On the finale of her wine-soaked OWN docu-series, Lindsay Lohan confessed that she had been such a mess during filming because she had a miscarriage: “I was sick. And mentally that messes with you.” Most people thought LL was just telling crack lies, but since I don’t want to go to Gossip Hell (it involves bangs trauma and Kellan Lutz), I sort of took the position of, “Hey, who knows? It could be true.” And you know what? It really could be true. Now, I don’t believe that LL was acting like a cracked-out fool because she had a miscarriage. She was acting like a crackhead because she’s cracked-out, and has been for a very long time. But the miscarriage could have happened. Except probably not.
In one of LL’s myriad legal dramas, she had to give some kind of statement/declaration in civil court. The case has to do with her failed leggings line, please don’t ask me anything else about it because I don’t care. So, she had to give some kind declaration, and she used her miscarriage as an “excuse” for why the judge should overturn his ruling or something. Here’s TMZ’s original reporting:
Lindsay Lohan has sworn under penalty of perjury she suffered a miscarriage … which means she better be telling the truth, or she could land in jail. Lindsay made the declaration in new court docs in a $5 million lawsuit over her clothing line 6126.
You’ll recall, Lindsay was given a reprieve from responding to the lawsuit while she was in rehab last year — but even after getting out she failed to respond … so she lost the case. Lindsay wants to undo the damage and she’s using her miscarriage as an excuse.
In the new court docs, Lindsay writes, “I have been overwhelmed since leaving rehab and dealing with my sobriety and a miscarriage.”
There’s been tons of speculation that Lindsay made up the miscarriage story to garner buzz for her Oprah show — or maybe just to get sympathy votes — but these are legal documents … which means she’s under oath. If it comes out that Lindsay lied in the docs … under penalty of perjury … she could face jail time. Nothing new.
That was last week. This week, TMZ reports that LL doesn’t want to actually give testimony (under oath) about her miscarriage, she thinks the court should just take her crack-word at crack-face-value.
This is rich — Lindsay Lohan wants a judge to take her at her word that she had a miscarriage … because she refuses to be grilled about it in court, even though she brought it up herself.
We broke the story … Lindsay is trying to overturn a $5 million judgment she lost over her 6126 clothing line. Lindsay flaked by not filing proper legal docs, so the judge entered a default judgment. Lindsay wants the judge to undo the judgment, because she was dealing with all sorts of drama, including her disembodied embryonic cells.
So the opposing side wants to put her under oath and test her truthfulness about the alleged miscarriage, but Lindsay is balking … her lawyer saying, “The court does not need the media circus that would ensue if counsel is allowed to invade Lohan’s privacy and delve into her mental state regarding her sobriety and miscarriage.”
So, let me get this straight… LL filed paperwork with the court that was all “pity poor me, I’m so focused on my sobriety and I just had a miscarriage, just like I said ON MY DOCU-SERIES IN FRONT OF THE WORLD” and the litigants are like, “Okay, prove it. Prove you’re sober and prove you had a miscarriage” and LL is like, “OMG, I can’t believe you would get so personal and tabloidy, how dare you talk about my sobriety and miscarriage, only I can do that and never under oath!”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Well, that’s that. Last. Bridge. Burned.
She has become so boring. Blah.
I know! There is literally nothing interesting about her. She’s just annoying and depressing. At a certain point, I think she shouldn’t be covered by the tabloids anymore… Watching a person slowly kill themselves isn’t great entertainment.
Someone please put her on a “pure bread stallion” and ride of into the sunset (and rehab).
**Bieber slam in a Lohan post**
They would make an amazing couple… Think of the gossip potential! They would probably OD within a few weeks of dating though…
The dog in the pic with Lindsay looks fed up with her drama as well
Yip… Sounds about right!!
I’m not surprised. For the past 8 years or so people keep taking her at face value when she says she’s sober, why wouldn’t they believe her a out this too? It’s not like she’s got a history of being a liar or something.
Also, LEARN TO BLEND.
The top picture makes it look like she almost has vitiligo. Does she not have any crack money to hire a makeup artist?
