` ` It 's been a wild six - month ride , '' Michael Douglas says . The actor lost 32 pounds from radiation treatment , but he has gained 40 pounds . His weight - gain methods : increasing muscle mass , ` ` eating like a pig '' He came back for 10 days and came up to the apartment every day to see me because I think that some of these photographs and , you know , who knows if they 're touched up , '' Douglas said . He says paparazzi had a ` ` sort of a macabre look out of sort of watching me ''
` ` It 's been a wild six - month ride , '' Michael Douglas says . The actor lost 32 pounds from radiation treatment , but he has gained 40 pounds . His weight - gain methods : increasing muscle mass , ` ` eating like a pig '' He says paparazzi had a ` ` sort of a macabre look out of sort of watching me ''