Michael Douglas is revisiting an ugly encounter with Julia Roberts, recalling how a drunken moment at a Golden Globes party led him to tell the actress to put her award “where the sun don’t shine.”

The episode appears in his new memoir, “One Helluva Ride,” out today, as reported by Page Six.

The Oscar winner, 82, writes that he and Roberts attended the same Golden Globes party while she was shooting “Flatliners.” The 1990 horror movie also starred her then fiancé, Kiefer Sutherland.

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Got so drunk at a Golden Globes party he told Julia Roberts to shove her award "where the sun don't shine". https://t.co/Lefxu0afjs — Filmaesthete (@filmaesthetetw) October 6, 2026

Douglas was a producer on the movie and brought his son, Cameron, to the party as his guest. Cameron was 13 at the time, placing him at the center of the uncomfortable exchange Douglas now recounts.

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According to Douglas, he was at the bar when he saw Roberts being affectionate with Cameron. His intoxication shaped how he interpreted what was happening and set off his confrontational response.

“We were at the bar, and Julia had her arm around my son, kind of nuzzling him,” he wrote. “To me, in that moment, he looked stunned…but I was pretty drunk.”

The “Fatal Attraction” star says he then lashed out at Roberts with an especially blunt command. Douglas remembers telling her: “Take your hands off my son and take that Golden Globe and stick it where the sun don’t shine.”

The fallout reached Douglas quickly. The following morning, his producing partner called him after hearing what had happened at the party, forcing the actor and producer to confront the seriousness of his behavior.

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Douglas now admits the outburst was far beyond acceptable, particularly because Roberts was a major young star working on a movie he was producing. “I’d crossed a line with the most in-demand young actress in Hollywood,” the “Wall Street” star acknowledges.

He attempted to repair the damage by sending Roberts a bunch of roses with a note. Douglas also apologized in person to both Roberts and Sutherland after the Golden Globes confrontation.

The apologies were apparently enough to keep the professional situation from collapsing before “Flatliners” was completed. They did not, however, leave every relationship untouched once the movie was finished.

“Luckily, they forgave me enough to get through that and finish the picture,” he writes. “I remained friends with Kiefer. Julia, not so much.”

A spokesperson for Roberts did not reply to a request for comment. Douglas writes about the clash entirely from his own recollection, including his acknowledgment that he was heavily intoxicated during the incident.

A couple of years after the confrontation, Douglas entered rehab for alcohol and substance abuse. His account of the Roberts episode is one of several personal stories included in “One Helluva Ride,” which covers experiences from his long Hollywood career.

The memoir also addresses Douglas’ affair with Kathleen Turner while the two were filming “Romancing the Stone.” Douglas describes their relationship as one that moved through friendship, professional partnership and romance during production.

“We found each other first as friends, then as co-stars and finally as lovers,” he writes. “Following an exhausting day of shooting in the jungle … I would sneak into her hotel room after everybody was asleep.”

That affair ended after Douglas’ wife, Diana Luker, and Cameron visited the set. Luker confronted Turner, bringing the relationship between Douglas and his costar to an end.

Together, the stories show Douglas looking back at episodes involving drinking, infidelity and damaged personal relationships.

His recollection of Roberts stands out as a particularly humiliating admission, complete with flowers, apologies and a friendship that, by his own telling, never took hold.

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