Michael Douglas' Memoir Is UNHINGED: A Sock On The Door, Five 'Quick Calls' And The Golden Globe Incident With Julia Roberts

Stop scrolling, because Michael Douglas' new memoir has landed, and it is not holding anything back. Sock-on-the-doorknob codes, a Golden Globe threat and a Basic Instinct twist nobody saw coming? We need a minute.

The 82-year-old Oscar winner's book is called One Helluva Ride, and according to Page Six, it absolutely lives up to the title. Here are the juiciest bits.

The Tea ☕

• Douglas says his on-set fling on Basic Instinct wasn't with Sharon Stone. It was with Jeanne Tripplehorn.
• He recalls a very drunk run-in with Julia Roberts at a 1990 Golden Globes party, which he calls a line he crossed.
• He also writes about sharing an apartment with Danny DeVito, early drug use and what he told Catherine Zeta-Jones when she demanded monogamy.

The Basic Instinct Twist

The 1992 thriller's steamy scenes sparked years of speculation that Douglas and Sharon Stone were an item off-screen. Page Six reports that, per the memoir, the real romance was with Tripplehorn, who played his therapist in the film.

"The truth is, I fell very hard for Jeanne despite our nearly 20-year age difference," he writes. He was married to first wife Diandra Luker at the time and says he was ready to leave her, but knew that would be the "worst thing" for him.

The relationship lasted through production, then they went separate ways. He calls her "a truly terrific woman." A rep for Tripplehorn didn't respond to Page Six's request for comment.

The Golden Globes Moment

Now for the cringe. Douglas writes that he was producing Flatliners and brought his 13-year-old son Cameron as his plus-one to a Golden Globes party. Julia Roberts, who starred in the film with then-fiancé Kiefer Sutherland, had her arm around Cameron at the bar.

"To me, in that moment, he looked stunned…but I was pretty drunk," Douglas writes, per Page Six. He says he told her to take her Golden Globe and "stick it where the sun don't shine."

Yes, really. To the star of the movie he was producing.

The next morning came the phone call, then roses, a note and in-person apologies to Roberts and Sutherland. "Luckily, they forgave me enough to get through that and finish the picture," he writes. "I remained friends with Kiefer. Julia, not so much." A spokesperson for Roberts didn't reply to Page Six.

The Five Phone Calls

Back in the late '90s, Zeta-Jones reportedly told Douglas she'd only date him if it was monogamous. His response, per the book: "Wait here, I have to make five quick calls."

She was, understandably, shocked. "Five? You have to make five calls?!"

Douglas says he'd kept the women in different cities, which "felt like a respectful way to be nonmonogamous." They've been married since 2000, so the calls clearly worked out.

The Rest Of The Book

• The sock on the door. When Douglas and a then-unknown Danny DeVito were roommates, a sock on the doorknob meant someone was entertaining. Douglas admits there were stretches when Danny was living "more outside the apartment than in."
• The LSD era. At college he says he took LSD more than a hundred times over three years, "but never more than once a week." Then, cheekily: "Because I was a man of restraint."
• Suitcase side hustle. He writes that he twice moved marijuana across the country in his dad's Christmas-gift luggage to pay tuition, and graduated debt-free.
• Dad, Kirk Douglas. The book gets serious about Kirk's temper, but Michael says their bond was transformed late in Kirk's life.
• Rob Reiner. He says he and the late director bonded over sons with serious drug struggles.

So... Who's Reading It?

The book is out now, and it's clear Douglas isn't tiptoeing. The timing is something too: as we reported earlier, he got visibly tense when a reporter pressed him on this very material in a recent interview.

Is this the most honest celebrity memoir of the year, or are some chapters better left in the vault? And if you're Team Julia, are you accepting that apology? Sound off below.

Sources: Page Six: Michael Douglas reveals all in wild new memoir | Page Six: Basic Instinct on-set fling | Page Six: Julia Roberts Golden Globes incident