We knew it would end someday. And we knew it would end with epic drama. Perhaps because the year that Samantha Ronson and Lindsay Lohan spent together was the most dramatic, melodramatic, crazy, enabling, tabloid-friendly, screwed up relationship in a while, it had to end. Now Lindsay Lohan is confirming to E! that the party is indeed over. But in Lindsay’s words, “We are taking a brief break so I can focus on myself.” Oh, Lindsay, who are you kidding? It was always about you.
I’m actually surprised at the “reasons” for the split, as various friends and family members dole out their strategic leaks to the press. People in Lohan’s camp are saying that Ronson’s friends and family basically did a Lohan intervention with her, “smearing” Lindsay to Sam. Ronson’s camp is saying… well, they seem to be hinting at the idea that Sam was definitely the dumper, and that Lohan is crazy. Here’s the E! report:
She was shunned from the party and locked out of her love nest. Now, Lindsay Lohan exclusively tells E! News that reports of her breakup with Samantha Ronson are true: “We are taking a brief break so I can focus on myself.”
The decision was made Monday morning following a rather rough weekend. First, the 22-year-old was barred entry from a Ronson family party on Friday. Then a locksmith was seen paying a house call to Ronson’s abode, where Lohan had resided in recent months.
Still, as of Sunday, insiders insisted the pair had not broken up and blamed the latest drama on Ronson’s family members, who were supposedly engaged in a “smear campaign” to convince the DJ that Lohan was “an outcast and a bully, or a wacko.”
The couple’s tempestuous relationship dates back nearly a year (they reportedly celebrated their anniversary in January) and has survived constant rumors of rifts and splits that often proved false.
In fact, just last week, both Lohan and 31-year-old Ronson were refuting the latest round of breakup speculation.
While Lohan is said to be struggling with the breakup and holding out hope the two will get back together, Ronson seems in a better place, writing on her MySpace page that “aura in pleasanton is very pleasant.”
As for what’s next for the newly single Lohan? She is logging time with her family in L.A. and, as she recently told E! News, on the hunt for more acting work.
From E! Online
People Magazine, on the other hand, has a decidedly anti-Lohan vibe. They’re reporting suggests that Sam is getting unconditional support from friends following the split. There’s also this funny quote, from a source close to the couple: “Lindsay is going to try and twist the situation in her favor, but Sam clearly left her, not the other way around.” Yikes:
“Sam’s family has made her swear that it’s really over,” a friend of Lohan and Ronson’s tells PEOPLE. “They are giving her all the support they can to keep her away from Lindsay.”
Adds another source close to Ronson: “Lindsay is going to try and twist the situation in her favor, but Sam clearly left her, not the other way around.”
Meanwhile, Lohan has reportedly written several messages on her private Twitter page alleging Ronson’s infidelity and drug use led to their breakup. In one message, the actress wrote, “You broke my heart. Now go away. I loved you.”
The on-again off-again pair have not been spotted publicly together in recent days, while Lohan has been a fixture on the L.A. scene, stopping into Chateau Marmont with her sister Ali on April 1, and even jumping on stage to sing along with Lily Allen during the British pop star’s concert the following night at the Wiltern.
Over the weekend, Ronson changed the locks on her house, a friend of the pair confirms. “Sam changed the locks on her house,” the source tells PEOPLE. “Lindsay moved her stuff out as much as she could. She’s basically totally out of the house as far as her stuff and she’s not living there anymore.”
Adds the source: “Lindsay was pretty devastated.”
From People Magazine
Was it ever about love? Or was it just about the drama, the drugs, the attention? The attention would be my guess. Lindsay’s great love affair is with the media and her own self-perpetuating public drama. Even though I hoped all of this wouldn’t end badly, I didn’t think Sam would have the cajones to just up and change the locks on Lohan. At the end of day, Sam must be a lot less crazy than I suspected.
