Actor Michael Douglas has apologized in private to his friend Brad Pitt and Brad's lover, Angelina Jolie, after a comment he was quoted as making appeared in a magazine article where he seemed to question their romance.
The movie star now says he was misquoted when he bashed the couple's relationship in GQ magazine and did a special interview with TV's Extra! to issue an apology - and report that he didn't say it anyway.
"It was a lengthy article. It must have been 20 hours of tape recording, so I asked to hear the tape recording and the reporter said, Well, I turned the tape recorder off.' I said, 'Well you had it on for the whole time, so I didn't say it.'"
Douglas admits that even though the quotes weren't his, he still wrote an apology to Brad and Angelina. He adds, "I consider him a good friend and she does wonderful work for the United Nations, which is what I'm also involved in. There's just a lot of pressure on the print media and they get to kind of exploitative quotes to try to attract people for their circulation, so it was unfortunate."
