Michael Douglas has insisted his split from wife Catherine Zeta-Jones is “temporary” denying rumours their 13-year marriage is in “crisis”.
Michael and Catherine announced they were “taking a break” from their marriage last week but when questioned about the split in Germany yesterday, Michael insisted their marriage was “fine”.
“I have a crisis at home?” he said. “No, I think the press has a crisis. We are fine. My wife and I are fine.
“We take a temporary separation but the press, it gives you stuff to write about.”
Michael was in Berlin promoting his Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra.
Rumours the A-list couple’s marriage was in trouble have been swirling for months.
Michael, 68, and Catherine, 43, have not been pictured together in public for four months, making red carpet appearances separately and holidaying apart.
They have certainly been through a lot in recent years — Michael battled throat cancer in 2011 (which he controversially claimed he contracted through performing oral sex) and Catherine went through two highly-publicised stints in a treatment facility for bi-polar disorder shortly afterwards.
The couple married in a lavish ceremony at New York’s Plaza Hotel in 2000. They have two children, Dylan, 13, and Carys, 10.
