Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones decided to take a break in a relationship

It looks like another celebrity couple on the verge of breaking up, and rumors have been circulating about this for a long time, as "Gossip," he wrote earlier this month. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones stopped appearing on the red carpet together, the last time they were photographed together at the end of April. Vacation actors also performed separately: Douglas right now resting on his yacht off the coast of Sardinia, while his wife and children remained in New York.

Has learned correspondents magazine People, 68-year-old Michael and 43 - year old Catherine "took a break in the relationship." According to a pair of friends, neither spouse has not filed for divorce, but after the Cannes Film Festival, where Douglas was driving without his wife, the actors decided to live separately.

Celebrities were married in 2000 and have two children - 13-year-old Dylan and 10-year-old Carys. A source close to the family said:

they care most about the children and want them to have everything was fine, no matter what happens.

Recently both Douglas and Zeta-Jones experienced not the easiest time of life: the actor was diagnosed with cancer of the larynx, and his wife a few years being treated for bipolar disorder. A family friend said the relationship stars were under threat because of the stress experienced by both.