Jean Claude Van Damme has spoken about this fling with Kylie Minogue during the filming of 1994 movie Street Fighter.
“Yes. OK. Yes, yes, yes. It happened. I was in Thailand, we had an affair,” he tells today’s Guardian newspaper. “Sweet kiss, beautiful lovemaking. I would have been abnormal not to have had an affair, she’s so beautiful and she was there in front of me every day with a beautiful smile, simpatico, so charming.
“She wasn’t acting like a big star. I know Thailand very well, so I showed her my Thailand. She’s a great lady.”
The Belgian action hero, who stars as the lead villain in Expendables 2, once humorously claimed to have shown Kylie the exercise regime that maintains her famous bottom at the height of the mania surrounding her comeback hit Spinning Around in 2000.
Van Damme is set to make his own comeback in The Expendables 2, his first role in a major movie in ten years. He turned down a part in the first Expendables because he was working on another project. In the second film, he and Sylvester Stallone, whom he describes as his “boyhood hero”, take each other on in hand-to-hand combat.
“The fans, they want to see Muhammad Ali against Frasier,” says Van Damme. “Hand to hand combat so I said to Stallone, `we’re two gladiators! I have to kick the s*** out of you, and then you kick the s*** out of me.’ And I think people will love it.”
In today's interview, Van Damme also discusses the bad decisions that damaged his career, including turning down a $12 million three-movie deal after the box office success of Timecop because he wanted $20 million “like Jim Carrey.”.
“I was f***ed up, man, But you know, it was not about the money,” Van Damme says. “The people in the UK will read this and go, `What a f***ing piglet.’ Sorry for my expression! I was making movie after movie, and in between movies I was doing promotion.
“I was tired. Everything I was touching was making money. Jim Carrey was making a fortune. And I wanted to play with the system. Like an idiot. Ridiculous.”
