Nicolas Cage has accepted a public apology from his “Peggy Sue Got Married” co-star Kathleen Turner, after suing the actress for allegedly making false claims about him in her autobiography.

Kathleen Turner writes in her recently published memoir “Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles,” that Nicolas Cage, her co-star in the 1986 comedy “Peggy Sue Got Married,” once stole a dog because he liked it.

“He’d come across a Chihuahua he liked and stuck it in his jacket,” she wrote in her book. British paper the Daily Mail subsequently published offending excerpts regarding Cage under the headline “Why I Detest Burt Reynolds and Nicolas Cage.”

Turner also claims that the Academy Award-nominated actor was arrested twice while they were filming “Peggy Sue” for drunken driving.

Cage vigorously denied the claims and filed a defamation, libel and slander suit against his former co-star, the Daily Mail’s publisher Associated Newspapers and Headline Publishing Group, the book’s U.K. publisher.

Confusingly enough, the defendants have all changed their story, admitting that Turner’s “memories” are untrue.

E!Online reports Cages’ attorney, Simon Smith, appeared in London’s High Court Friday to announce that both publishing groups had acknowledged the offending claims to be untrue.

The Daily Mail said it would publish an apology and remove the article from its website, while Headline will include a correction and apology in printed copies of Turner’s book.

Smith said the Oscar-winning actor was “extremely pleased” with the outcome of the case, reports BBC News, “since he has never been arrested for drink driving, dog theft or anything else.”

The actor was “gratified that the defendants have done the right thing by acknowledging their errors and making amends.” Smith confirmed that they would pay Cage’s legal fees in the case as well as make a substantial donation to the National Adult Protective Services Foundation, a US charity which benefits vulnerable adults.

The question still lingers though – why did the actress write such things in the first place? Coincidentally, her performance in “Peggy Sue Got Married” earned Tuner an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress so one could suppose that she has pleasant memories from the experience.