Michael Douglas is set to undergo treatment for cancer after doctors discovered a tumour in his throat, the actor’s spokesperson revealed yesterday.
The Golden Globe and Oscar award-winner, 65, who is married to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, will receive eight weeks of chemotherapy and radiation.
Doctors expect the Wall Street star to make a full recovery, according to the spokesperson.
“I am very optimistic,” Douglas said in a statement.
Douglas had a half-pack-a-day smoking habit for many years before he vowed to quit in 2006.
The news comes as yet another blow for the acclaimed star, who has already endured a difficult year.
His son, Cameron, 31, with ex-wife Diandra Luker, was jailed earlier this year after pleading guilty to conspiring to sell crystal meth and for heroin possession.
“I’ve had a rough year on the personal front,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times in June. “It’s been pretty well publicised.”
Douglas admitted he felt responsible for his troubled son’s problems.
He said: “I’ve taken blame about being a bad father – if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.
“When I had Cameron I was early in my career and as opposed to most jobs, making movies takes you all around the world, so you were absentee in that sense.”
Douglas, determined to learn from his experience with Cameron and rearrange his priorities accordingly, slowed down his Hollywood career in recent years to spend time with Zeta-Jones, 40, and their young children Dylan, 10, and Carys, seven.
He said: “My priorities have completely changed. My marriage and my families come certainly before my career.
“I cherish the time with them.
“I’m picking a lot fewer projects now. It’s tough to get me out of the house.”
He added: “I’m so fortunate that I have Catherine, who is a great wife.”
Douglas will return to the silver screen as Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps later this year.
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