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Michael Douglas was accused by a former coworker of being masturbated in front of her and having prevented her from succeeding in Hollywood.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones remembers the conflict she felt when she heard of sexual harassment charges against her husband, Michael Douglas.

"My children and I have been deeply devastated by these allegations," she told the London newspaper The temperature. "And I was torn on the place where my absolute morals reside."

In early January, Michael Douglas gave a pre-emptive interview to pre-empt the report of author and journalist Susan Braundy that he had made sexually charged comments and had masturbated in front of her during 39, a private meeting in his apartment in the late 80's, when Braundy. directed the office of the Douglas production company in New York.

"I would confess everything I thought I was responsible for," he told the Hollywood Reporter at the time. "And this was certainly not masturbating in front of this woman." It stinks. "I would have respected if she'd reached out to me during those years to share her pain or her concerns. , and I would have been the first to But answer directly to the newspapers or what you want to call, that just feels something else. "

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Zeta-Jones and Douglas have been married since 2000. They have two children: Dylan, 18, and Carys, 15. The actress called the situation "nasty" and noted that it put her in a "really difficult situation".

"This woman came out of nowhere and accused my husband," she said. "I had a very great conversation with him, with the children in the room, and I said," Do you understand if others come out? … ""

She added that Douglas had told his family that there was "no story here and that time would tell."

"And of course if," she continued. "There was nothing to back it up, for any charge that would be made that would not be confirmed, the movement would be overthrown by 20 years."

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