Michael Douglas with Kelly Corrigan

From his fractured childhood through recounting his career through twelve of his most iconic films, Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Emmy Award-winning actor and producer Michael Douglas finally gives the full and uncensored account of his life in One Helluva Ride.

Initially dismissed as just the handsome son of legendary movie star Kirk Douglas, at age thirty-one Douglas surprised Hollywood when he won his first Oscar for producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Told he would never be more than a TV actor, he quit the hit series “The Streets of San Francisco” and went on to win a second Oscar for his performance in Wall Street.

Yet as Douglas’s fame grew, so did his personal struggles: his turbulent first mar­riage; infidelity and affairs; his struggle with alcohol, drugs and rehab; the fight to save his son from an addiction that sent him to prison; and his battle with stage IV cancer. He saw Catherine Zeta Jones on a movie screen and instantly fell for her. Their incredible love story transformed his life, enduring after twenty-five years of marriage.

Douglas will be in conversation with Kelly Corrigan, the author of four New York Times bestselling memoirs about family life as well as two children’s books. She hosts the podcast, “Kelly Corrigan Wonders,” and the show “Tell Me More” on PBS.