Difficult time: Catherine Zeta-Jones, pictured here in New York yesterday, is bracing for her stepson's sentencing on April 14Catherine Zeta-Jones has written to a New York judge asking him to spare her drug-dealer stepson Cameron Douglas a harsh prison sentence.
Zeta-Jones was joined by Cameron's mother Diandra De Morrell Douglas, his grandfather Kirk Douglas and basketball legend Pat Riley in writing letters of support on behalf of drug dealer Cameron.
Douglas, 31, faces a minimum of ten years behind bars for selling crystal meth - unless the judge applies leniency to his case.
His famous family is pushing for Manhattan Federal Judge Richard Berman to send Cameron to rehab, instead of prison.
Now the judge has released some of the letters, although not the one by Cameron's father Michael Douglas, 65.
Zeta-Jones wrote that Cameron had been an 'exceptional' brother to her own two children.
'Never in my experience over the years has Cameron shown any signs of the disease that has tormented him, toward his siblings or has ever been abusive to us as a family at any time,' penned the Welsh star.
Heartfelt note: A copy of the handwritten letter Catherine sent to a New York judge'My stepson is a caring, considerate, worthy human being, but never the less, the disease, that for years he has tried to combat, did take over again.
'What is wrong, is wrong, but may all these positive attributes prevail, so that a facility that he is positioned in, will help rehabilitate him,' she added.
Spartacus legend Kirk Douglas, 93, told the judge that it was his dying wish to see his grandson turn his life around.
'Cameron was always a pleasant guy who cared for others,' he wrote.
'Caring and considerate': The actress is pushing for Cameron, pictured here with father Michael Douglas, be sent to rehab rather than prisonsource: dailymail
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