Michael Douglas on Son's Book About His Addiction Struggles | The View
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The “Kominsky Method” star opens up about handling his son Cameron Douglas’ substance abuse.
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Just finished this book. It is excellent with a lot of honesty about how he changed his whole outlook on life. I would really recommend it.
A firm believer in “tell me who you hang around with and I’ll tell you who you are!”
@autumnmeadows4079
4 жыл бұрын
Laura Rodriguez me too
@SnowWhite-ui4lz
4 жыл бұрын
Me too x
Wow, in the first photo, Cameron, looks like a clone of his father. Deep subject! Wishing Cameron a lifetime of sobriety, peace & happiness. 5 years sobriety, keep fighting the good fight.
If anyone has not seen Cameron's interview from yesterday, (there are two clips) please watch it. It is raw, emotional, and inspirational all at once. I am happy also that 'The View' had Michael today, as I love him as an actor, but to also sort of bring Cameron's interview full circle. Glad this was done the way it was.
The Douglases not only look alike, they SOUND alike!
The older he gets the more he looks just like his Dad!
@guessmyname6210
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I've thought the same thing.
@megz84
4 жыл бұрын
I was going to post this exact thing!
@MTknitter22
4 жыл бұрын
David Lopez Yes but he has aged terribly as compared to Kirk. Kirk looked great all thru his 70’s.
@guessmyname6210
4 жыл бұрын
@@MTknitter22 He had cancer. That ages you fast.
@louise-yo7kz
4 жыл бұрын
True. Michael looks like Kirk and Cameron like Mike.
Having been a Mother of a recovering son~my heart always goes out to a fellow parent..the heartaches, sleepless nights, and yet-- recovery. Its a process, but Cameron in his bravery, Michael also will tell us a story to help others..
hope he continues to do well the son
This is why Al-Anon is so important for family members to learn on how to work on their own recovery
@jojomakes
4 жыл бұрын
100%
@mariaestherrivas4988
4 жыл бұрын
Yes thank you so much for pointing this out
Stay strong my friend. your little daughter means the world to you do it for her stay positive.
For all those people bashing his looks and his speech. Guys, he had tongue cancer. I would like to see how you would talk after that. He is very lucky to be alive as we are. Also he isn't that young. People age and it shows. As we all will age. If we are lucky. Little empathy, people. 🥰
@peachesj4748
Жыл бұрын
People are not people these days, they are evil entities.
GREAT MAN ! He looks amazing!
The Douglas men have VERY strong genes!!! He looks SOOO MUCH Older than my Mother and Father!!! God BLESS!!!
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
I think he looks good. He is in his 70s, we all age!
Yes, a nightmare is a perfect description. I try to look back and wonder if I could have done something... I just don't know
Tough love..it's hard but necessary. 16 years with my son. Tragic.
Very honest man
So fond of Michael Douglas
Wow- what a hard hard battle that is. I wish them all the best. Michael Douglas really looks and sounds very different there than I remember him.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
God bless you, finally a really good reply. Thank you!!!!!
Those Douglas genes are strong!
Michael Douglas is a great actor, watch the movie falling down....it is so good!
@scosta87
4 жыл бұрын
Victoria Juergens-Renfro oh yeah i loved that movie👍🏽
The Kominsky method is fuxking amazing
Lovely micheal x
Is his father Kirk still around? Must be in his 90s/100s. Loved him in Spartacus!! Legendary.
@CJReed-pw8re
4 жыл бұрын
103 and still kicking. Micheal is 75 and still has his Dad around crazy.
Money BUYS a lot of CARING, LOVE, and HELP!!! But when U have No Money, Nobody Cares or Helps!!!
@DeeDiamond2981
4 жыл бұрын
Not true. Both poor and rich are humans. We all.have issues...
@allegro70
4 жыл бұрын
Lip stick, welcome to a World filled with hipocricy.
@lindawilliams429
4 жыл бұрын
No pity. He got a book deal out of it. I don't know of any junkie (that's what he is), writing a book. He had everything going for him. No pity for him. Sorry!!
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
@@lindawilliams429 But it's an excellent book, and not everybody can write such a great book. Don't judge and don't think it can't happen to you! People with addiction problems need help and support, especially when they are young.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
Everybody can get addicted, no matter if someone is getting love, care, help, no matter what color or age, no matter if rich or poor. Look how many actors and musicians, they had everything and still developed an addiction.
What a family. Strength and substance
@JaIch9999
4 жыл бұрын
Strength? They are all drug abusers. Nothing strong about that.
