Michael Douglas Details ‘Painful’ Sit-down with Journalist Who Hadn’t Read His Memoir: ‘So Obvious’

Michael Douglas has a pretty good radar for BS, and it went off during an interview for his recently released memoir, One Helluva Ride.

While appearing as a guest on Charlie Sheen‘s Mostly Sheenius podcast on Thursday, November 12, Douglas, 82, reflected on a “painful” luncheon with a British publication while promoting the book.

“Your [expletive] detector, now that I’ve been doing this for a little while with the book, tells you pretty quickly if they haven’t read it. Or if they’re busy and they have some assistants giving them notes,” Douglas said.

“We spent an hour and a half [and] there was nothing about the book,” he added.

In an attempt to play devil’s advocate, the Two and a Half Men actor, 61, whose memoir, The Book of Sheen, came out in September 2025, wondered if the journalist was “intentionally avoiding it.” But Douglas reiterated that the journalist hadn’t read it, and their coverage of the memoir only served as further proof.

“When the article came out, I kind of caught it and told Shane Salerno, my cowriter, about it. I said, ‘Keep an eye on this.’ And sure enough — it was the only bad one, it was right at the top — I went, ‘Oh god, I’m gonna have three weeks of this stuff,'” the Wall Street star said, noting that the article came out early in the press cycle for the book.

“And that was the only one that was so obvious that she had not read it,” Douglas continued.

Sheen was quick to stress the implications of something like that, adding, “Don’t they know that that’s the last time we’re ever going to agree to speak to them?”

Douglas agreed, noting that the comment section of the article was flooded with responses from readers who also clocked the reporter’s obvious error.

“What the [expletive] was that about?” Douglas recalled readers asking. “You just obviously didn’t like the guy, and there was nothing — he was there to talk about his book. You had nothing to say about the book.”

Douglas’ memoir, One Helluva Ride, is out now.

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