Michael Douglas opens up in the new Vanity Fair about the mistakes he made with his son Cameron, and how he is trying to do a better job with his family with Catherine Zeta-Jones.  Cameron faces at least ten years in prison for trafficking meth.

Michael told Vanity Fair that the situation facing his 31-year-old son, Cameron “is one of those worst-case scenarios.”

“Anybody who has a relative or child in substance abuse has some idea of what this feels like,” Michael said. “It will ultimately be a painful lesson and very expensive as far as time is concerned. I don’t wish it on anybody, but then, you know, look, everybody’s got difficult things in life.”

Michael can’t help but see his own role in Cameron’s fate. “My priorities were very similar [to my father's],” he said about Cameron’s formative years. “Career first.”

During Michael’s own childhood, his father, the actor Kirk Douglas, was distant and volatile to his young sons. “He was a very intense, talented survivalist,” Michael said. “He was consumed with clawing out and making something of himself, and he probably was a little early in his career to have children. Certainly didn’t get a chance to enjoy them until later in life.”

About himself, not Cameron, who also pursued acting, Michael said, “The history of second-generation actors isn’t great in our industry. It’s kind of a tragic road, actually.”

When Kirk suffered a stroke, in 1996, five years after he’d survived a helicopter collision that took two lives, he decided God was trying to punish him, and with the encouragement of his wife he started studying Torah, was Bar Mitzvahed, and began, as he put it, “an audit of my life.” Michael said that he and his father, who is 93, have never been closer, and that the stroke was the best thing to happen to him. “He’s doing scarily well,” Michael said.

Michael’s relationship with Catherine Zeta-Jones gave him the chance for a do-over at marriage and fatherhood. Catherine said their courtship “was nine months of telephone calls and surprise flowers and a dinner here and a drink there.”

Their wedding, in 2000, was greeted with snarky remarks about the 25-year age difference, Michael said: “It was thrown up at you constantly. I felt bad for her.”

Michael said that he has learned a great deal about what makes marriages work: “We always tend to be kinder or make more of an effort to strangers than we do to the person closest to us.”

For Michael, fatherhood is now a source of joy and not guilt. Catherine said that the couple is determined that their kids not be raised by nannies, and that “they need to have a consistency and schedule in their life just like every other kid. They need to form friendships, turn up on their out-of-school curriculum, do their Scouts, and their ballet, and their hip-hop.”

Of Michael’s relationship with their children–Dylan, 9, and Carys, 6, Catherine said, “I’m sure if he could breast-feed, he would have. He has more time to spend with them and to focus on them.”

The April issue of Vanity Fair hits newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on March 3rd and nationally on March 9th.

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Jessica Alba and Cash Warren take Honor Marie to the park.

Catherine Zeta-Jones starting to look like Posh as she continues to shrink.

The Brangelina bunch return to Venice.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise with Suri in Spain.

Christina Aguilera and family out Christmas tree shopping!

Cameron Douglas opens up about how Catherine Zeta-Jones brought his father back to him.

An expectant Holly Willoughby at the Brit Awards.

A whole bunch of amazing pics of the Cruise clan at Disney!

(In the above pic the luminous Catherine was snapped at ’A Fine Romance’ to benefit the Motion Picture and Television Fund on November 8th)

Catherine, 39, has admitted that she gets angry if she misses a mealtime.

“I’m pretty easy-going, which comes from all those years of doing theatre. I’m not a grandiose movie star at all, but I do like to know when lunch is going to be,” she said.

“It’s really important because I get the shakes when my blood-sugar levels start to drop. If I don’t get food when I should, I get upset,” she stated.

And her anger is not limited to food, as Catherine also revealed that her children – Dylan, 8, and Carys, 5, - know never to cross her because she can be strict.

“I’ve realized that you can actually say what you need to say and people can tell a lot from my tone of voice. My kids know when I raise my finger or do ‘the eyes’ that I mean business. I don’t put up with much. I’m kind to everybody. But if you cross me, you know,” she added.

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Catherine, 39, and husband Michael Douglas were snapped at the United Nations Association Global Leadership Awards Gala at The Waldorf Astoria in New York City on October 1st. Catherine looks stunning as always!

Catherine has confessed that her cooking skills are so bad that once she almost set the kitchen on fire!

She said, “I’m a terrible cook. I can microwave chicken nuggets well. This is a true story – I actually burnt a pan once. There wasn’t a fire but it was smoking and I got a little scared. So that was the first and last time I tried to cook.”

It is refreshing to hear Catherine speak so honestly of her lack of Martha Stewart ambitions. Though mastery of the kitchen and all things domestic is very wonderful, sometimes it gets a little tiring to hear the likes of Katie Lee Joel, Gwyneth Paltrow and Victoria Beckham wax poetic about their passion for cooking and baking all sorts of gourmand creations. It is especially frustrating as I don’t believe for one second that they actually eat any of the food they prepare, and they probably prepare one meal a month while all the rest are prepared by personal chefs! :)

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Being the grandson of Kirk Douglas and the son of two Academy Award winners it’s no surprise that Dylan Douglas, 8,  has expressed an interest in acting. 

Catherine has revealed that when her son decided to take up acting classes, he wanted to make sure that his teacher knew just how much potential he had.

“My son went to his first drama lesson and he turned to his teacher and said, ‘Don’t worry, I’m a really good actor. It’s in my genes’,” she shared.

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Catherine has revealed that she and Michael have kept their son Dylan, 7, and daughter Carys, 5, so sheltered from fame that they think their dad is a chef.

“Dylan was doing occupations at school recently and the teacher said, ‘You have to go home and ask Mummy and Daddy what they do’,” explained Catherine. “So we were trying to explain to Dylan that we make movies, and he went to Michael, ‘Hang on. Mama makes movies, you make pancakes!’.”

“So my two-time Oscar-winning husband with a career of 40 years looks at me and says, ‘Oh, it’s come to that!’,” she laughed.

The couple have chosen to bring up their children away from Hollywood, opting instead to make a Bermuda hideaway their permanent home. “For me, it was the ideal choice,” said Catherine.

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The gorgeous mother-of-two, 38, and husband Michael Douglas, 63, were snapped on holiday in Saint-Tropez Monday in Saint-Tropez. Catherine and Michael were photographed arriving at the swanky Club 55. Club 55 is also popular with Paris Hilton, Mick Jagger and Bono.

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