The former "One Day At a Time" star, Actress Mackenzie Phillips has been ordered into an 18 month drug diversion program by a Los Angeles judge after pleading guilty to a felony drug charge stemming from her August arrest. "I'd like to take this opportunity to thank [law enforcement] for stopping me, and probably saving my life," Phillips said to Judge Keith L. Schwartz. Should Phillips successfully complete her drug treatment, the entire case will be dismissed. Phillips was in court with her miracle lawyer, Blair Berk.
Mackenzie Phillips, 48, was arrested in August for drug possession at Los Angeles International Airport, and was formally charged with two felonies, for possession of heroin and cocaine, as well as a misdemeanor charge of unauthorized possession of a hypodermic needle or syringe. Drugs stuffed into plastic balloons fell out of her pants when she went to sit down after being questioned by airport security.

Mackenzie has been through rehab before.  She battled drug addiction while she was on TV and was fired because of it. She went through rehab but relapsed later. The actress, the eldest daughter of late Mamas & the Papas leader John Phillips, starred as Julie Romano in the CBS television comedy "One Day at a Time," which ran from 1975 to 1984. More recently, Phillips starred as a rock star mom in the Disney Channel series "So Weird."