Lindsay and Sam are shown out on 3/28/09. Lindsay is shown shopping on 4/2/09. Credit: WENN.com
I feel a bit sorry for Linds.
Anyone growing up with pimping, attention-whore parents like hers is going to have a hard time with relationships.
She’ll have to figure it out on her own, I think Sam did the best thing by putting her foot down – for both of them.
I don’t know about you, but on my screen, Google Adsense placed an ad reading, “Afraid you’ll be SINGLE FOREVER?!” :D:D:D
Her lesbian friend got a huge pay raise while dating Lohan; without Lindsay she’d be nothing.
I always knew this whole thing was about the attention. But I admit that I am surprised with the fact that this relationship still survived for one year. I was expecting something like one month or two weeks.
Anyway, I wonder what Lindsay will try next. Her fifteen minutes of fame were super extended, but, they’re very close to an end. She’s not talented and she’s not trying, really. Her attitude made people lose respect for her. She’s a joke, no one wants to work with her, no one wants to see anything her name in the cast, no big brand wants to hire her (Fornarina is very “décadence sans élégance” for someone who made ads for Miu Miu) and no one believes her. I wonder how she still manage to get some magazine covers, considering the fact that she has nothing to promote.
I can live with people like Kate Moss or Amy Winehouse being crazy junkies, because, apart from their personal problems, they’re masters in what they do. Kate is the only remanescent of the supermodel era who kept working from the late 80s to our day without any break apart from some months after she gave birth. And, at age 35, she’s the second in the list of the best paid supermodels.
Amy surely can sing and she was the tip of the iceberg that revealed people like Duffy, Adele and her producer (and Samantha’s brother), Mark Ronson.
And Lindsay, what did she have to offer? Parent Trap? Georgia Rules? Just My Luck? Herbie? A Prairie Home Company and Bobby, the only watchable movies she ever did, weren’t even about her anyway. I don’t feel sorry for Lindsay, I think this spoiled little brat needs medical help to get over her issues. Or maybe she needs to live in real world for one day, with people who need to work to get their ways. Or with disabled people who apparently have no reason to be happy, but they’re still trying to live with some dignity.
still manages to get magazine covers, I’m sorry. I was typing too fast.
I’m afraid she has no trump cards left (if she ever had any…). For her own sake, she needs to focus on dressing herself a little better and not fade away into stickwoman again.
As opposed to WHAT Linds ?!!
oh boy, she had to throw in the so I can focus on myself. She couldn’t leave it as is. A raging narcissist I see, she had to make the breakup about her.
“…so I can focus on myself.” Ha! Talk about stating the obvious! Isn’t this what Lindsay has always done anyway? What a complete idiot she is. She had it all and has pissed it away.
“So I can focus on myself”. That’s “I got dumped” talk if ever I heard it!
I still think there’s hope for Lindsay… I mean, she wasn’t exactly piss poor in Mean Girls, even though that movie was all tra-la-la-Lohan and then totally backfired and put Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried on the market.
Oops.
If she can prove once more that she can do a tolerable performance like that, then maybe she still has a chance.
Or maybe she can just go on SNL and make fun of herself. That sounds kind of nice.
Lindsay Lohan is NOT a bad actress and never was. Her “Disney” years were definitely her best. She was immensely talented as a kid…and some of her movies were actually very good. Mean Girls, Parent Trap…I didn’t even mind Teenage Drama Queen either, believe it or not. My kids loved it. But she has wasted her time in recent years being too busy doing drugs, or starving herself to death or wanting to be on the “scene” so desperately that she will party and get herself into trouble…anything for publicity’s sake instead of focusing on getting some good roles which showcase her acting and get the publicity for that. It’s sad. I hope that she can bounce back, because regardless of her problems she is also not stupid. She is very intelligent and well-spoken. She just needs to stop worrying about being in a relationship, worrying about what press she is getting and start instead focusing on turning out some work to be proud of.