(I mean no offense to people with vitiligo by comparing them to the cracken.)
Coke bloat is not a baby, Lindsay.
Nor are period raisons.
For someone so young she sure has saggy boobs.
Classic!
When she was getting that rib tattoo, do you think she held her boob up and out of the way the whole time, or do you think she had a servant do it for her?
HAHAHA! Hilarious and also a bit scary when you picture it
Probably her Life Coach held it up for her.
As someone who had one miscarriage and thought I had a second (at work- while teaching a class of college students no less) I can attest that it is a traumatic experience, one that I felt with privately with my family, without missing work or misbehaving or asking for special consideration. We all deal with thins differently but b-please miscarriages are sad and when they happen early on, super common. She needs to deal with life. Too harsh?
No, not too harsh, luckily it never has happened to me but when I was a waitress, I worked with a girl who had a miscarriage and she missed two shifts then was back in. I think she found working helped her not to mope. Everyone is different but waitressing is pretty physical work in a way, so if she could do it…
Far far far kinder then any of the thoughts that went through my own head. I’ve been lucky, while I have had 3 confirmed (and aren’t the exams needed to do just that just an extra crap cherry on the whole dung sundae to have to deal with!?!) miscarriages, they were all in the near ‘wasn’t totally sure and/or had only just found out I was before I wasn’t again’ line – so maybe I’m just a harsh bitch who doesn’t understand the true devesatation – every word LL says about her situation makes me want to scream and fling various animal feces at her and see what sticks best. (Hmm. Think I should try for a grant and me and LiLo, & James Franco could make it an art exhibit?) It sucks when it happens, your emotions DO go to hell on a bungee cord, you feel like hammered death and the worst is the overwhelming feeling after of – do I talk about it? Do I tell my folks/friends/partner/cat/no one and just deal? Should it be a big thing? Nothing? It’s a lot of miserable uncertainy and ick, everyone deals differently, but I just can’t bring myself to be kind about LiLo anymore. Life happens, even the seriously crappy bits (as the funeral clothes I can’t seem to put away because folks keep dropping in my family would prove) and she has got to just freaking DEAL with that fact and stop being such a relentless and aggressive victim. OWN your shit Lindsay!
Gah. Not to harsh. Kind, sweet and far more human then I’m personally being at the moment. Maybe I should just go back to bed. (Hate typing on my husbands computer anyway, and my replacement one won’t be here before Sunday. Le Sigh.)
Actually, Bridget, the comment the OP made about miscarriage being “common” wasn’t meant to support other women at all.
Lucky, I get sick of hearing people say miscarriages are “common”. The fact is, that death is a common occurrence in itself, which can happen at any point in one’s life. If your mother or grandmother died, would you want someone to say “oh, that is super common – people die every day”.
Think about it.
I hate – actually loathe – people who dismiss miscarriage as “not a big deal”.
Common doesn’t mean “not a big deal” and you’d be amazed at how many women actually find comfort in knowing that they’re not alone, and their body isn’t freakish or broken. A lot of women choose not to come forward if they have a miscarriage and many worry that its something they have to be ashamed of. Its important for them to know that they’re not alone.
A lot of people outright dismiss the mourning of the elderly, too, with things like, “Oh well, s/he lived a long life, right?” In other words, get over it. I don’t think that a miscarriage isn’t a big deal, it’s a loss.
I agree with @Bridget on her take about it.
This is all just so freakin embarrassing, I’ve got terrible second-hand embarassment right now from reading about all of this.
And honestly, why doesn’t she just go ahead and lie under oath? I mean really, it surely wouldn’t be the first time. Does she really have any qualms about lying under oath?
I think if she’s using that as a defense she might have to submit the medical records. Also, if it’s not true I don’t think her assistant would lie if he were called to testify.
She may be self-aware enough to realize she couldn’t fool a lawyer in her cracked-out state. They’d tease out the inconsistencies in her story and then nail her to the wall.
Even the dog in the last photo know Cracken is lame and pathetic.
Looks like the dog is thinking “please get me out of here”.
