Michael Douglas says Danny DeVito swallowed joints during a police stop after the pair found themselves carrying marijuana at a particularly inconvenient moment.
Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Douglas recalled that he and DeVito were driving to an event with several joints in the car. Their journey became more complicated when flashing police lights appeared in the rear-view mirror.
Why did DeVito eat the marijuana?
According to Douglas, he got out of the car and approached the officers. The Fatal Attraction star admitted that he had made an illegal left turn, apparently hoping that a straightforward confession would keep the encounter brief.
That left DeVito alone in the vehicle with the marijuana. Rather than wait to see whether police would search the car, he chose a more immediate disposal method and swallowed the joints.
When Douglas returned, he discovered that the evidence had disappeared into DeVito. It was effective in the narrowest possible sense, though unlikely to feature in any official legal guidance.
How did Michael Douglas tell the story?
Douglas laughed while recounting the incident to Rogan, presenting it as one of the more chaotic episodes from his long friendship with DeVito.
He did not provide further details about when the traffic stop happened, where it occurred or whether officers issued a ticket for the illegal turn. The central point of the story was DeVito’s rapid response to the possibility of police finding the drugs.
No search was mentioned in the account, and Douglas did not say that either actor faced drug-related trouble afterward. DeVito’s improvised solution therefore appears to have achieved its purpose, while also giving Douglas a story that remained memorable enough to share years later.
