This week, Star’s cover features a totally cracked-out, jacked looking Lindsay Lohan with the headline “Lindsay Hits Rock Bottom”. It’s kind of a “dur” cover for anyone following Lindsay’s shenanigans over the past few months (or years, whatever). The girl has been all kinds of rough for a long time, but her three-week Paris trip has been an epic fail. Everything from the universal disgust to Lindsay’s cracked-out “creative consultant” Ungaro line, to her cracked-out ingenious jewelry heist, to her cracked-out out tweets to Sam Ronson, it’s been a total disaster.
Now Star is giving us a “behind the scenes” look at Lindsay’s self-destruction. The cover includes these sub-headlines: She passes out in Paris!; Deadly diet of vodka, cocaine, and piles of prescription pills; Friends: ‘You’re going to die!’. That pretty much sums up the cover story excerpt that Star put up – although they do quote an “insider” as saying “She an obituary waiting to happen.”
How bad can it get? Lindsay Lohan’s trip to Paris was a low point even for her!
The once-promising actress collapsed during a week-long party, as her vodka, cocaine and prescription pills habits caught up with her. Now as Star reports in its Oct. 26 issue — on newsstands now — her few remaining friends fear it is too late to saver her.
“She’s a wreck, a mess, a disaster,” one tells Star. “She an obituary waiting to happen.”
Despite three trips to rehab and two DUI arrests, all before her 23rd birthday, Linds cannot stop herself from drowning her sorrows. Even the night before her big runway debut with her Emanuel Ungaro clothing line she was up till dawn partying. And once the scathing reviews were in for her line, things got worse. “She was crushed,” says one insider who saw her at a bash thrown by photographer Mario Testino.
“Her eyes were red and puffy, and at one point she started shouting and tearing up.” Soon after, Lindsay collapsed on a couch and passed out. “Her friends had to get her out of there before things got any worse.”
Lindsay’s career is in shambles and her tumultuous relationship with girlfriend DJ Samantha Ronson finally seems to be over for good. Lindsay even went on a bizarre Twitter tirade against Sam and her family on Oct. 13, claiming that Sam won’t speak to her “because her family will cut her off if she contacts me. They control the one I love and I’m incapable of making any sort of difference.”
One of Lindsay’s friends adds, “She’s definitely hit rock bottom. The next level is six feet under.”
[From Star]
You know what? For the first time ever, I totally co-sign everything about a Star cover story. They got something right – Lindsay is a crackhead mess, and she’s killing herself. What nags at me, however, is the questions I have about whether I should feel any sympathy for Lindsay. My general take is “Hell no.” First of all, I don’t think Lindsay has hit her own rock bottom yet. She’s still barely functioning, and there are enough sycophants and enablers around her who have convinced her that she’s fully functioning. My greatest fear is that Lindsay’s rock bottom will be some major, violent, life-threatening crime.
Anyhoodle, guess whose still trying to get press from Lindsay’s sad state? Of course, it’s Michael Lohan. After telling the world that Lindsay is a prescription pill addict (as opposed to crack, coke or meth, I suppose) and that he was going to do some kind of half-assed intervention, Michael has now gone to Radar to tell all about Lindsay’s drug dealer. Michael says: “This guy follows Lindsay all over the place. All over…Lindsay pays for him to go everywhere. He has no job. No job. He does nothing. All he does is supply everyone in LA.” Okay… so what are you going to do about it? Oh right, you’re going to just go to Radar and talk about it. By the way, if Lindsay’s a prescription pill addict, wouldn’t that make her “dealer” a doctor? Or is that naïve of me?
Thanks to CoverAwards for the Star cover.
Those lips are deadly, that’s for sure!
That `then´ picture is unbelievable. I had to zoom in to see that it is really her.
This is going to crash bigtime, but indeed no sympathy or whatever. She is no Britney.
I remember Lindsay when she starred in ‘Freaky Friday’. She looked completely different then. I’m not quite sure what the hell happened to her. Her lips are absolutely gross. Hasn’t anybody told her that?
Nobody forced her to start drinking and taking drugs. Well, maybe her mother had a little to do with it. Didn’t I read somewhere that her mother used to drive her to the bars? It’s her own fault her career is over.
If it’s true that Samantha’s family is trying to keep them apart, I’m totally for it. To me, it seems that Lindsay can only bring Samantha down with her. Everytime they were together, from what I read, they were always fighting. Definitely not a healthy relationship.
