By Hollie McKay
- FOXNews.com
LOS ANGELES
It is certainly a tumultuous time for Lindsay Lohan, who finds herself back in the headlines after her father Michael called police to her Los Angeles home last week in what he claims was an attempt to stage an intervention and have his youngest daughter, 16-year-old Ali, removed from Lindsay’s residence. But despite Lindsay’s repeated Twitter outbursts against her “crazy” father, we’re told Michael is hiring a team of professionals to accompany him to the court house in the hopes of acquiring a court order that will force Lindsay into rehab and ensure Ali is removed from Lohan’s home. On Monday, Michael apparently signed up with Gloria Allred’s daughter, attorney Lisa Bloom and met with chemical addictions specialist Marty Brenner to launch his plan of attack.
“Michael just wants the best for his children, Lindsay is out of control. Ali has been living with her, supposedly getting home schooled, but we don’t know who is monitoring her,” Brenner told Tarts. “There is no reason she should be living there, she should be at home. Nobody is looking out for Lindsay either, Dina keeps saying she has no problems.”
We’re also told that Lindsay often calls and texts her “estranged” father in times of need, but in the public light plays out as if she has nothing to do with him – which confuses Michael greatly.
“He is first of all going to try and talk to Dina and see if they can all work together as a family unit and force Lindsay to get help but that probably won’t happen,” said Brenner. “Her friends have given up on her, if she doesn’t get help, Michael knows she is going to die. No questions about it. She is a loose canon.”
However Dina told Us Weekly on Monday that her daudaughters have temporarily left the home as they are “so scared” of their father and all three intend to file restraining orders against him.
Dina also defended her eldest daughter as being a “good role model” for her 16-year-old. But aside from hiring a group of pros, the first thing Michael Lohan has been told to do is to stop talking to the press.
“He’s trying to help but has gone about it all the wrong way. He’s been drawing attention to the issue the only way he knows how,” added Benner. “No more media.” And while Michael’s new goal is to keep his press-loving mouth closed, Linds has vowed that she is done with partying.
“Last night never again believe it or not she’s done with the club scene,” Lilo Tweeted on the weekend. "I’ve learned my lesson – sometimes it just takes a glimpse of reality.”
Let’s see who lasts the longest…
McKay, Hollie. “Micheal Lohan Calling on a Judge to Stop Daughter Lindsay from ‘Dying.’” Fox News. Fox News Network, 27 April 2010. Web. 27 April 2010.
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As a society we find it exciting, enthralling even, when a movie star overdoses on drugs and ends up in a hospital. We think it's exciting when a famous couple fights and breaks up or a celebrity is seriously injured.
ReplyDeleteWhat if we turned on our radio and heard, "Lindsey Lohan is doing just fine. She turned out to be a beautiful, kind, and talented young women."
Would we switch it back off, disappointed and dissatisfied?
After hearing so many news reports about celebrity fights, fashion mishaps, and personal struggles, I would find it refreshing to hear about a star who did something that could be considered "normal," such as earning a college degree. When I read about how Emma Watson was planning on attending Brown University a while ago, I wasn't only excited because I'm an avid Harry Potter fan. I was elated to hear that someone involved in something as popular as the Harry Potter films wasn't letting her fame get to her head and was willing to try to live like any other person her age would.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was amused and slightly perplexed by the fact McKay seemed to address the issue of the media exaggerating celebrities' actions briefly in the article itself. McKay mentions that Lohan's father claims he keeps in contact with his daughter on a regular basis while various reporters claim that the two are "estranged." When it comes to celebrities, it seems like the media reports on anything that the public will find shocking, regardless of whether it is actually true.
I must admit, as soon as I saw "Lindsey Lohan" I stopped reading the article. I've never cared about celebrities or their lives. Tell me how they do their jobs, not how they live their lives.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the ever popular celebrity story. I find celebrity gossip useless and annoying because their lives never have, don't, and never will affect my life. I personally don't see what is so great about gossiping about a celebrity's personal affairs. The media doesn't comment on my neighbor Joe Schmoe's life, so what makes listening to Lindsey Lohan's any more important? I credit Microsoft Word in that spell check recognizes Schmoe and Lohan as misspelled words, but the media flocks over Lohan and not my hypothetical neighbor. The media, and discourse in general, focus on celebrities because for some reason, hearing about famous people's problems are much more exciting than paying attention to your own problems or hearing about your neighbor's problems. Something like spell check realizes the craziness of something like this, and it lets me know that my last name, Schmoe, and Lohan are all on one, equal level: misspelled.
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