Retired American actor Michael Douglas, known for his appearances in Fatal Attraction and Wall Street, revealed that he and the late Rob Reiner previously spoke about the difficulty of their sons’ addiction problems.Michael Douglas, who appeared in Rob Reiner’s movies The American President (1995) and And So It Goes, was featured on the CBS News special Rob Reiner: Scenes from a Life that aired on Sunday and spoke about how he and the now late director had conversations on the struggles of being a father of a child with addiction issues. View this post on Instagram Instagram Post“With this terrible tragedy, we're realising how much pressure he was dealing with in his personal life with his son. I also had a son who had drug issues. And I'm happy to say he's overcome them and he's living a prosperous life. But we talked a lot about that: What you can do as a parent, what you can't do.”Michael Douglas added:“So knowing with all of that going on behind the scenes, this was a man who always gave you his best.”Over the years, Rob Reiner has opened up about his son Nick’s addiction problems. In September, Rob told NPR in an interview that Nick was free from drugs for over six years and was in a really good place. On December 14, the director and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Los Angeles home and Nick, 32, has been arrested in connection with their deaths.More details on Michael Douglas’ son’s addiction strugglesMichael Douglas, like Rob Reiner, has been very open about his son Cameron’s battle with addiction. In a 2019 interview with PEOPLE, Douglas shared how afraid he was to lose his son. He revealed that he lost hope at a point and believed he was going to lose Cameron. View this post on Instagram Instagram Post“There were moments when hope dwindled… and then it’s just a train out of the station. Life became a series of crises. I thought I was going to lose him.”In the same exclusive interview with the news outlet, Cameron also discussed how he felt helpless.“I hated the wreckage I saw in my life because of drugs, but I just couldn’t stop.”He added:“It’s the sneaky power, the stranglehold that addiction has when you’re in the throes of it. When you get that far down the rabbit hole, there are a couple of options: there’s prison, and then there’s death.”Also read: Who is Tylor Chase from Ned Declassified? Inside his struggles as viral video shows former child actor living in the streets