Catherine Zeta-Jones has revealed she nearly left now-husband Michael Douglas early in their relationship because she thought he didn’t want to have any more children.

Michael already had a grown-up son when the couple met in the late 1990s and Catherine was worried he wouldn’t want to go through the whole family thing again. She told Parade magazine that just before they married in 2000: “I turned to him and asked, ‘Do you really want children?’ I thought for one minute he was going to say, ‘I already have a son, Cameron.’”

“I would then have had to say goodbye. I remember saying defiantly, ‘I can’t live without having children’. And he went, ‘Me too’.”

The couple now have two children together - seven year old son Dylan and four year old daughter Carys - and Catherine added that while motherhood is wonderful, it’s also draining: “I worry about them all the time.”