Michael Douglas detailed smuggling drugs to pay for college when his famous father, Kirk Douglas, cut him off financially.
On the Friday, October 9 episode of Real Time With Bill Maher, Douglas, 82, appeared as a guest to promote his new memoir One Helluva Ride.
“I think you and I share something in common about getting through college together,” Douglas pointed out.
To that, Maher acknowledged, “What it is that we discovered is that when you buy pot in one place and sell it in a different place, the difference in those two amounts can be very good for living your life.”
“Especially between East Coast and West Coast,” Douglas added.
When Maher mentioned that Douglas “took actual suitcases, entire suitcases” of pot “on a plane,” the Romancing the Stone actor explained why he did so.
“What happened, when I turned 21, Dad wrote me a check — $10,000 — he said, ‘Great son, you’re on your own,’” Douglas recalled. “I said, ‘Well, Dad, this is wonderful, but I’ve got a couple of years of tuition left in school