Overview
- Douglas published One Helluva Ride, released Tuesday, Oct. 6, which offers a wide‑ranging account of his affairs, decades of substance use, and his cancer battle.
- He says the long‑rumored Basic Instinct liaison was a concealed affair with co‑star Jeanne Tripplehorn and told reporters he contacted Tripplehorn before including the episode.
- Douglas recounts on‑set incidents from Basic Instinct, saying an explicit sex scene left Sharon Stone’s upper thighs red and chafed from his stubble and that director Paul Verhoeven suffered a burst artery and heavy nosebleed that halted filming for days.
- He also describes an early‑1960s period as a San Francisco hippie and later cocaine use, including an episode in which he says he and Rolling Stone co‑founder Jann Wenner used cocaine with O.J. Simpson.
- Most of the revelations come directly from Douglas’s memoir and contemporary interviews and currently lack independent contemporaneous corroboration, so they are likely to prompt further reporting and responses from those named.