+1
It really shouldn’t be that hard to prove she would have to gone to a dr but I bet she didn’t. I think it’s a lie but I wouldn’t put it past her to lie under oath about it either. LL just likes to give excuses I think this one is going to backfire in a bad way.
That was my thought when this first came to light. Couldn’t she just submit a doctor’s affidavit? I mean, if it was a super-early miscarriage where she was just late for a few days, got a positive pregnancy test and then got her period, maybe not, but at that point I wouldn’t think she would be so physically messed up (I’ve had a miscarriage so I am not taking them lightly).
I will say not every doctor will see you if you’re having an early one. I was roughly 7 weeks along when I had one and the doctor said if its before 12 weeks most the time your body will “take care” of thing (God it was such a horrible way to phrase that but, those were her exact words) the OB didnt even have me come in for a check up afterwards, just called in some pain pills and told me to rest for a few days. :X
So maybe there is really “no way” to “prove”…. Ew I hate feeling like I’m defending LL. And this is horrible to say, but I think she knew there’d be no way to prove anything which is why she chose this route, to garner sympathy and have no really evidence.
@Mr Stinky FishFace, boy have they changed things since I miscarried. I miscarried at about 9 weeks and even had a D&C performed. BTW tha is not a horrible way to word it and not sure there is a better way. I had a twin that didn’t develop with my last pregnancy and the Dr. said it was common and usually the body just absorbs it. Only reason we knew is because I thought I was having another miscarriage. If it takes 2 weeks (that’s what the excuse was for missing those two weeks of filming was I believe) to get over a miscarriage then there is something more wrong and she should have been to the dr.
Lindsay has to prove not only that she had a miscarriage, but also that the physical and emotional effects of it were so severe that she was unable to give her lawyers instructions to file the necessary paperwork. That’s what this is about – a $ 5 million lawsuit was rendered against her by default because her lawyers did not file defence documents in time.
Yeah, this is not going to work out for her. You can’t submit a reason in a court document and then argue you shouldn’t be questioned about it.
I’m sure there were no doctors involved, otherwise she would have submitted records and asked the court to seal them. She is playing games.
A lawyer is not supposed to make a claim without having researched the background facts alleged by a client to determine their accuracy. So, either it really happened or Lindsay’s lawyer is unethical. Personally, I wouldn’t risk my law license over the Cracken.
SDM, that’s good point. Is she still with Shawn Holley? No way she would risk it.
How do you research an unattended miscarriage, other than asking the client if it’s true? If she says it’s true, you go with that. Unless you have found evidence that it’s a lie.
If there are physician’s records, that is evidence of the veracity of her statements.
So then there should be no problem in proving that her story is true without her having to talk about it.
“Research the background facts”? I’m sorry – that’s entirely false…At least on the west coast where I’ve worked for attorneys for 20 years. You are in fact stuck trusting your client. If she can’t provide evidence, if it is so ordered, that’s on her. This is a civil matter – lawyers just don’t have time to check every statement by their clients. If she can’t provide evidence nothing will happen to either of them– there is no risk to either but the failure of their efforts to have her judgment set aside. If you think about it – this is the reason criminal lawyers don’t want to hear whether or not you’re guilty. (Well that and suborning perjury.)
This is a civil matter and evidence may or may not be required – most judges don’t like defaults… They’d much rather see the case laid out and let each side prove it’s case. The burden on the defense will be low. So I’m betting her judgment will be set aside and the case will proceed.
I’m a lawyer and I can assure you – if we had to do research on everything our clients tell us to verify if they’re telling the truth, we’d never get anything else done! No, you have to take your client’s word for it, draft the affidavits which your clients will then sign based on what they told you. If they lied, it’s on their heads.
I’m not sure Shawn Holley is still representing her, which means it might be that Gringotts goblin — er, I mean, it might be Mark Heller. (He represented Dina Lohan recently, so I think he’s okay with not necessarily being paid so long as he gets his name in the media.)
