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The ‘Wall Street’ actor revealed that his throat cancer was really tongue cancer.
Bite your tongue, Michael Douglas.
The actor, 69, who claimed to have throat cancer last spring, has now confessed that he in fact had tongue cancer.
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Douglas said he lied because surgery for the latter can be disfiguring, and he was promoting “Wall Street 2” at the time.
During an interview with Samuel L. Jackson on a Male Cancer Awareness Week special edition of UK TV’s “This Morning,” Douglas says surgeons warned him, “If we do have to have surgery it’s not going to be pretty.”
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“This was right before I had a big tour for ‘Wall Street,’ so we kind of said, ‘There’s no way we can cancel the tour and say we don’t feel well,’” Douglas told Jackson, according to People magazine.
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Douglas and wife of 13 years Catherine Zeta-Jones separated in August, but will reportedly reunite for Thanksgiving with their children in New York.
“I said, ‘You’ve just got to come out and just tell them I’ve got cancer and that’s it.’”
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The actor previously said his throat cancer was a result of an HPV strain caused by oral sex.
The actor’s handsome mug now appears to be in the clear, but maybe all the talk is an attempt to take attention away from his separation from wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, who was recently spotted still wearing her wedding ring.
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News broke of the A-list duo’s separation in late August, after nearly 13 years together.
Douglas and Zeta-Jones reportedly will reunite for Thanksgiving in New York with their two children- Dylan 13, and Carys, 12.
Michael Douglas reveals he had tongue cancer instead of throat cancer
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