Michael Douglas says a cult threatened to "destroy" him at a dinner party

Michael Douglas tells Joe Rogan that he was threatened with death by a terrifying cult and how he got away alive.

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Michael Douglas' early instincts kicked in at the right time and place.

Speaking on "The Joe Rogan Experience," Douglas, 82, recalled thwarting a near-death experience with a cult.

Douglas explained that the cult tried to create "a fascinating moment, a togetherness, an emotional moment."

"They invited me to dinner and then they said, 'Well, with a lady friend,' they said ... 'We tried to reach you,'" he recalls.

"We have to have dessert, and they said, 'We've been trying to reach you, and you're not getting it. You don't get it. Therefore, you must be removed."

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When asked by Rogan what Douglass "didn't get," he explained that "they wanted to ... join in, surrender, be a part of it."

"They were going to beat me up," he said. "I remember there was a long silence and I said, 'Well, you did, didn't you?' And they said: "Yes" ... and a long, big pause.

"My girlfriend just started falling apart, peed in her pants and stuff."

Douglas admitted that they thought "he was going to be killed." But instead, he was simply allowed to walk away.

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"Then I said I'm leaving now and they said yes, it's better."

Michael Douglas' One Helluva Ride is now available. (Grand Central Publishing House)

He said there was a moment when he could have easily been killed if he had made "any sudden movement".

"It's weird," he recalled. I've never had many experiences, but the numbness is there. ... This numbness just comes to you, or it did to me. It was just frozen."

When asked what the cult was, Douglas claimed it was led by Mel Lyman, noting that he alerted the police after the ordeal.

Douglas also spoke to the podcaster about his time living in a commune in Santa Barbara during his "hippie days."

“It was called Mountain Drive, a complete community,” Douglas explained. "It was organic. "People lived, you know, it wasn't official."

The Oscar winner wrote about secret affairs. excessive use of cocaine and alcohol; "rehab or divorce" ultimatum from his first wife Diandra. and the painful family struggles that follow him from childhood to fatherhood in his new memoir, "One Helluva Ride."

Douglas described her father, Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas, as a powerful but volatile presence.

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"Kirk Douglas was my father, a flawed man of wild temper and burning ambition," he wrote.

Douglas admitted that his father's behavior scared him and his brother Joel. He recalled Kirk saying, "I yell and scream because I care," and Douglas wrote that Joel endured most of the abuse.

The "Wall Street" star also described the darkest years of her son Cameron's addiction.

"When he was really pressed in New York, I decided to steal him and force him into rehab," she wrote.

Cameron was addicted to cocaine and heroin, used methamphetamine and carried a Glock for protection, Douglas said. In one incident, Cameron brandished a gun in a pharmacy and was nearly shot by police.

At one point, Douglas says, he arranged for two big men to help kidnap Cameron and force him into rehab.

“When we got back, I wanted to take the reins. Kam realized. He looked at me, like, "Dad, how could you?" It was as if I had broken his heart. again."

Cameron realized what was happening and resisted, so Douglas threw the plan out the window.

Cameron later served seven years in prison after a federal drug case. Douglas wrote that her son's return to heroin behind bars led the judge to add 4 1/2 years to his sentence, and Cameron spent two years in solitary confinement.

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