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Michael Douglas signs autographs outside his Central Park West apartment building on Monday night.
Michael Douglas' public relations team went into damage control mode Monday, insisting the actor never said he contracted throat cancer from oral sex.
“He wants to make it very clear he never said that was the particular cause of his particular cancer,” Douglas’ publicist, Allen Burry, told the Daily News.
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Douglas attends the One Centennial Sensation, the 100th birthday celebration of the American Cancer Society, at the Hudson Theatre Monday evening. “This particular cancer is caused by HPV," he says in a recent interview.
Douglas’ flack was forced to backtrack after his boss, in an eyebrow-raising interview with The Guardian newspaper, blamed his cancer on “a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer.”
“This particular cancer is caused by HPV, which actually comes about from” oral sex, he said.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones won’t get the cancer from husband Michael Douglas, says the expert.
The 68-year-old star of “Basic Instinct” and “Wall Street” had previously blamed the cancer that sidelined him on nicotine and alcohol.
Burry refused to concede Douglas’ words might have caused people to conclude he got cancer from sex. And when pressed whether Douglas tested positive for one of the human papilloma virus strains linked to oral cancer, Burry said, “I don’t think it’s really anybody’s business anymore.”
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A gaunt-looking Michael Douglas pictured in 2010 when the actor was undergoing chemotherapy.
Douglas was honored by the American Cancer Society Monday at the Hudson Theater. “I have one footnote to make,” he said to laughter. “I’ve become, I think, in the past 24 hours a sort of poster boy for oral cancer, and just so you all understand, I think we would all love to know where our cancer comes from.
“I simply, to a reporter, tried to give a little PSA announcement about HPV, a virus that can cause oral cancer, and is one of the few areas of cancer that can be controlled and there are vaccinations that kids can get. So that was my attempt.”
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Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. The actor took a moment to clarify his comments to The Guardian when he was honored Monday night by the American Cancer Society. “I simply, to a reporter, tried to give a little PSA announcement about HPV, a virus that can cause oral cancer, and is one of the few areas of cancer that can be controlled and there are vaccinations that kids can get. So that was my attempt.”
His ex-wife Diandra told TMZ.com that she doesn’t have HPV — and her actor ex didn’t catch anything from her.
Douglas’ wife, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, had no comment.
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