Catherine Zeta-Jones feared she gave husband Michael Douglas 'a heart attack' after surprising him - Yahoo News

Catherine Zeta-Jones gave her hubby the astonishment of his beingness and was frightened it astir ended his life.

During a caller quality connected "The Kelly Clarkson Show," Zeta-Jones explained Douglas has been successful France filming a caller task "for what seems similar a lifetime" and however she came unneurotic with her children to astonishment him for the holidays. She called the surprise, "one of those great, great, large moments."

"The kids and I really amazed him for Thanksgiving. He had nary idea. Carys, my daughter, flew successful from the East Coast. I was present with my son, we flew from here, got into the hotel, nether the screen of night," Zeta-Jones explained. "He came location from enactment and determination we were. It was 1 of those, I thought helium was going to person a bosom onslaught for a minute. He benignant of stumbled backmost and went, 'Oh my God,’ and started crying. It was 1 of those great, great, large moments."

Zeta-Jones, 53, and Douglas, 78, person been joined 22 years aft gathering for the archetypal clip successful 1998.

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"My hubby is 25 years older than me; that’s not a secret," the histrion told The Wall Street Journal successful April 2021. "With immoderate relationship, it wouldn’t beryllium mean if determination weren’t immoderate ups and downs. The changeless is love, is respect. We’ve never, ever mislaid our consciousness of humor, and we bask each other’s company."

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In August 2013, Zeta-Jones and Douglas announced their separation.

The separation lasted 8 months, and the mates reunited successful April 2014. At the time, Douglas said, "I’m brainsick astir her. And, yeah, I deliberation each mates has their hard times."

Zeta-Jones looked to her parents' marriage arsenic a "blueprint" connected what a palmy matrimony looks like, saying she realized it's important to beryllium unfastened and honorable with your partner.

"I deliberation it’s conscionable unfathomable to maine that you would beryllium with 1 idiosyncratic for 18 years, and things are not rosy each day. They’re conscionable not," she told the "Today Show" successful 2017. "My parent and begetter were joined for 52 years, and they were a fantastic blueprint for me, due to the fact that I’ve seen the good, the atrocious and the disfigured with them, and they’re inactive going strong."

The "Wednesday" actress precocious revealed to the "Good Morning America" hosts who, retired of the 2 of them, is amended astatine acquisition giving. She had nary occupation admitting Douglas would instrumentality location that prize, joking she "peaked astir twelvemonth eight."

"If I'd known we'd beryllium joined truthful long, I would person held backmost connected it. I wasn't envisioning a 22 year-er. This is Hollywood, man," she joked to Robin Roberts, Michael Strahan and George Stephanopoulos.

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Zeta-Jones revealed her hubby is large astatine picking retired jewelry, saying that "is thing I truly bash emotion and treasure" owed to the "sentimental value, obviously."

Year 8 successful their matrimony was the twelvemonth Zeta-Jones thinks she gave the champion acquisition — an aged schoolhouse blistery rod.

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"A blistery rod that helium had the accidental to telephone up — a 1930s coupe," she clarified earlier speaking to the camera. "I'm going to get it incorrect Michael, I'm sorry. It looks similar a small Bugsy Malone car. … It's truly great. And past I peaked! It's been socks ever since."