Michael Douglas unveiled he was after mistaken for his children’s grandfather while visiting a single of his kids at school.
The Oscar winner, 79, recalled the uncomfortable minute in a new interview with the Telegraph, admitting that the ordeal was “rough.”
“This is not grandfather’s day, this is parents’ working day. I say ‘I am a father or mother!’,” he informed the outlet. “That was a rough just one.”
The “Fatal Attraction” actor didn’t specify no matter if the mishap took position though he was checking out his 23-12 months-outdated son, Dylan, or his 21-calendar year-old daughter, Carys.
He shares each children with his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, to whom he’s been married given that 2000.
Carys at this time attends Brown University in Rhode Island, when Dylan graduated from the exact college or university in 2022.
Douglas also shares 45-yr-aged son Cameron with his ex-spouse, Diandra Luker, to whom he was married from 1977 to 2000.
The “Basic Instinct” actor also opened up in the job interview about his 25-calendar year marriage to the “Mask of Zorro” actress.
Calling his relationship a “good experience,” Douglas believes that growing his family later on in lifetime has manufactured him a much better father.
Acquiring said that, the actor admitted that it is not constantly been the situation.
“Cameron experienced a good deal from that time,” he reported of his eldest son. “I was just confused and overloaded by my operate.”
“And relatives was really getting third location soon after function, our region and then the loved ones, as opposed to when Catherine and I obtained collectively. And you have done plenty of do the job previously that you have been wanting far more to enjoy the possibility and the youngsters,” he extra.
Douglas also opened up about remaining an empty nester with Zeta-Jones, 54.
“Catherine and I have been with each other, it’ll be 25 decades this yr,” he said. “So it’s been a fantastic experience and I’ve been very fortunate, pleased with the decisions that I have designed and now am sort of actually backing off and smelling the roses a small much more, traveling much more.”
As for his little ones, the actor’s youngest son formerly informed Web site Six that his popular dad has a whole lot of “bad jokes.”
“More in terms of what he suggests, instead than who he is,” Dylan said in April 2023. “Just dad stuff. [He’s a] bit out of touch, lousy jokes for certain!”
