Diandra Douglas shades Catherine Zeta-Jones, talks about sons jail sentence
I have some vintage scandal mixed with some new shade. First, the vintage scandal: Michael Douglas and his former wife Diandra had a famously terrible marriage. He cheated on her a lot, they were separated for years, and Diandra put up a huge fight when he wanted a divorce. Diandra wanted money, lots and lots of money. And she got a big settlement and Michael went on to marry Catherine Zeta-Jones (there was some overlap between his extended divorce from Diandra and his relationship with Zeta). Zeta and Diandra never got along and Zeta casually shaded Diandra a few times over the years (mostly about Diandra’s constant decorating and redecorating of Michael’s properties).
Skip ahead to present day. Michael and Diandra have put up a unified front in supporting their son Cameron, who sits in jail after felony drug convictions. Neither parent can believe that all of their money and influence hasn’t made Cameron’s situation any better. Well, Diandra gave a new interview and she’s sounding off about Zeta, about her ex-husband’s marriage and about her son Cameron. It is… um…
Michael Douglas’s former wife has criticised Catherine Zeta Jones after apparently accusing her of selling her private life. Diandra Douglas launched the thinly-veiled attack on the Welsh actress in an interview from the home in Majorca which she still shares with the Hollywood star. It seems to be related to Zeta Jones and her husband selling pictures of themselves and family – including their 2000 wedding – to glossy magazines.
Asked about rumours that Zeta Jones, who is back with Douglas after a brief separation, had tried to buy her half share of the Spanish villa, she retorted: ‘It’s not true. Sometimes people say things without the slightest proof. Why would someone who doesn’t speak Spanish or the local Majorcan language or knows nothing about this culture want a house here? She doesn’t even come here much.’
And responding to a question about why she was ‘less visible’ on the Spanish resort than the Hollywood actors now, Diandra, 56, added: ‘That’s because I don’ t believe in showing off. I’ve never sold photos or kept money from anything and I’ve always given everything away to charity. I’m proud to be able to say that I’ve never turned my private life into showbusiness. Too much public exposure affects children.’
Diandra, Douglas’s wife of 18 years, also revealed she and her jailed son Cameron, 35, ‘meditated for his freedom’ every night for 15 minutes at the same time.
Both the Wall Street star, and Diandra have spoken out in support of Cameron who was sentenced to nine-and-a-half-years in prison in 2010 for selling methamphetamine and heroin possession. A US judge nearly doubled his sentence after he was found guilty of repeatedly breaking prison rules by arranging to get drugs. He was placed in solitary confinement for several months after failing a prison drugs test – and is not scheduled for release until 2018.
Diandra said she can now visit him every other weekend following his release from solitary but told respected Spanish newspaper El Mundo: ‘Putting a drug addict in a jail is like putting a diabetic in a cake shop without treatment. It’s horrible that someone with money and famous parents should receive such tough punishment.’
She also insisted reports she had lost a recent court battle for half Michael Douglas’s salary and royalties from 2010 Wall Street sequel Wall Street 2, were wrong. Diandra was widely reported to have lost a fight to get her hands on the huge fee the actor earned for his role as Gordon Gekko. But she insisted she had instructed lawyers to halt her claim after learning he was ill with cancer.
The Zeta shade is what is. Diandra can’t stand Zeta and the feeling is mutual. There are old grudges there, and I’m not going to pretend that Zeta is some angel who never said a bad word against Diandra. I think Diandra’s anger is misplaced, of course, and that she should be angrier at Michael for the way he treated her for years and years. But whatever. The really interesting part (to me) is this: “It’s horrible that someone with money and famous parents should receive such tough punishment.” That’s really how she thinks. How could this happen to my son? His father is famous and we have money. The only people who should go to jail are poor people or unfamous people.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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