After supporting husband Michael Douglas through his battle with throat cancer, Catherine Zeta-Jones needed medical care for herself. After “the stress of the past year,” her representative said in a statement, the movie star “made the decision to check into a mental health facility for a brief stay to treat her bipolar II disorder,” a condition similar to bipolar I disorder, characterized by mood swings from high to low.
Zeta-Jones has been hit with a series of devastating events: In 2010, her stepson, Cameron Douglas, was sentenced to five years in prison on drug charges, and four months later, her husband was diagnosed with cancer. Compounding the stress, Michael Douglas was also slapped with a lawsuit by former wife, Diandra, seeking half of the profits from his hit movie, “Wall Street: The Money Never Sleeps.”
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