DOUGLAS RECOVERING FROM KNEE SURGERY

Last updated: Thursday, April 30, 2009

DOUGLAS RECOVERING FROM KNEE SURGERY

Veteran actor MICHAEL DOUGLAS is recovering from surgery after having his knee replaced.

Michael Douglas arriving at the "Ghost of Girlfriends Past" Premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California - 27.04.09

The Basic Instinct star, 64, found himself limping around on the set of his forthcoming film Solitary Man and was instructed by doctors to go under the knife to remedy the problem.

He says, "I had my knee replaced, I have an artificial knee. A little bit of PVC, plastic pipes with titanium rods. It's four weeks old.

"I had a skiing accident years and years ago and it just wore down. It finally got to a point where I had a limp and I had to do it. So it's four weeks old. I've got another couple of months (of recovery) but I'll be fine."

Douglas is already back on his feet and he credits his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones with helping to make his recovery all the more comfortable.

He adds, "She turned out to be fantastic, it's like a test to see how good your wife is, but she's been fantastic. But I couldn't get her into the nurse's outfit!"

But Douglas' father, legendary actor Kirk Douglas, wasn't so kind and poked fun at his injury: "After this fairly serious operation, I go see him and he said, 'How you doing?' and I said, 'Pretty good dad', and he goes, 'You know, when I had my double knee replacement, I was 88!'"

Source: WENN

| Thursday, April 30, 2009

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