Michael Douglas: "I Lied About Throat Cancer"

In a new interview Michael Douglas revealed he did not battle throat cancer, but tongue cancer.

Douglas, 69, made the shocking revelation about his 2010 diagnosis in a British daytime TV interview with Samuel L. Jackson.

Douglas noted that his doctor, upon finding out a tumor at the base of his tongue, advised him that he should not speak out about an illness associated with such a negative prognosis on the eve of his press commitments for "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps".





"This was right before I had a big tour for Wall Street, so we said: "There's no way we can cancel the tour and say we don't feel well,"" Douglas told Jackson, adding: "I said: "You've just got to come out and just tell them I've got cancer and that's it.""

"But the surgeon said: "Let's just say it's throat cancer." I said: "OK, you don't want to say it's tongue cancer?...Why's that?" and he said: "Well, if you really want to know why, if we do have to have surgery it's not going to be pretty. You'll lose part of you jaw and your tongue and all of that stuff,"" Douglas was quoted as saying.

Douglas was given a good report on health in January 2011.


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