Actor Michael Douglas Suffered A Recent Bout Of Memory Loss After Sleeping Pills He Took To Combat Jet Lag While Promoting His Latest Film Proved Too Powerful.
The Wall Street star has been travelling around the world for premieres and interviews to promote Marvel Studios blockbuster Ant-Man, and the hectic schedule took a toll on his sleep pattern - so he popped a couple of pills so he could grab a nap on a plane flight.
But the drugs robbed him of his memory.
He says, "We had our first premiere in Los Angeles and I was in Europe (at the time) and I (had to fly back) to Los Angeles to do (the press for the film) for five days. Then from there I had to go back to London... We finally had the premiere in London and we were leaving the next day to come back to New York and I was trying to get to sleep. I took a couple of pills to try to get to sleep and I couldn't and I woke up and I took one more.
"Well, to make a long story short, we're on the plane and I don't (even) remember packing and I turn to (my wife) Catherine (Zeta-Jones)... and (she says), 'Honey, this morning you got up and you looked cross-eyed, you look completely cross-eyed at me and you started... screaming, 'Spoiler alert, spoiler alert, spoiler alert! I've lost my wallet, my passport!'
"She kept saying, 'What spoiler alert?' I realised (I was screaming that because) the whole junket time... (I kept saying), 'Spoiler alert', because you don't want to give away the secrets (of the movie)."
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