Turner apologises to Cage over claims

The Hollywood actress Kathleen Turner has been forced to apologise to her former co-star Nicolas Cage after she claimed that he was arrested twice for drunk-driving while they were making the 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married. She made the claim, along with alleging that Cage was arrested for stealing a Chihuahua, in her autobiography, Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love and Leading Roles.
 
Cage accused Turner of "defamation, libel and slander", in a libel action that also included the British book publisher Headline and the Daily Mail, which repeated the false claims in January in an article headlined 'Why I detest Burt Reynolds and Nicolas Cage, by Kathleen Turner'. Cage's UK lawyer said his Oscar-winning client had "never been arrested for drink driving, dog theft or anything else".

Turner, Headline and the Mail have together made a "substantial" but undisclosed donation to charity in lieu of damages.
 
Cage wasn't the only former leading man the actress turned on in the book. She described Reynolds (her co-star in the 1988 film Switching Channels) as "just nasty" and called William Hurt (who she appeared with in the 1981 thriller Body Heat) a womaniser who eventually "settled down". Although she acknowledged that her Romancing the Stone co-star Michael Douglas had "mellowed" since his marriage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, at the time of filming he was "misogynistic". She also implied that the pair might have had a fling had not his then wife Diandra turned up on set.  Only Cage has taken legal action so far. ·