After a rep for the "Beyond the Candelabra" actor insisted Douglas, 68, never said he contracted throat cancer from oral sex, the British newspaper has released audio of the interview to prove he did.
"He wants to make it very clear he never said that was the particular cause of his particular cancer," Douglas' publicist, Allen Burry, previously told the Daily News.
In a 32-second audio clip of the interview now posted to the Guardian's website, Douglas presents cunnilingus as the answer when the newspaper reporter, Xan Brooks, asks if smoking and drinking overloaded his system - in reference to the conversation about his throat cancer.
"Do you feel, in hindsight, that you overloaded your system?" Brooks asks. "Overloaded your system with drugs, smoking, drink?"
"No. No," Douglas replies. "Ah, without getting too specific, this particular cancer is caused by something called HPV, which actually comes about from cunnilingus."
Continued in the written article - Douglas, who has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000 added, "I did worry if the stress caused by my son's incarceration didn't help trigger it. But yeah, it's a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer."
Speaking at an American Cancer Society event on Monday night, Douglas attempted to downplay the media firestorm created by his comments.
"I've become, I think, in the past 24 hours a sort of poster boy for oral cancer, and just so you all understand, I think we would all love to know where our cancer comes from," he said.
"I simply, to a reporter, tried to give a little PSA announcement about HPV, a virus that can cause oral cancer, and is one of the few areas of cancer that can be controlled, and there are vaccinations that kids can get. So that was my attempt."
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