@wendyknoxleet
4 жыл бұрын
Ja Ich In recovery. I am 40 years clean and let me tell you I have respect for those who choose recovery. It is not easy, perhaps you need to try to understand a bit more and perhaps do research. Your comments seem extremely judgmental to me, without much insight.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
I think it's especially a problem of actors of stars in the entertainment industry. I think there is a lot of pressure. Hollywood is dangerous. It's not only in this family. Many stars, musicians and actors are confronted with this problem.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
@@JaIch9999 I feel the same, you are very judgmental. I have great respect, if someone is able to solve like Cameron his drug problem, the underlying issues, and turn your life around without any help. The book is by the way brilliant, well written, you can really follow the emotional path that leads into the wrong direction. Many young people are confronted in schools, there are drugs, and they want to fit in. It will help a lot of mothers and fathers who have teenage children.
Disagree that addiction is a physiological disease. It’s an emotional longing that manifests as physiological craving. Calling it a disease is a get out of jail free card. No one has to take responsibility.
@peaceandlove6670
4 жыл бұрын
A A great comment. An emotional longing yes. Addiction begins with pain and if it is not controlled or cured, ends in pain.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
It's a disease, because it changes the brain. I think it's much more complex, because, why is it so difficult to heal, even if the person who is addicted wanted to get off drugs? And why are so many people in America addicted?
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
No. It is physical and emotional thing. It is disease, but that doesn't mean person doesn't have to take responsibility of their actions.
@Rubylove48
2 жыл бұрын
@@destinychild4659 I stand by my claim that’s it’s not an medical illness or disease. (I went to medical school and have worked in social medicine for @ long time). the medical pharma corporate industrial complex loves to sell it as a disease so people remain victims and a slave to the medical system and corporate power/money. ✌🏽.
he is very handsome hope the Son recovers
Douglas men are truly classy classic decent men. The book can shed light 💡 on how solitary federal confinement affects meth addiction and treatment.
@JaIch9999
4 жыл бұрын
They are all drug abusers. Nothing decent about that.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
@@JaIch9999 Which can happen to anyone. Anyone you know. 🙄
Cameron looks like the love child of Michael Douglas and U2's Bono! This is not an insult, he's definately got his families good looks and voice.
I can attest to the fact that to this day he would wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat craving 'one last hit'. His dad is pretty smart making him take such a public approach to it, so that just makes him be a lot more responsible about his future now. I hope he can live the rest of his life sober, he would be 1/110 people. That's quite something no matter if he is from Hollywood or Virginia !
“I’m not going to be IGNUUURED”
@MsRESPECT90
4 жыл бұрын
That was Jack Nicholson
@POObumpoopo
4 жыл бұрын
@@MsRESPECT90 It was Glenn Close dear.
@gillianlandry283
4 жыл бұрын
@@MsRESPECT90 Jack Nicholson??? 🙄
The drug culture mixed with technology like violent video games, was something the Atari generation could never have seen coming.
@allegro70
4 жыл бұрын
Nonsense, it's a human issue not taken into consideration or dealt with responsibility. US is such a country that rules by contrast and means in capital. Nothing good will come out of those 'quick fix' solutions.
What a genes this Douglas family is having...
@JaIch9999
4 жыл бұрын
Drug abuse is in the genes.....
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
@@JaIch9999 Maybe. But lots of people in entertainment business have addictions. And it isn't just them. Normal people have them, too.
Romancing the Stone part 5 !!
I told my kids 18 is just a number I still leasing to my parents
@4bfam
4 жыл бұрын
Lol. That's pretty awesome.
Just watched Fatal Attraction for the first time a couple days ago, great movie
@EricaShady10171972
4 жыл бұрын
😯😯😯
@richardc7869
4 жыл бұрын
Carl Creighton Go for Basic Instinct next!!
@vsedai
4 жыл бұрын
He is good but his DAD is the man.
@phillipswatson3452
4 жыл бұрын
😎CARL YOU MUST BE VERY YOUNG OR WASN'T BORN YET😜LOL😜I'M JUST OLD!!!💃🎵🏃
@phillipswatson3452
4 жыл бұрын
@NewLife51 😎 😜LOL😜YOU'RE OLD ALSO?!?!
I love Meghan hair style. It’s beautiful.
@cybersylv
4 жыл бұрын
aurora Merry A clip-on ponytail?
@raineyj560
4 жыл бұрын
@@cybersylv lol
@MTknitter22
4 жыл бұрын
cybersylv Her own hair IS long
Dads and Sons WOW he sounds like Matt Dylan
Oh no megan is back geez it was so nice listening to the View without her
son's addiction must be tuff for ya mike
thc doesnt kill you
He's slurring his words, but considering he had Stage IV tongue cancer he sounds pretty good.
