Mike Ricca/Simon & Schuster/AP Photo/Chris PizzelloJennifer Ridha is finally opening up about falling in love with her client, Michael Douglas' son Cameron Douglas.
The attorney detailed her whirlwind relationship—which has since ended—in The Hollywood Reporter and how she even went so far as to smuggle drugs in prison for the convicted drug dealer.
"I do not posit that ours is the greatest love story of all time," she explained to the magazine. "Or even, really, a love story at all. I labor under no misapprehension that had my crimes not been discovered, we would in any real sense have remained together. I am not the one who got away. I am only the one who got arrested."
Ridha was arrested in 2010 for providing contraband in prison. After she had smuggled pills to Cameron, he shared them with a few inmates—including one government informant, unknowingly.
She described the experience of sneaking the drugs inside the penitentiary, saying, "By placing the pills in my pocket, I feel unsure that they will go unnoticed."
"The guard will be so preoccupied with his comprehensive tour of my chest region that he will not pay any attention to my jeans. I'm right. It turns out I am quite the criminal mastermind."
After being charged, Ridha's own lawyer made "an appeal for leniency," explaining to the "government that my personal circumstances contributed to my feelings for Cameron and my decision to commit crimes on his behalf."
She continued that her attorney "will explain that I had recently undergone a painful breakup; that I was miserable both personally and professionally; that I was planning a career change in the hope of finding a more rewarding existence. These statements are all true. What they imply, however—that had I not been an unhappy mess when I met Cameron, I would not have developed feelings for him—is probably not."
Ridha is currently a member of the bar in New York and California as well as a graduate student in criminal justice and urban anthropology at NYU.
Cameron is eligible for release in 2017.