The Most Embarrassing Celebrity Spouse Confessions

Michael Douglas revealed he had throat cancer in 2010, with The Guardian reporting he told viewers of The Late Show with David Letterman that the cancer — stage 4 — had spread. By June 2013, the actor was gratefully cancer-free while promoting his latest project, discussing his illness frankly with The Guardian ... perhaps a little too frankly. According to Douglas, "Without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus ... it's a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer. And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it."

Douglas and wife Catherine Zeta-Jones subsequently separated that August, with The Sun citing sources who claimed the split was over his cunnilingus confession (they reconciled by April 2014).

Two years later, while speaking with the Daily Mail, Douglas was asked to clarify whether he had actually implied that oral sex cures throat cancer. "No, I was trying to make a public service comment," he said. "It was one of those things ... and I so regretted any embarrassment that it caused Catherine. And her family."

When it comes to using one's mouth to pleasure a partner, former NHL player Brooks Laich apparently took the concept and ran with it. As he revealed in a 2019 edition of his How Men Think podcast, he declared that then-wife Julianne Hough (she filed for divorce the following year) "really enjoys" when he sucked on her toes. "True story," he said (via People). "Hey, we play around. Why not?"

However, the Dancing With the Stars alum subsequently insisted that, in fact, she did not derive any satisfaction by having her toes inside Laich's mouth. "There was definitely something he misquoted on one of his podcast episodes, though," Hough said in an interview with People. "He was like, 'Let me clear that up.' He likes to suck on my toes, I don't like it!"

Indeed, Laich also divulged that the toe-sucking was not reciprocal. "No, I would never [have her do that to me]," he said (via People). "My toes are in skates and workout shoes. I can shower and soap them up, but I would never."

Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have been together since 1983. During a 2017 visit to the now-defunct Harry talk show (via People), Russell revealed the couple's very first intimate encounter featured an unexpected cameo from the LAPD.

The night of their first date, they wound up at a house that Hawn had just bought and was about to renovate. "We eventually found our way upstairs, looking around at imaginary furniture and we were in the imaginary bedroom, now, and we are realistically having sex," Russell said with a laugh, "when the police walked in because we had to break into the place to get in." 

Hawn later related her own embarrassing bedroom story on The Late Late Show. As host James Corden told her, Russell had guested on the show a few days before and told "the sweetest story" about the couple re-watching their comedy, Overboard, together. Hawn, however, had more details to add. "First we were going to make love, and that just put the whole kibosh on that," she recalled. "And it's not like that happens every day."  

There's not much about Chrissy Teigen's life that she hasn't shared with her fans, but "Candid Chrissy" took the concept of TMI to a whole new level in a 2017 interview with Marie Claire (via Cosmopolitan). 

In one part of the interview, Teigen was asked if there was a part of her body that her husband, musician John Legend, had never laid eyes on. Apparently, there wasn't. "John and I had a double date, and we were joking around, and I go, 'John's never seen my butthole.' And John says, 'Are you kidding? Every time anyone does anything doggy style, you see a butthole. I see it every time,'" she divulged. "I was like, 'We are never doing it doggy style again.'"

That anecdote probably left Legend looking the way he did in a 2015 red carpet interview with Extra, in which Teigen was asked to reveal a "public place you did it." She responded, "Probably the Obama thing?" Legend, looking embarrassed, clammed up while claiming, "I don't know," when asked what Teigen was talking about. "We're not gonna discuss that," he added, while Teigen confirmed their tryst didn't take place at the White House. "Sorry, I'm in trouble now," Teigen admitted as they beat a hasty retreat.

Kristen Bell had a candid tale to tell in an episode of her Momsplaining digital series, speaking with special guest Katie Lowes. Bell was telling the Scandal star that shortly after her baby had stopped nursing, she'd developed mastitis, an inflammation of the breast that results from milk building up in the ducts. Given that she and husband Dax Shepard were in Atlanta at the time, halfway across the country from her doctor in Los Angeles, the fast-thinking actress came up with a clever solution to remove the milk from her painful, swollen breast. 

"So I said to my husband, 'I'm gonna need you to suck this out. We could talk about it, we could be weird about it, or you could just go ahead and nurse,'" Bell recalled. Lowes' reaction was one of shock bordering on horror. "So what do you do... Kristen?" she said with a gasp. "Oh. My. God."

Shepard, Bell divulged, proved to be a trouper, channeling his inner infant by getting in there and sucking out the milk. "He had a cup next to him. He was pulling out and spitting into this cup, and I've never been more in love," admitted Bell. "In my life."

Viewers of Vanderpump Rules are well acquainted with Tom Schwartz and wife Katie Maloney. According to The Daily Dish, during an edition of the Vanderpump Rules After Show, Schwartz offered a TMI revelation about how he once managed to combine two of his very favorite things: having sex and watching TV sitcoms.

Schwartz made the confession when Vanderpump bartender Jax Taylor spilled on a secret he'd shared with him. "Did he tell you the one time he watched Two and a Half Men during sex?" Jax blurted out. "He started watching TV when, what did you say, while Katie was on top of [you]? And Katie found out that you were watching TV during sex? That's something I would do!"

Schwartz had an explanation, and it was, um, interesting. "It was a good episode: it was when Charlie Sheen was still on," he contended. "No offense to Ashton Kutcher; I love him too but I liked it more when Charlie Sheen was on there and I got caught up in an episode and eventually [Katie] set me straight, though."

During a 2012 interview on SiriusXM's The Howard Stern Show, Nick Cannon revealed that when he and then-wife Mariah Carey (they split up in 2014) got romantic, it was her music that provided the sexy soundtrack. As Entertainment Weekly reported, host Howard Stern asked Cannon if Carey ever sang to him while engaged in the act. "Yes! When I'm doing a good job," he responded, adding, "Yo, I ain't got [Carey's 1993 single] 'Hero' yet."

During that same interview, noted the New York Daily News, Cannon revealed that Carey's songs were also his music of choice when he was in the mood and "she's not there," saying, "I don't light candles but sometimes you've got to be reminded what's at home."

Apparently, those comments did not go down well with his then-spouse. "I've answered this question while I was married — mistake!" Cannon admitted in a post-divorce interview with Amber Rose, as documented by Us Weekly. "She didn't like the fact that I told the world that we have sex to her music, but it was true!" he declared. "Can you imagine having sex with Mariah Carey while Mariah Carey is playing in the back?"