@JonathanESmith-er9we
4 жыл бұрын
Dentures as well
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
He sounds amazing considering cancer, age. When we age, our voice can change.
It's the only disease you can spend 7 years in jail for catching.
Love this dude. But, he got on the show saying the federal government needs to step in and regulate thc. Hello?! If the thc is to high, dispensaries carry marijuana with lower thc percentages. Buy flower with a lower thc count, problem solved.
The parents are blame but that's not always true,you can speak to them advice them but you can't keep them from going out and know the wrong and falling in addiction and all you can do is pray have faith and help in everyway you can..it doesn't matter your race,money etc,it impact your family, its hurting its horrible even worse when theres a lost to death. Great dad ,to never give up on his son..🙏
@louiscaruso4167
4 жыл бұрын
M A I totally agree with you....addiction is a very serious issue....was very happy to see dad supporting his son.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
I agree with every sentence you wrote. Teenager like to do the opposite what you tell them. The peer group is more important as the family. Somebody told me you really learn how to pray if you have teenager. It's not only their friends, it's the driving, it's there way of dealing with things, they think that they are invincible.
i like Benicio del Toro's character in the movie Traffic. i don't have time for Michael Douglas' son's BS, tbh.
@donnabrown1125
4 жыл бұрын
I'm like you. I've never felt sorry for Cameron. Everyone can always say no to drugs.
@arlene4299
4 жыл бұрын
@@donnabrown1125 Unfortunately it isn't that simple. If it was nobody would be an addict.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
@@donnabrown1125 Then it would be easy. The US is healed, all the people have to say just no to drugs! It's actually not easy and a struggle your whole life. It's a complex problem of a person who needs a lot of help, support and it still will be hard. A lot of people who are on drugs are doing suicide. I have great respect if people can solve their addiction problems. Did you read his book? It's actually well written, exciting, honest and quite excellent. It will help a lot of American families. It gives a really good insight of the mind set of a young man, who is struggling psychologically and tries to fit in the peer group. Exactly the problem of the teenager our generation.
Spartacus' son.
I hate the View and what is up with Whoopi and the hair? But I like Michael Douglas and understand his struggles with his son.
Why is Sunny part of this panel after having behaved so abrasively towards Catherine Zeta-Jones?
I am Caleb Harper 😊🙏🏿
Can someone tell Joy to go to the doctor? She’s acid reflux, I have it
@richardc7869
4 жыл бұрын
zeke422 Hello prevacid 😌
Why didn't you guys mention Rep. Cummings today? He's the first African-American to ly in repose at the Capital, .
@barbarabueno81
4 жыл бұрын
Because of the time the show is recorded!
A lot of partying entitled rich offspring are and have been directly or indirectly responsible for untellable amounts of crime and human trafficking.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
Not only entitled rich offspring - there are are other humans responsible for those crimes as well! You just hear from the entitled rich people more news.
One of the biggest slow killers is addiction.
@kiriforever1
4 жыл бұрын
Not so slow, an overdose, and one is gone. Does not matter if you are 18, 25, 33 overdose and your dead.
He's Drunk
@deborahhooper756
4 жыл бұрын
I thought that maybe he had a stroke.
@brianjasta3994
4 жыл бұрын
No.. he had throat cancer
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
No. He had tongue cancer. Empathy, too much to ask, I guess. 🙄
Focusing better:Michael seems a bit strange here...he probably took drugs or alcohol before this interview!!!
@lisacoates4967
4 жыл бұрын
Miguel Anselmo he’s drunk *slurring words* (disease schemease) Their environment and their lifestyle 🙄 #allowanceswithoutworkingdonotwork
@mscarolynnigro
4 жыл бұрын
Didnt he have a stroke?
@Blueorchid1963
4 жыл бұрын
Miguel Anselmo Throat cancer and tongue cancer
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
So much hatred. 🙄🙄🙄 Guy had cancer.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
@@lisacoates4967 He isn't drunk. He almost died of tongue cancer. It's not only rich people who have addictions. America is full of people with addictions. Little respect, people. 😉
He looks terrible. Speech is odd too, sounds as if he is heavily medicated. He is slurring his words.
@PositiveMommaLife
4 жыл бұрын
Williamus Rex he had throat cancer
@jennywinter3025
4 жыл бұрын
His old
@prairiegirlist
4 жыл бұрын
He's lucky to be with us,he's battled throat cancer.Show some empathy.
@momma_bear_8625
4 жыл бұрын
He had throat cancer and his age is a factor. Have some empty
@MissAndret
4 жыл бұрын
How will you sound and look at his age after battling cancer? 🙄
His voice ...he's slurring words, not dramatically but one wonders is it age or something else.