And if it’s Mark Heller, well heck — losing his license is something he’s an old pro at. It wouldn’t be his first time…
Where I’m from you need a reasonable basis for belief in the truth of facts asserted, so if there are documents, you want to see them first. And if you find out later that your client lied to you, in civil cases, you have to change your pleadings. You can’t just file anything and say, “well they told me it was true.”. You have obligations as an officer of the court to investigate. If I were representing Lindsay, given her history, I would want the documents up front.
I had a miscarriage two years ago at nine weeks. I had three doctor’s appointments plus blood tests prior to a D&C. So I had plenty of paperwork. Lindsay’s miscarriage may be a lie or it may be that she never saw a doctor, maybe her period was late so she assumes she had a miscarriage. Maybe there are no documents, in which case the lawyer would just have to trust Lindsay, which, in my opinion, is too big a leap of faith.
The problem with pathological liars is that they think they’re such talented liars but they’re not. They think that just because people don’t call them on their BS right then and there, that they’ve gotten away with it. They get bolder and bolder and congratulate themselves on what great actors they are, yet nobody’s buying it, so they live in a complete fantasy.
@GG – Pathological liars also lose perspective on the situation so that they can’t see the patterns and outrageous lies that we can. I have a brother who lies all the time and he can’t understand why we don’t believe his BS. I guess they don’t appreciate the story about the boy who cried wolf or the phrase: “Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.”
I willing to go to gossip hell and call her out on another big fat lie. It’s sick saying she had a miscarriage when that pain is so raw real to people that have. It crosses a big line but to her its like saying she has her period and can’t do PE. She is completely fucked in the head and deserves every bad thing that hap
I willing to go to gossip hell and call her out on another big fat lie. It’s sick saying she had a miscarriage when that pain is so raw real to people that have. It crosses a big line but to her its like saying she has her period and can’t do PE. She is completely fucked in the head and deserves every bad thing that happens in her life because she is the reason!!
I love when the liar gets all indignant when you call them out when everyone knows they are lying. I’ve put up with these types of people my whole life so I used to just let them lie but lately I’ve started calling them out and they don’t know what to do because they never have a back up lie… or bother to keep the lies straight. Ugh… so pathetic.
@iggie-
I appreciate your frustration- I’ve been there myself- but calling them out is just winning the battle but losing the war- in the long run this tactic will only make them more skillful and dangerous liars. A better way to mess with them is to make them repeat their most ridiculous lies, over and over again, to different groups of people. Act like you believe these stories and really hype them up.
I know it doesn’t sound like much, but this really gets to liars. They realize that you know they’re lying but they can’t call you out because you’re acting so painfully sincere.
(Sorry for going so OT- this Public Service Announcement was brought to you by Hackerpschorr ; ) )
Im surprised she doesnt claim that sobriety itself was traumatic for her. I would believe that easier than this miscarriage story.
Blohan will somehow wiggle out of this lawsuit too. She’s like crack-coated teflon.
She’s so full of it. I did not watch any of the Oprah thing but I read that she had a dentist appointment to get a veneer glued back on and insisted on having a heavy drug cocktail for sedation. Now way they would have done that if she was pregnant or thought she was and I know they would have went thru a health questionnaire before administering the drugs she was given. heavy duty stuff for a veneer gluing which involved absolutely no pain at all. They could easily disprove it based on that timeline. girl is dumb.
Does ‘overwhelmed with sobriety’ sound to native speakers as ridiculous as it does to me? “And then I was, like, able to remember what I did yesterday and it was just so OVERWHELMING!”
Totally ridiculous, and I’m not defending this trashbag, BUT:
I have a friend who had abused every substance he could lay his hands on for years, since he was like 15. It was a very sad situation. He was like this for years and years. Then he realized that he had an actual life to live and he sobered up. Well, being sober was a trip to him. He told me it was, at first, like a whole new drug. So a person really CAN get to a point where sobriety is so alien to him or her that it actually is overwhelming.
But by saying this LL is also saying that she has been in a heavily altered state, all the time, for years. So much for her “I only did coke 4 times” claims. She’s basically admitting that she’s spent the majority of her life messed up and now sobriety is a whole new ball game for her.
