Zeta-Jones rejects film role to stay with cancer-hit husband

Catherine Zeta-Jones has turned down a role in a new Marilyn Monroe movie so she can be with her sick husband Michael Douglas.

Zeta-Jones rejects film role to stay with cancer-hit husband

Catherine Zeta-Jones has turned down a role in a new Marilyn Monroe movie so she can be with her sick husband Michael Douglas.

The Welsh actress had been offered the part of screen siren Vivien Leigh in upcoming biopic ‘My Week With Marilyn’, but declined the role because she doesn’t want to be away from Michael – who his currently receiving treatment for throat cancer – for more than 48 hours.

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