@Debby901
4 жыл бұрын
He battled tongue cancer.
I don't like Sunny's new hair. It makes her look old. #fail
@its_msk
4 жыл бұрын
@Sicilian Gecko Are you okay ? 😶
@bleuskye8124
4 жыл бұрын
@Sicilian Gecko like you bully Meghan?
@chiefjetsonofflare5329
4 жыл бұрын
I agree😟
@richardc7869
4 жыл бұрын
Sicilian Gecko Good god girl, get a grip!!
@muurisoras5878
4 жыл бұрын
I thought so too.
Balance comes from an apple that doesn’t fall from a tree!!!! He wouldn’t have been in prison if you embraced your son & broke the path! Forget the excuses you didn’t fight!!!! You never stood up for your son!!!! Blame it on 18...... it wouldn’t have happened if you would of taken care from the gate! The view is BS BTW!!!! Now your talking about vamping???? FU MD
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
It's not his father's fault. He couldn't do anything to prevent everything. iI only can come from any insight of his son' s heart.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
People have addictions, who come from happy families, too. People think it's so black and white, when it isn't.
Speech slurs sometimes?
He is truly Kirk Douglas' son
What's up with Michael's voice????
@scarletibis3158
4 жыл бұрын
he had cancer in his mouth. it's fortunate he is still around!
@barbarabueno81
4 жыл бұрын
Oral cancer and age!
he does look very old k actor more than his dad
Drug and alcohal addiction is not a disease. It's a choice.
@sal229
4 жыл бұрын
Very true
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
It's not that simple. I have seen many people struggle with it. It is a choice and disease at the same time.
Oh..the so called "opioid crisis"....
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
It's not so called opioid crisis. 😒
Is Megan expecting? Plump
@greenfig3309
4 жыл бұрын
suzanne schulz no she’s just fat
I love this actor but he is slurring his words. Maybe dentures?
@Debby901
4 жыл бұрын
He battled tongue cancer
@midwestslotgeeks1081
4 жыл бұрын
He had mouth cancer
@bleuskye8124
4 жыл бұрын
@IMHTP His wife gave him the HPV virus from O Sex.
@richardc7869
4 жыл бұрын
Bleu Skye And that’s just another reason not to do that 😂
@bleuskye8124
4 жыл бұрын
@@richardc7869 lol
Sounds like he was a terrible father. Having your child in the middle of drugs galore. Self centred scumbag.
Not only the wealthy suffer, but you have to be wealthy or dirt poor (medical qualified) to get help. Pathetic coverage of an important subject.
@dinabowing4963
4 жыл бұрын
The problem is not if you are rich or poor. The problem is our medical system. America is a first world country and has the worst medical system. Why is health insurance not available for average income people? Why are surgeries, ER so expensive? Why are rehabs so expensive. It should be fee. Health care is a business in the States.
Was he drunk ?
Hi, I am gay actor Michael Douglas.
He sounds as if he’s under the influence of something.
@JourneyBennett-ty9lb
4 жыл бұрын
Exit Light throat cancer
@robingagan6288
4 жыл бұрын
@@JourneyBennett-ty9lb ahhhhhh yes. I thought maybe his teeth didn't fit
@MTknitter22
4 жыл бұрын
Mike Carter nope - cuz Michael is a fellow lib/Democrat who shares Democrat party morals.
@LOUD_NOVA
4 жыл бұрын
@Exit Light The man is 75 years old. He's probably on a slew of medications. To his benefit, his thought process is clear and he's completely awake, alert and oriented. He answers each question thoughtfully. What more do you want?! Jumping jacks and cartwheels?
@ExitLight
4 жыл бұрын
Dannie B you get butt hurt over a comment online. Wow. For the record, lots and most 75 yr olds don’t sllluuuurrrr their words. My parents happen to be two of those, thanks anyway.
I know he’s no spring chicken but men like Douglas who have a lot of plastic surgery actually look older and worse than they would have done if they didn’t . Just my opinion.
@vsedai
4 жыл бұрын
He looks older than his dad, who is 100.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
@@vsedai He certainly doesn't. He looks good for his age and Kirk looked just really old, like he is.
abuse drugs
Addiction is not a disease.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
Actually it is. Just ask any doctor!
#Ihatetheview
Is w Goldberg in UK House of lords in parliament
Michael Douglas' voice sounds shaky, almost as if he's on some drug or alcohol. I hope he's not; maybe it's just a drug for some "condition" he has.
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
He almost died of tongue cancer. Also he is older. But I think it's cancer that changed his voice. I don't see him drunk at all. I think he has learned his lesson.
The view is a joke
@destinychild4659
2 жыл бұрын
Then why watch it?