Nick Cannon penned a supportive letter for Amanda Bynes, in which he discusses how Hollywood can negatively affect a person and asked that the public doesn't judge the 27-year-old actress he referred to as "family."

"When a person is told all of their life that they are awesome, the best, the greatest, and they are catered to every moment of the day... Anything you ask for or want, the world gives you, at some point you are bound to self-destruct" he wrote in the letter posted on his website on July 31. "I call this 'access to excess.'"

The letter, he said, stems from the fact that the he's been bombarded with questions about his former All That co-star. These questions include whether or not the two have spoken and if he's helping her with her rap record.

But now that the Easy A star is detained on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold, Cannon wants the public to know that her situation isn't one to joke about. He continued his letter explaining what factors possibly added to her current state.

"The question is, when this destruction occurs, who is there to help put back the pieces. What do you do when you have no solid support system? When you feel like your friends are talking behind your back. When you feel like your co-workers are jealous and out to competitively sabotage you. When you feel your family has turned your back on you. When you feel like you parents have a conditional appreciation for you and only really love your money," he added. "You find yourself alone in that dark hole."

The Wild 'N Out star also offered Bynes kind words of support and encouragement.

"So I say to my sister Amanda Bynes you're not alone. I'm here for you. I understand. I care and I appreciate you, because that's what family does and that's what family is for," he wrote.

An old photo of Cannon and Bynes from the set of Nickelodeon's All That appears at the end of the letter.

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