Michael Douglas has apologised for the incautious remark in which he claimed that fellow actor Val Kilmer was suffering from the same form of throat cancer that had affected Douglas.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Kilmer wrote: “Michael Douglas wrote me a nice note apologizing for suggesting to the press overseas, I ‘wasn’t doing too well …’ and was grateful to hear I am doing well. He’s a classy guy.”
Douglas had originally sparked widespread alarm by stating during a Q&A in London on 30 October that Kilmer, with whom he had worked on the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness, was “a wonderful guy who is dealing with exactly what I had, and things don’t look too good for him”.
Kilmer denied the story two days later, writing: “I love Michael Douglas but he is misinformed … [I] have no cancer whatsoever.”
