Michael Douglas Details Escaping Terrifying Kidnapping Attempt as a Child

Thinking quickly, Douglas—whose mom was Diana Dill—ducked into the boiler room to hide, adding, “My pulse was roaring in my ears with such a force I thought the would-be kidnappers might hear it.”

As he hid, the Fatal Attraction actor—dad to Cameron, 47, with ex Diandra Luker as well as Dylan, 26, and Carys, 23, with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones—noticed the feet of the men stomping by “looking for their prey.”

“I waited there as long as I could, then made a break for the elevator,” he shared. “All I wanted was the safety of our apartment. Fortunately, the elevator car was already at basement level. It was an old-style elevator with a glass porthole in the door.”

After Douglas was safely inside, he felt a “thump” against the door as it made its rise to his floor. 

“A man’s face pushed up against the porthole window,” he wrote. “I was hysterical. That face, that moment, remains seared in my brain to this day.”