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'No cancer whatsoever': Val Kilmer says Michael Douglas is 'misinformed'

Val Kilmer took to Facebook Tuesday to counter claims by Michael Douglas that The Doors star is battling throat cancer.

The Doors actor, 56, says he hasn't spoken to Douglas in two years

This composite shows actors Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. Kilmer, 56, turned to Facebook to counter Douglas's claims that his former The Ghost and the Darkness co-star is battling cancer. (Phil McCarten/Reuters, Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Val Kilmer says Michael Douglas was "misinformed" when he suggested Kilmer has cancer.

In a Facebook post Tuesday evening, Kilmer said he has "no cancer whatsoever." At a London event on Sunday, Douglas had said Kilmer was "dealing with" throat cancer, "which Douglas was diagnosed with in 2010.

"Things don't look too good for him," added Douglas, who beat the illness in 2011.

Kilmer said he spoke to Douglas nearly two years ago about recommending a specialist for a lump in his throat. The 56-year-old Kilmer said he was treated at UCLA and still has a swollen tongue, but is "rehabbing steadily."

The actor said he's made three films in the last year, including one about his one-man Mark Twain play, Cinema Twain. He also co-stars in Tomas Alfredson's Jo Nesbo adaptation The Snowman, due out next year.