Michael Douglas spills on Catherine Zeta Jones, cancer in new memoir

Key Points:

• Michael Douglas's memoir "One Helluva Ride" reveals candid stories from his five-decade career, including his 2010 throat cancer battle and complex relationship with his father, Kirk Douglas.
• Douglas describes a wild period in the late 1970s involving drug use and partying, including a night where he and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner did cocaine with O.J. Simpson after an "SNL" party.
• He recounts a bizarre encounter with actress Debra Winger, who bit him on the arm during their courtship for "Romancing the Stone," leading to her being dropped from the role, which eventually went to Kathleen Turner, with whom Douglas had a passionate affair.
• Douglas shares personal moments such as watching "Wall Street" with Princess Diana and reflecting on their mutual struggles with unhappy marriages, as well as his slow courtship with Catherine Zeta-Jones, who insisted on taking their relationship gradually and monogamously.
• The memoir also details intimate and challenging experiences filming erotic thrillers "Fatal Attraction" and "Basic Instinct," including Douglas accidentally injuring Sharon Stone during a sex scene due to his stubble causing chafing.