Catherine Zeta Jones ‘furious’ at Michael Douglas diagnosis delay
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by Austin
[HMG Celebrity News] – In a sequel to yesterday’s story on Michael Douglas and his battle with cancer, his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones has now told reporters she’s ‘furious’ at the Doctors who failed to spot the disease.
Catherine, 40, who married Douglas in November 2000, said her 65-year old husband had complained of pain in his ears and throat for some time, but the walnut-size tumor was only found three weeks ago.
“It makes me furious they didn’t detect it earlier,” she told the Mail. “He sought every option and nothing was found.”
But Catherine wasn’t greatly surprised when the cause of Michael’s discomfort was finally found.
“It wasn’t a huge shock,” she recalled. ‘I knew something was up. He knew something was up.”
Mr. Douglas has since begun an intense eight-week course of chemotherapy and radiation, but the cancer is now at stage four – meaning it’s grown, and spread to his neck and other parts of his head. Which is far more dangerous.
But while Catherine is furious about his delayed diagnosis, her husband seems more understanding.
“It had been bothering me for a while. I went through a litany of doctors and tests,” he told Dave Letterman on Tuesday. “These things sometimes just don’t show up.”
Dave then asked if he thought the doctors had found the cancer earlier enough
”I sure as s*** hope so!” was the measured response.
Meanwhile, Catherine says that she and Michael have now broken the news to their two children, Dylan, aged ten, and seven-year old Carys. But she’s having a hard time watching her husband being weakened by the disease.
“I know I should be stronger, but the hardest part is seeing his fatigue, because Michael is never tired.”
Douglas has been given an 80% chance of recovery by his doctors. We’ll keep you advised how that goes…
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