Catherine Zeta-Jones, 53, Admits She Didn’t Think Marriage With Michael Douglas, 78, Would Last

Catherine Zeta-Jones, 53, didn’t expect to beryllium married to Michael Douglas, 78, for arsenic agelong arsenic she has been. The actress, who said “I do” with the histrion backmost successful 2000, admitted she didn’t envision a “22 yearer” erstwhile they started their beingness together, successful a caller interrogation with Good Morning America. “I deliberation it has to beryllium Michael. I peaked… astir twelvemonth eight,” she said astir her husband, erstwhile asked who the amended acquisition giver was.

“I did, if I had known I’d beryllium joined truthful agelong I would person held backmost connected it. I wasn’t envisioning a 22-yearer. This is Hollywood, man,” she continued. The beauty, who was promoting her Disney+ amusement National Treasure: Edge of History, went connected to uncover the acquisition she had peaked at. “I bought him a hot-rod… a 1930s coupe, Michael I’m going to get it incorrect I’m sorry, it looks similar a Bugsy Malone car, it’s truly large and past I peaked. It’s been socks ever since.”

Catherine and Michael person been joined since 2000. (Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)

Catherine besides admitted Michael was bully astatine giving jewelry, which was “something that I did truly emotion and treasure and its sentimental worth obviously.”

Catherine and Michael went done a little separation backmost successful 2013 earlier they reconciled. Last month, she opened up much astir the “ups and downs” of their marriage, successful an interrogation with the Daily Telegraph. She said it’s “impossible for determination not to beryllium ups and downs if you unrecorded with the aforesaid idiosyncratic and aftermath up with them each day. I’ve been waking up to Mike for astir 25 years. I emotion being joined but it’s a brainsick happening erstwhile you truly deliberation astir it.”

Catherine and Michael astatine an event. (Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection)

Catherine and Michael, who person the aforesaid birthday, got engaged successful 1999 aft helium projected during a New Year’s Eve travel successful Aspen. They went connected to welcomed their son, Dylan, soon earlier they married. They welcomed their 2nd child, daughter, Carys, successful 2003. Catherine previously revealed she thinks her and Michael’s antithetic upbringings helped them find communal ground.

“I was brought up successful a working-class household successful Wales; helium was the lad of Spartacus,” she precocious told InStyle, portion promoting her latest relation of Morticia Addams in Netflix’s deed series Wednesday. “We some are predominantly rather quiescent and precise backstage people, but we person the quality to beryllium capable to spell retired and spell to dinner. This is Catherine connected the reddish carpet…This is my beauteous hubby Michael connected the reddish carpet. And past we spell location and adjacent our doors. And we person a precise elemental beingness wherever we conscionable bent a lot, and we person a batch of interests.”

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