Calling the misquotes “unfortunate,�? a Michael Douglas sat down with Extra to set the record straight about a controversial article.

"It was a lengthy article," he says. "(It) must've been 20 hours of tape recording, so I asked to hear the tape recording and the reporter said, 'Well, I turned the tape recorder off.' And I said, 'Well, you had it on for the whole time, so I didn't say it.'"

The 61-year-old actor, a "Messenger of Peace" for the United Nations, tells "Extra" he wrote the high-profile couple an apology and considers Pitt "a good friend, and (Jolie) does wonderful work for the United Nations, which is what I'm also involved in."

Andy Ward, the magazine's executive editor, fired back in a statement Monday, saying Laskas "spent many hours over the course of four months with Michael Douglas. His comments about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie along with many other quotes from that long night at a hotel bar in Washington, none of which he is disputing are in Jeanne Marie's notebook.