It’s been weeks since I’ve covered Lindsay Lohan. This is surprising. In late October/early November, there were a bunch of stories about Lindsay being back on the booze and/or drugs and I kind of thought that we were in for another Cracken shenanigan at any moment, likely involving an eight ball, a dozen bottles of Jose Cuervo and a stolen cop car. But I guess Lindsay tightened up a little bit, at least trying to make sure that her shenanigans weren’t as widely reported as they once were. So, why am I writing about her today? Because there’s not a lot going on. And this is just a weird story:
Lindsay Lohan may be working to stay sober — but it’s not just drugs and alcohol she’s steering clear of.
“She has achondroplasiaphobia,” a source tells the new issue of Life & Style of the 5-foot-5 actress, meaning she has a “fear of little people.”
So what exactly happens when LiLo, 27, has a run-in with a really petite person?
“In 2006 at the Chateau Marmont, she was with pals when two little people walked by and she started having a major anxiety attack!” the insider tells the mag of her bizarre fear. “She hyperventilated. Someone had to give her an antianxiety pill to calm her down. She kept saying, ‘I’m so scared of them!’”
Little People of America, a nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature, responded to Lindsay’s fear by suggesting, “Lohan should treat her fear the same as she would a fear of any other protected minority population. If that fails, she might find diversity training to be useful.”
I can’t even imagine having some kind of weird phobia about… little people…? It doesn’t make any logical sense to me, but I guess it’s a real thing. Imagine going through your life and hyperventilating whenever you see Peter Dinklage on Game of Thrones. I can’t even imagine. CB said that it probably wasn’t even a real thing, Lindsay was just trying to get a Xanax. And it’s weird that this happened in 2006, right? Maybe Lindsay was just super-high and paranoid and she thought the little people were out to get her.
Photos courtesy of Lindsay’s website, Fame/Flynet.
That’s some major BS right there.
Likely too much mixed drugs and booze, and she had a panic attack just as some little people walked by. Now she’s drawing on that, like 7 years later, to get more PRESCRIPTION drugs.
The cracken’s not dumb.
Someone bought her a book of Phobias (there are many). She even picked from the A’s.
She seemed okay with Mark Heller, her lawyer.
So funny – what about fear of redheads no offence to other redheads I dye my hair bright red
I need Xanax to deal with my anxiety over Lindsay Lohan being able to get behind the wheel of a car.
+1
Such dumb crap…she just wanted drugs. I can’t fathom someone being scared of little people, my best friend’s roommate was incredibly little…coolest guy I’ve ever met.
Agree…of all the drugs she’s taken she should be more afraid of od’ing than anything or anyone else.
I think it’s just manufactured drama, attention-courting.
Yep, makes me think of a teenage girl over-reacting to a spider, for extra attention and drama.
“oh MA GAWD guys! a little person! They are SOOOO SCARY!! OMG, (giggle, giggle) I’m like totally having a panic attack!”
Get real.
Yeah I don’t buy it, I think she was just looking for a reason to pop a Xanax.
Yeah but why bring little people into it?
Why not just tell a doctor “I have severe anxiety” and wait for your Xanax prescript?
Exactly. But that’s boring. That’s what the rest of us do. lol Only the docs are getting pretty snarky about it dammit. :p
Let me guess, the source was either Dina or Michael Lohan. Yeah, should reliable sources, NOT!!!!!
it’s like she’s too stupid to realize how messed up she is or something. If she just took a year or two to work hard on her mental state, I think she’d be ok. :/
The only thing that might come close is to cut her mother and father permanently out of her life. At this point, I highly doubt anything could help her.
I don’t buy it. But, the last picture posted is surprisingly quite lovely.
I don’t find it lovely, it’s actually kinda scary the place wher her boob is supposed to be but it’ not there. I believe that boob is right about her navel and that’s just not right.
“Imagine going through your life and hyperventilating whenever you see Peter Dinklage on Game of Thrones.”
But I *do*!
He’s just so gorgeous. 😉
Tyrion forever!!!
lol…exactly what I was thinking…”Uh, some of us do, but for a different reason.”
This might be the strangest/stupidest Lohan story yet.
I think Oprah must have locked her down when the recent round of partying stories came out. It won’t last forever though.
Totally agree.That’s why Lindsay has been on the down low.Oprah got a hold of her and made her behave herself.Just wait till Oprah doesn’t have so much control on her.She will be right back to her old self.It’s just begging to come out.
Okay, she can stop now. We’ve officially heard it all.
mehh…why are they talking about 2006?
All that tells me is, she is wasted and screwing up again and they are trying to deflect. Same shit, different day here.
Dem lips in the side-boob selfie…eeeek
How do you even fix it so your lips don’t touch your teeth anymore?
I guess she won’t be going to any Miley Cyrus concerts.
That was my first thought. 😉
Lindsay Lohan in diversity training would be like the real life version of Michael Scott in the Diversity Day episode of The Office.
If you add in a lot of drugs, alcohol, and stealing.
Only thing I got out of this is Peter Dinklage. Such an awesome actor.
Lohan, who?
This is the dumbest story… ever.
