Michael Douglas’ rep is now denying Michael Douglas ever told the Guardian that oral sex led to his throat cancer.
“He did not say cunninlingus was the cause of his cancer,” Burry said. “He didn’t specifically name a cause.”
While somewhat true, the Guardian still didn’t want there to be any confusion and have people think they were putting words in his mouth so they released the audio transcript.
Xan Brooks: Do you feel, in hindsight, that you overloaded your system? Overloaded your system with drugs, smoking, drink?
Michael Douglas: No. No. Ah, without getting too specific, this particular cancer is caused by something called HPV, which actually comes about from cunnilingus.
While Michael’s rep is technically correct that he didn’t directly link his throat cancer to cunnilingus, he pretty much did. There’s not a lot of room for interpretation here. It didn’t sound at all like he was just throwing out an interesting factoid. It was more like, “Ate too much pussy, got cancer.”