I lost all respect for Michael Douglas

I lost all respect for Michael Douglas after reading the biography book written by his first son, Cameron Douglas. I finished it a few days ago and it’s haunting me.

To be fair, Cameron says multiple times in the book how much he respects, looks up to and loves his father, but at the same time, writes jaw dropping accounts of how (in my opinion) Michael neglects and abuses (not really physically) him.
Cameron is a reformed drug addict. It's not always fair to blame the parents for children who fall into drug addiction except this happens because of the people his father put him around in a boarding school. Here he was around healthier people at home. Why is this significant? Michael and his ex-wife couldn't be bothered to parent this child while he was growing up and how he ended up in boarding school to begin with.

Michael was 33 or something when Cameron was born. Yet he was out of town for most of the year, neglecting his son and first wife. It's like he wasn't mature enough to have a family. I'm sorry, but you SHOULD be mature enough to be a husband and father at that age.

It appears as though his second marriage has been somewhat better and he was a decent enough father to his two younger children. I guess he matured enough in his fifties to have a family....WOW.
Basically, Michael was chasing fame, fortune and women instead of caring enough to parent his first child or to be a husband to his first wife.
He certainly made enough money by his early to mid forties to live on the rest of his life, giving him time to be a father and husband.
I don't care if he's a movie "legend" or how much net worth he's amassed. He still probably wasn't a great dad to his two younger children, considering he was still gone a lot to work, albeit not to the extreme he was while “raising” his first child. Also, he and his second wife Catherine, have had a rocky marriage. I know there supposed to be “happy,” but they were separated for a long time earlier in their marriage and there’s still a lot of rumors of marital strain - and that his second marriage is smoke and mirrors - and where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
I think Michael Douglas chased fame and fortune and placed that above his personal responsibilities making him a loser for all intents and purposes.
My dad once told me that behind every great fortune is a crime. What Michael Douglas did (and still did/does) to his first family (and probably to an extent, his second family) is a crime.

I hope this post won't be deleted.