You know, I do feel sorry for Lindsay. While I in no way think she’s a nice person, with her family and the fame she never really had a chance at a good life, or becoming a decent person.
Drug dealers sell EVERYTHING today. If there is money to be had in it they are selling it.
I know tabloids stories are generally made up or at least exaggerated but the photos tell us all…so sad, I also agree she hasn’t hit rock bottom yet…
I just hope somebody helps her…her parents are a disgrace, even tho she is an adult, I’m sure her ma was doing the drugs with her when she was barely a teen & I agree she never stood a chance
For gods sake absent famewhoring parents of Lindasy, take a look at your daughter and if you love her even a small amount help her!
They really should be charged with neglect (as I have said b4) re Ali and her ‘home-schooling’ which equates to hanging around your drunk, drug addled, eating disorder, self-harming elder sister in order to become famous just like her! They are one of the most disgusting excuse for parents.
So sad
No wonder she doesn’t have any true friends. They’re all sick of narcissistic, attention-seeking drama.
she needs a britney style family intervention….i don’t think her cracked out dad is fit to manage her life though anymore than her mom…poor lindsay she’s harmless to everyone but herself.
Kaiser – You’re not naive, but I am an addict (I haven’t used for almost 2 years, but you’re always an addict) and depending on what you want, sometimes it’s easier to get prescription pills off the street. I was able to get one from my doctor, but the others I got for MUCH more money on the street.
The average painkiller abuser who uses for over a year will work their way up to using roughly 80 mgs of oxycontin or percocet a day. Where I live, that stuff costs A DOLLAR A MG. off the street. That’s 80 dollars a day my friends. Not to mention how expensive coke is….and if I had unlimited money I would have easily been doing more than an 80 (that’s the largest dose oxycontin comes in, hence why it’s such a common number) a day….so you wonder why Lindsay has no money.
Just trying to be informative, hope that didn’t sound “high and mighty” or like I was giving her advice. Just letting those who have kept their life on track get some idea of how insane that world is.
yawn I haven’t liked her since she took over some guy’s car, took them for a ride and telling them she could do whatever she wants because she’s a “star” and legally got away with it.
How many times has she gotten away with car crashes, coke in her possession, stealing from others and now stores?
She deserves everything she’s getting. She’s had one second chance after another. Her family is messed up but there have been so many huge hollywood stars (Meryl Streep…)giving her advice. If she had half a brain she would have listened to someone who was willing to be her mentor.
This is quite wicked of me but I’m kind of glad her lifestyle is showing on her face. (all that matters in hollywood) Because of all her bad decisions so far, she doesn’t seem to have had serious repercussions.
I wonder how her mom & dad will respond to this headline!
“This guy follows Lindsay all over the place. All over…Lindsay pays for him to go everywhere. He has no job. No job. He does nothing.’
Uhm..Wouldn’t that pretty much describe her parasitic parents?
Honestly, along with everyone else i am sooo sick of this girl! what a waste. She had everything going for her and she screwed it up. I guarantee one of the responses out of Dina’s mouth thats been coming out of her mouth for the last 4 years is “shes only 23 yrs old. acting like any other normal 23 yr old” seriously?
jeeeeezus keeee-rissst already with this family! what in the bloody hell is WRONG with her parents? remember the mother saying a while back that lindsay and her ilk were the next donald trumps or something – moguls/businesswomen???? there is not even a word to describe the level of dysfunction/idiocy.
but lindsay is a grown damn woman now and has basically the WHOLE WORLD (other than the idiots in her apparently very small circle) telling her she’s on a crash course – she needs to wise up already and get the hell out of hollywood asap. between the lohans and the gosselins, i really can’t. makes most of jerry springer’s guests look like paragons of class and family values.
unless something drastic happens, like both of parents getting hit by a bus and a drill sergeant taking her in, i dont see anything but a tragic result for this chick. and her sister may not be far behind! job well done, michael and dina!
She is a sick girl. Don’t kick the wounded. Pray for her.
said it before, I’ll say it again.
DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR HER.
she has had opportunities that most people could only dream about, and trashed them.
she’s been to rehab 3 times, so she knows about addictions and ways to control them, but chooses not to.
she blatantly flouts the law due to her sense of entitlement. the car chase, the thefts, etc.