Speaking from the experience of recovering from addiction (although not substance abuse) I can tell you that it is weird once you start stripping all of the drama and problems out of your life. It feels… Unstable. Like riding a bike without training wheels for the first time. The chaos had become your normal, so now normal feels strange. You have to come up with things to fill your time. Like I HAD to start exercising daily, because I had excess energy. Before, the drama always used my energy, and I was emotionally exhausted all of the time. I never had the energy to exercise.
BUT, I had that feeling like twice, and the proceeded to think “Oh wow, now I get to fill my life with all of the hobbies, activities, travel, etc I have always wanted to do.” Lindsay doesnt seem to have ever been in recovery long enough to stay in, if that makes sense. For every few days you stay in recovery (if you want it, and aren’t forced) you seem to have revelations that keep you going. Your realize something you were doing that hurt people you care about, or you realize something good that is now available to you. It’s a bit like losing weight. Just when you want to say “screw it, where’s the cake?!” you lose a pound, and it motivated you to keep going. She is lacking tht motivation, and honestly, probably any motivation to be sober at all.
Yup! She always looks overwhelmed doesn’t she ? But she sure has plenty of time to do whatever TF she wants at ANY GIVEN TIME. She likely just didn’t have funds to hire a lawyer to defend the lawsuit until oprah paid her.
Is the little hobbit guy still representing her?
Hobbits are cute. That guy works in Gringotts.
I don’t believe she had a miscarriage,
But even if she did, I don’t believe she’d be upset about it. She wasn’t (and isn’t) behaving like someone who is planning on welcoming a baby, unless her goal was to have an addicted baby by an unknown father.
And all I can think of is how her teeth are rotting away behind those veneers! Remember how her teeth looked before the veneers were glued on?!!!
I like how the crack-whore expects the court to just accept her crack-lies without question. God, I hope they call her on it and make her prove this whole miscarriage thing. She is nothing but a lying, thieving piece of crack-garbage who should be taken out with the trash
Good luck on collecting any judgement from her even if the award is upheld. Can you imagine how her hustle will have to hustle in overdrive if she has owes 5 million?
And ohhhh the irony of her being sued! She’ll sue you at the mention of her name, but an honest-to-god business that has an actual case against her doesn’t deserve their day in court with her? She’s a hypocrite and a liar.
Even though “a miscarriage happened at home and her body took care of it.” She would have surely been to an ob to confirm pregnancy in the first place. If she expects us and the courts to believe that she peed on the stick, knew she was pregnant and then lost it at home..show over. She lied.
Even if she did have a miscarriage, she said herself that led to about a week of problems for her. In ALL that other time since she’s been out of rehab, she’s had plenty of time to go out clubbing, make appearances, do stupid photo shoots, do interviews, do a show. At some point, she could have dealt with filing papers. It’s not that she didn’t have time, she just didn’t prioritize it. I don’t see how a judge is going to side with her, but we all know she gets away with everything.
She doesn’t want to talk about it in Court because the Plaintiff’s lawyer would grill her like a cheeseburger. She couldn’t keep her lies straight with an experienced attorney asking questions about where and when. It’s one thing to lie in a declaration when you have time to review and revise the document, but in Court, with a stenographer taking down everything, she’d be revealed as the crack liar she is.
The whole reason for having criminal penalties against perjury is to compel people to talk truthfully about stuff they’d rather not talk about at all. I suppose it’s no surprise she doesn’t’ think the rules apply to her. On another note I’ve bad two miscarriages and while they were painful experiences on many levels, I had no real problem picking up the phone and calling work to say I’d be out for a few days so I know it can be done .
I would love, Love, LOVE for this case to be televised. I can see it in my head: Just the right prosecutor who is fed up with her making a mockery out of the judicial system, forces her to confront every contradictory, deceitful thing she’s done on record to establish a very long pattern of lying to avoid responsibility. Can you imagine? Live streaming on CNN or whatever Court TV used to be? They could bring in Oprah, former directors, Samantha Ronson, the married billionaire….? She would finally bring in the ratings she swears she can “if people would just give me a chance!!!!”
Meh! She never learns, doesn’t want to learn and doesn’t appreciate any help she’s given.