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In last month's GQ, Michael Douglas was quoted as saying: "I don't know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful woman [Jennifer Aniston] to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mean how long is that going to last?" But this week , he's in PR overdrive, claiming that he never said it -- though not very convincingly. "This quote was completely inaccurate," Michael said on last night's Access Hollywood. "When we asked the reporter, and it was a long, lengthy article, maybe 15 hours of tape recording and I asked to hear it on tape and she said, well, I turned the tape recorder off. And so, you know, I don't know what to say." "I'm very upset," Michael said. "I consider him a good friend. He did a picture with Catherine, Ocean's 12, and she does wonderful work for the United Nations, which is very, very close to me." GQ says the upsetting part is Michael's apparent memory loss. "We're fans of Michael Douglas, but GQ stands behind our reporting," the mag said in a statement sent to Access Hollywood. I think it's interesting that it's been a whole month since the article came out and this is the first time Michael is saying anything about it. He could have issued a statement through his publicist at the time if it was so troublesome to him. Also ironic is the fact that the cast of Ocean's 13 was recently announced and Michael's wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, was not asked to reprise her role in the Brad Pitt film. Could one thing have to do with the other?