People outside of her family have tried to help her (Tina Fey, Meryl Streep) and she ignores their advice.
I repeat, DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR HER. she really doesn’t deserve anyone’s sympathy.
to mollination…your post absolutely did NOT come off as high and mighty. just informative. I had NO idea that prescriptions meds were so expensive on the street.
You sure don’t need a doctor for pills, Kaiser. Especially if you are wanting to take pills that no ethical doctor would prescribe to you, because you don’t actually need them.
I couldn’t help but laugh at her dad’s description… that guy has a job; it’s being Lindsay’s dealer. It probably pays really well, too. I especially like how Michael Lohan is acting as if he has NO understanding of that. Because, you know, he was NEVER a coke head himself, right?
Harsh. Really, really harsh headline.
No one deserves this.
I’m pretty sure Lindsy has “hit rock bottom” like 5 times now…
My ex is an addict. It destroyed our relationship. His choice is oxy and snorting heroin, and alcohol (hard liquor). I was very very naive when we first started dating. I’d never dated anyone with a problem like this before. I mean, yes my friends and I drank, but not to “fall asleep” as he would put it, etc. I didn’t see any of the warning signs till it was too late, and then he started to rip me apart emotionally, mentally – even got a bit physical and I stuck around because he always apologised and told me he would change. Blah, blah. It almost ruined me. I wanted to help him so badly it became a detriment to my wellbeing.
Drug addiction is sad and scary.
I want to feel for lindsay, because as an empath i can’t help it. It however, gets me in trouble, ie, my ex. It’s a hard line. They either want help or don’t. You can’t help them if they don’t want it – end of story. My ex didn’t want my help. He’s been trying to contact me (occasionally) recently. Finally got money he owed me! it took forever for him to finally admit to being an arse during our relationship. He says he’s clean (3 months?) but I had to meet him a week or so ago to get the money, and immediately i could tell he was “high”. Now, before I wouldn’t have been able to but now I can spot these things. It broke my heart again, because he’d been calling and telling me he was cleaning up his act etc. And, I wanted to believe him. I love him – i still do, but I know he and I cannot be together. But, when I saw him and his pupils were like pins! I was sooooo disappointed, like many times before. Because I had believed him when he told me he wasn’t drinking or taking pills. I felt bad when I saw him and wanted to ask him if he was on something but I didn’t want him to think I didn’t believe him when he said he was clean, but, how could I? My instincts were telling me he was using, but my heart wanted to believe him. I felt bad. I don’t know why he felt it necessary to lie to me and try and convince me he was getting clean or was no longer using drugs (he always claimed I made him feel like a failure – which hurt alot)…Sorry i’m rambling. It just breaks my heart when i see people like Lindsay. I wish I could help.
I’ll always have a soft spot for the crazies in co-dependent relationships (re:Amy Winehouse), because I’ve been crazy and codependent a time or two, myself.
But Lilo. . .
I can’t muster much sympathy for someone who acts so entitled – someone who craves the spotlight at whatever cost. Beneath the depression, beneath the addiction, there is a self-important individual who will stop at nothing to satiate her ego.
And that’s really what I feel it is. Her ego. Her need to be recognized and recorded in the annals of Hollywood lore. The girl always wanted to be famous, but she has limited talent and absolutely no work ethic. (And how could she with her parents?)
. . .
So why be famous when you can be infamous?
Why get by on your own merit when you can leech off of the memory of the talented and tragic of Hollywood Legend?
The hours are better, and the drugs are more prevalent. You can be just as self-involved as you want without castmates or superiors bitching.
And as long as you’re breathing there’ll be another candid moment captured on film – more money to get loaded and more exposure to the masses. Whispers of personal tragedies and vulnerabilities feed into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you die tomorrow, it’ll be a beautiful, tragic death immortalized by the media as a cautionary tale.
If you fake sobriety for a few months and land a job (any job), you’re the comeback kid. And America loves a good comeback story – more than they love discernible talent. (Sorry Brit-brit.)
So again – why be famous when it’s easier to be infamous?
I guess Michael and Dina taught her it’s better to be infamous than nobody at all.
Tragic.
Mollination: Congrats to you for your 2 yr sobriety!
Also: seriously, I forgot what LL looked like before all this….hardly recognizable from the before photo. I’m 34 and I look younger than her!! She looks very bad…and I can’t feel sorry for her when she’s had so much help in the past. She had people who really cared about her and gave her many second chances but she’s burned all those bridges and some.
