua and Ryder, as well as wonderful, loyal friends that have been with my for decades, and some much longer than that and a unique dual career as both an actor and a producer spanning over a hundred films and television series.”
However, Michael has also been open about challenges he’s faced, including divorce, rehab for substance abuse in the ’90s, his 2010 cancer battle and Cameron’s time in prison. But through it all, he continued, he’s “learned to put as much time into my family as friends as I once put into my work.”
