Michael Douglas Details Rob Reiner Conversation About Sons’ Addiction

Michael Douglas and Rob Reiner had a lot in common.

A week after the Misery director and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead, the Wall Street actor detailed the struggles the couple faced with their son Nick Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders.

“With this terrible tragedy,” Michael said on the Dec. 21 CBS News: Rob Reiner Scenes From a Life special, “we’re realizing how much pressure he was dealing with in his personal life with his son.”

The 81-year-old noted that like Nick, his son Cameron Douglas, 47, who he shares with ex-wife Diandra Luker, struggled with drugs, and that he and Rob had discussed their shared experience.

“I also had a son who had had drug issues,” Michael—also dad to Dylan Douglas, 24, and Carys Douglas, 22, with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones—explained. “I’m happy to say he’s overcome them and living a prosperous life. We did talk a lot about that and what you can do as a parent, what you can’t do. Knowing with all of that going on behind the scenes, this was a man who always gave it his best.”