We always hear about Lindsay,Dina,Micheal and Ali Lohan, but what about the sons? Doesn’t Lindsay have a older brother? Has he written off the family? and who is taking care of the youngest son and is he being “home schooled” as well? I hope he does not end up like his sisters
Yay Mollination! Keep up the great work, and your post was very good!
I don’t feel sorry for Lindsay because she’s fucking stupid.
It’s one thing to self-destruct, and even to enjoy self-destructing– but to jump the gun and do it before you’ve contributed anything substantial to the world is just plain dumb.
I don’t feel sorry for her at all. She had three different chances in rehab. Yeah, her family and “friends” don’t seem to support or love her, but y’know what? At some point, you have to find the will to live yourself. YOU have to want to get healthy. Saying “she doesn’t have the support of her family” is an excuse. There are people who have clawed themselves out of the pit of drug addiction all by themselves because they wanted to be clean so badly. Obviously Linday doesn’t want sobriety or else she would have already put in the effort at those THREE different rehab stays. Seriously, this is ridiculous. I think she’s hoping that someone else will come to her rescue, but the problem with that is that she’s turned into someone nobody wants to help. And that’s her fault.
mollination …thanks for sharring 🙂 God bless you and stay drug free. I hope L gets her act together.
I feel sorry for her…dunno what she wants ….
I am sorry for this situation but the best thing Samantha can do is get far enough away so that the shrapnel from Lindsay’s exploding life does not hit her. I too had an addicted partner who had underlying psychological problems and an alcohol and drug monkey on her back the size of King Kong. I had to let go. They found her dead in her apartment about 2 years after we broke up. It broke my heart but she chose. Samantha needs to stand her ground she cannot do any good for Lindsay and can only bring great harm to herself.
JaundiceMachine, THANK YOU, you described my feelings towards Lindsay Lohan better than I ever could.
Bottom line: no more sympathy for the entitled, selfish c*nt, addiction or no addiction.
Interesting to read everyones take on the situation.
My theory is that Lindsy’s all around self destructive behavior is a rebellion against her stage mother that ended up spiraling out of control due to her drug use.
All these years Lindsy has NEVER said anything negative about Dina. infact, she insists her mother is a wonderful, loving parent. and yet for years she has systematically sabotaged every professional opportunity as well as her reputation, destroying the career her mother created for her and managed for her. she destroyed the most important thing in Dina’s life by just failing time after time. I think that was Lindsy’s way to express her rage against her mother, and also to free herself from her mothers manipulation and control. unfortunately that coping mechanism didn’t serve her well… she ended up a drug addict.
And I think Dina’s complacence towards her daughters downhill spiral speaks volumes as well. she must feel betrayed and angry that Lindsy ruined “her” chance @ stardom and fulfillment but is in denial about it, same as Lindsy. so she’s expressing her rage by ignoring Lindsy’s cries for help.
This family is all sorts of fucked up. the most important thing right now is getting Lindsy into rehab. before it’s too late.
Right on Mollination! Good on ya! And thanks so much for sharing your story; I know it can be difficult to share such personal stories. My husband has been sober for almost 3 years now (he quit drinking before we met but I’m no less proud of him)
And DITTO JMac!! Couldn’t have said it better myself!
JaundiceMachine: self-fulfiling prophecy indeed. Maybe that explains her obsession with Marilyn Monroe?
Exactly! Its as if she loves the Marilyn myth so much that she is hellbent on recreating it! Albeit in a much more public, obvious & effed-up way…
I don’t like her but I do pity her. I felt sorry for Britney because of her clear mental illness, but at least she has a semi-functional family to bolster her. Lilo is a man-made disaster, made by her horrid family that failed to protect her, exploited her, and are so self-involved they clearly don’t see what is going on. And Jon Gosselin’s getting parenting advice from this train-wreck’s father????
Britney’s problems were like Hurricane Katrina, a scary natural force. Lilo is like the levees breaking in New Orleans and fleeing survivors being away at gunpoint on the few bridges leading to higher ground. Horrifying, sordid, and the result of YEARS of people in positions of responsibility not taking care of essential care.
