Today, I saw the news that Cameron Douglas, the eldest son of Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas, recently published an autobiography, "Long Way Home", which tells the story of the first half of his bumpy life.
One sentence to sum up: Cameron, the eldest son of Michael Douglas, was arrested in 2009 for drug possession, sentenced to 5 years in prison, and was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison for colluding with his girlfriend and lawyer at the time to bring drugs and prohibited drugs to prison, accidentally becoming one of the longest-term prisoners for drug possession.
And the Douglas family is a living legend in Hollywood.
Kirk Douglas, 103, was nominated for three Oscars for Best Actor, and won the 1996 Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, the 2001 Berlin Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1999 was voted the 17th greatest actor in a hundred years by the American Film Institute.
Father Michael Douglas is 75 years old, and in 1975, he co-produced "Flying Over the Madhouse", which won the Oscars for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best actress.
In 1987, he won the Oscar for Best Actor for Wall Street.
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When it comes to his son Cameron, it is a bad debt from small to large.
Cameron's parents were not in harmony. Michael Douglas and his first wife, Diandra, married in 1977, and the two had known each other for only eight weeks, while the bride was only 18 and the mother was 21 when she gave birth to Cameron.
Michael once told reporters that his biggest regret in life is that he did not divorce Diandra earlier. He said brazenly: "If I could, I would end the marriage at least 8 or even 10 years early." ”
The marriage of the two had also been separated as early as 1995, and then Douglas's female companions changed and changed, once becoming the talk of Hollywood.
At the Deauville Film Festival in France in 1998, he met Catherine Zeta-Jones, a great British beauty. Douglas was mesmerized by the beauty, and in 2000 he ended his 23-year marriage, paying a hefty alimony of up to £30 million.
In August of the same year of the divorce, Catherine bore Douglas a son. In November, the two had a grand wedding at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
Cameron is all too familiar with drug addiction. His uncle, stand-up comedian Eric Douglas, died of a drug overdose in 2004.
Cameron himself began drinking and taking drugs at the age of 13, saying: "Drugs are my way out of loneliness. ”
When she gave birth to her son, her mother, Diandra, was only 21 years old, and her 34-year-old father was not only a popular student, but also won the Oscar for Best Picture, and he was often away from home.
As an only son, Cameron did not have a good role model to accompany him in his formative years. He said: "I always wanted to find the direction and meaning of my life, and in adolescence, I met a group of friends who smoked and drank, and then I mixed with them. ”
By his 20s, Cameron's addiction to drugs was getting worse, and he said: "I hate the misfortune that drugs bring to my life, but I just can't stop." ”
The father realized that his son's problem was very serious and needed to be rescued. He suggested that Cameron could work on a three-generation movie, Family Hereditary It Runs in the Family — as long as he went to a drug rehab first.
On another occasion, Michael Douglas hired two people to kidnap his son and forcibly put him in a drug rehab center, for which the two did not speak for a long time.
But it was all in vain, Michael called his son and said, "I love you very much, but you can't go on like this, I didn't want you to be famous, but if you go on like this, you will either kill people or be killed, and I feel like I am about to lose you." ”
Cameron was so heartbroken that he said to his father, "Stop loving me, Dad." ”
In 2009, Cameron was arrested and jailed during a drug arrest operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration, and he was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine.
Cameron's addiction was not completely eliminated while in prison, and in 2009, prison guards discovered that his then-girlfriend, Kelly Scott, had secretly carried 7 grams of heroin in the handle of an electric toothbrush.
In 2011, Cameron's lawyer, Jennifer Ridha, began smuggling drugs for him to treat bipolar disorder.
After the matter was revealed, Jennifer lost her job and wrote a memoir about how to help the son of a big star deliver illegal drugs to prison.
Tossing and turning like this, Cameron was sentenced to 4 and a half years, accidentally becoming one of the longest-serving people in the United States for drug possession. After nearly eight years in prison, he was released in 2016.
After being released from prison, Cameron moved back to Los Angeles, where he and his girlfriend Viviane Thiebes welcomed their daughter Lua in 17 years.
Cameron is currently experimenting with screenwriting, occasionally having breakfast with grandpa Kirk Douglas, who lives nearby, and volunteering part-time at the Los Angeles Mission.
On social media, he also often posted photos of his daughter, who wrote on her birthday: "Happy birthday to you, this is one of your countless firsts in the future." I love you, Angel! ”
Cameron said he was grateful that his family had supported him during his darkest days: "I'm lucky to have a family that never gave up on me."
Most of the 40 years of life have been taking detours, and I hope that this time I will return to the right path.
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