And Peter Dinklage ROCKS!
I’m stunned that there’s a name for this phobia.
I have choker-phobia.
Miley Cyrus to the rescue!
Just when you think you heard it all.
LiLo doesn’t look bad in that 2nd photo but overall, she has aged so much. Such a beautiful girl who had the world by the strings and she flushed it all down the drain.
I know she become a punchline but to me its just a tragic story with no happy ending.
I actually am afraid of little people. It’s not a conscious decision & has been since really early childhood but for whatever reason, encounters give me really intense anxiety. It’s illogical and nothing at all else does. But I think she’s just trying to get some drugs.
My sister has the same reaction and it’s not a conscious decision, it’s a reaction that she can’t help having. She doesn’t think little people are bad or that they are any less important and deserving as everyone else, but she gets “freaked out” and anxious around them. 99.9% of the time she keeps her feelings to herself, as she absolutely should, and deals with them internally. However one time she was like blackout drunk at a bar and two little people sat down at the bar and she said very loud “God why are they even here, they are freaking me out so bad!”. It was absolutely awful.
It is very real! I have had the same fear since I was little and honestly I have always felt really awful about it. But I’ve never treated them any different, I do try to avoid them because I’m afraid it will show and I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings. But yeah I’ve never even thought about taking anti-anxiety meds for it so pretty sure she was just trying to score some legal drugs.
I hyperventilate when I see Peter Dinklage, but it’s because that dude is secksy.
hahahahahahaha, etc…
She should of tried Odontarrupophobia, fear of toothbrushes. To score some Xanax. There goes my pledge to myself to being a nicer person. I am ashamed.
No, no, no, you guys. She was totally misquoted; she’s afraid of THE little people….as in non-famous and/or poor people she can’t use or leech off of.
But the comments on The Dink are absolutely spot on. That man is amazing!
I just watched the series finale of Eastbound and Down in which she played Kenny Powers’ daughter. In the credits, they listed all the other guest stars (such as Sasha Baron Cohen and Alex Skarsgård) but her name was absent. Intentional snub or did she ask to be uncredited?
I don’t know that I buy her being scared of little people, and that being an excuse for popping pills, but I do know that fear is very real. I have two friends who have it, they’re terrified of little people. We went to the movies once and the ticket taker was a little person and they literally bolted past him at full speed. I was mortified. Completely irrational, but it is in fact a real thing.
Could someone please explain to me where her boob is in that last photo? When the photo came out there was all this hoopla about exposing her side boob. Is it that saggy thing at the bottom that might be part of her back?
You don’t pop a stupid d*mned pill every time you see something that scares you. We grew up on a farm, my mother is scared of spiders, mice, bats, frogs… and had 3 rambunctious kids falling out of trees, into the river, and getting bucked off horses. She would have been comatose 24 hours a day if she took a pill every time she had a fright.
She was DEFINITELY just high, thinking that two people who walked by just minding their own business were “out to get her.” Sigh. Any excuse for a high will do!
Lindsay Lohan became irrelevant. It’s just like she doesn’t exist anymore. She shows up once in few weeks on Radar or here and it’s like: “What are you doing here. Move. You’ve become old and are replaced by Miley Cyrus”… I predicted it. Same happened last time when she got out of prison or rehab and tried to stay low and quiet. And she just vanished from media for few weeks. BUt of course she couln’t stand to be irrelevant and went in troubles again and it started all over again.
And now identical situation. She was B-list teen star, then become very famous because of troubles with law. Now when she is not in troubles – no one is interested in her, or her new paparazzi pictures. And it’s not like she can release single or movie so that people would have something to talk about. It’s not like she can give interview to some magazine while promoting something. So she just vanished and become old story. Now it feels like she never existed when she is not in our faces every day. That’s how tired everyone are from her. No one even wants to read anything about her.
Of course if she would get arrested again then it will probably start all over again. Lets hope she won’t. And it looks like she really got scared that she can go to prison and doesn’t want to spend another 3 months in rehab. And just stays out of troubles. This is what will happen when she will stop getting arrested – she will just vanish.
@ ST,
To be fair, LiLo wasn’t a “B-list teenage star”, she was the teenage star for a time. “Mean Girls” put her into a category of her own at the time and LiLo basically had her choose of whatever roles she wanted. Then the booze/drugs took over and she never been able to right the ship which in the end, is going to end like a Shakespeare drama (in death).
And to me it is a tragedy. Anytime a person flushes their life down the train but particularly when that person. had
has everything going for them like LiLo. She truly was a beautiful girl who was talented and by all accounts, extremely bright.
She is just paranoid the oompa loompas are coming to claim her as one of theirs because of her “ahem” tan!
On behalf of all the other little people, we’re scared of her too!
I’m with you, she scares the hell out of me.
The third picture makes me wonder if she’s so obsessed with herself that she can’t bypass any mirror — even in what looks like Meeting Room C at the Ramada Wilshire — without taking a selfie.
Except I don’t wonder.
I actually feel for these celebs who can’t handle criticism then fall down the booze hole; isn’t there emotional resilience training, or like, “bounces offa me and sticks to you” boot camp?