I feel sorry for her and shame on those who don’t because she had more chances than you. Lots of folks have had more chances than you. The world is not about equating things with those who took a bigger slice of the pie in life. Seems women operate on this level and there’s the reason why they don’t run things and men do. Just put out a prayer for someone suffering like this. I bet a lot of you found it in your heart to forgive Robert Downey Jr.
Is it just me, or does that picture look more like a Madame Tussaud Lindsey, as opposed to an actual human?
She’s someone’s child that wasn’t protected. I can’t Not care about how close she is to total self destruction. That being said, Samantha did the right thing in finally distancing herself. Stay away Sam, for your own sanity and dignity.
Wrong Molination,
You’re not always an addict. There are other methods to treating and curing addiction besides AA. There are different approaches besides declaring yourself “powerless.” Kudos to you on you’re 2 years sobriety though. That’s something to be very proud of.
Java, wrongo. You can’t change a pickle back to a cucumber. Once you change the pathways in the brain (the firing, synapse) it stays forever. That is why alchies can’t have cough medicine, mouthwash with alcohol, it tingles those grooves that are set in the brain even if you have deadened them for decades with sobriety. She knows what she is talking about.
Oh, BTW, I’m able to have compassion for Linds because I don’t feel like I was ripped off in this world, lookswise and family finances. Yes, I have empathy for others. Only sociopaths don’t have empathy.
“I bet a lot of you found it in your heart to forgive Robert Downey Jr.”
Yup, I did…AFTER he admitted he was an addict at rock bottom, got himself clean, and worked his way back up to being in starring roles.
IF LL is able to pull herself out of her hole, get clean, STAY clean, and show some remorse, humility and (most importantly) TALENT, I’d consider lightening up on her.
but right now it’s all about her and her addictions. (and car chases, and thefts, and cracked-out tweets to someone who’s “just not that into her”) In her mind, it’s everyone else who has the problem, not her, and they should just leave her alone and let her do what she wants.
and we’ve all seen how her parents having that philosophy has affected LL’s life.
there comes a time when you have to call an addict an addict, and write them off until they want to get themselves healthy again…and when they DO, and ask for help, that’s where the forgiveness and assistance comes in. otherwise, all you’re doing is enabling them to continue on their drug-addled path.
god this girl is such a mess! i saw part of “georgia rule” last night on tv and i need to ask where is this talent i keep hearing so much about? lindsay looked hideous (orange and exhausted) and her voice was like a 60 year old chain smoker from new jersey. even my boyfriend (who is clueless as to celebs and such) came in and said “why is that girl orange?” besides looking & sounding like crap, her “acting” was very stiff and wooden. no wonder nobody wants to hire her. she should just focus on getting sober and leave hollywood.
Kathie: exactly right.
i think Samantha started carrying a torch for lindsay way back in 2004, they’ve iknown each other that long, and sam seemed so happy to finally have caught lindsay’s eye.
but if sam doesn’t stay away, she’ll just get pulled down too.
has anyone else noticed that sam’s family is really pulling together and that sam is rarely alone nowadays? chris jones, another brother of hers, is coming to LA i hear.
i’m glad she has that family. I’m sorry she’s hurting. Family is the difference between sam and lindsay. Samantha’s family has her back, and they keep things private. lindsay’s family.. well.. we all know that one.
Why should I feel sorry for someone who isn’t sorry for herself? She thinks she’s totally ossum. When she actually looks around and recognizes the wreck she’s become…I will probably weep for her because I will feel so bad for the fear and shame she will likely be suffering. Until then…she’s a little snit and I feel nothing whatever for her outside of disdain.
She has no rock bottom. While her money lasts and people around her keep enabling her I see no change anytime soon.
honestly the best thing that can happen for her is for her to spend whatever is left on whatever she wants so she cant afford anything else and declare bankruptcy. maybe then shell be clean by force. I don’t wish anything bad on her. Her parents need to get out of her life and stop mooching off of her because they have ruined her chances at normalcy. Its really too bad that this happened to her and she wont allow anyone to help her.
btw. congratulations to everyone who has overcome their addictions! great accomplishment to be proud of. stick with it
Daing I wanna party with lindsay
Its interesting how her so called friend would just tell all wtf.but apparently their taking care of her I mean she passesd out and they got her all this pill shit I thnik she’s doing bars n u don’t need a doctor. I wish lindsay the best try to consume ur deadly addictions just don’t die lindsay we all love u.