I agree. For much of her life, she was TAUGHT that the rules that didn’t apply to her. Why is everybody so outraged and shocked when it takes her a long time to learn that they do? She’s just behaving as she was taught she could behave. While my heart doesn’t exactly bleed for her … others have handled fame and adulation at a young age a lot better, though many have done no better than her … I’m not pissed off at her. She is what she is … what she was TAUGHT to be.
A few years ago this might have been a tragedy. Now we have Emma Stoneas a hot young redhead to replace her.
Lindsay needs serious, inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation and psychological counseling. She also needs people around her who care about her and not just the money they can make off of her talents (and she has them) and the fame that they can trade off of her name.
I feel badly for her because jail isn’t going to help her get clean and sober, nor is it going to give her a circle of legitimate support. Addiction is a disease, and punishing an addict for being irresponsible about managing their disease is completely backwards.
Yeah, but I was talking about how little of the sentence is actually served. 3 hours? 82 minutes? If that’s normal for non-famous first-timers, then you have a point. I honestly don’t know if it is or not.
Your noble Enlightenment has me in awe…
Back when Paris Hilton was ping-ponging between jail and home, someone did a study and that amount of time served is pretty common for all first time traffic offenders.
I’ve told this story a few times, but I had the opportunity to fly with Ms. Lohan, her sister, and her mother on a flight from LA to somewhere or other (I think it was Seattle but can’t be sure) back in 2004. I was sitting with her little sister in first class - Lindsay and her mother were in the row in front of us. I helped them with their bags as we boarded, we said a few pleasantries and whatnot, I joked with her little sister to put her at ease (since she was like 11 and sitting with a strange man) and the flight passed uneventfully.
Lindsay Lohan was 18 then and I’ll tell you, the camera did her no justice. She looked beautiful on screen back then but in person… she was mesmerizingly beautiful. Absolutely knock-out gorgeous, easily one of the five most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life. It was impossible to look away. She was the kind of girl you couldn’t get out of your head for weeks afterwards.
That was six years ago and if I didn’t know it from the captions I would never think the woman in present-day photographs was the same person.
Now I just really feel sorry for her. She is so universally despised and unemployable. It has to be really hard for what seems like the whole world to hate you, and it’s all over tv and the internet. Then there are her parents- her dad said last night that he was going to call Lindsay from the bar to make her jealous. WTF? If I were her, after jail and rehab I’d just go start all over in anonymity somewhere remote, away from all the poisonous people in her life.
Actually, I understand* that the sign is by way of being a confessional self-label.
The fact that she didn’t write small enough to get the entire term “FUCK-UP” on the nail serves as a case in point (at the last minute she decided to leave out the hyphen, but it was too little-too-late).
*By which I mean, “I’m making this bit up as I go along.”
The “Fuck You” may be intended for the inevitable papparazzi, and not the justice system.
But I think the 90 day sentence was a surprise to her, and an indication that the judge was losing patience.
Addiction is a disease, one which I have. I’ve been clean and sober over 20 years now, and it was only by suffering the negative consequences which resulted from not responsibly managing my disease that I accepted the need to responsibly manage it.
Consequences happen. Learning from them or not is each individual’s choice.
What a difference a state makes. In Tennessee, a first time DUI gets a minimum 48 hours jail sentence, no exceptions. Since Lindsey has 2 DUIs, that would be a minimum of 45 days round these parts.
http://www.state.tn.us/safety/duioutline.htm#duifirst
You’re not kidding. She was gorgeous.
I hope this is a wake up call, but somehow I doubt it. It’s a shame–she was a genuinely talented kid and now it’s all gone to sh*t. She’s the poster child for growing up with toxic parents, but at some point she’s gotta take responsibility for her own actions.
At first I didn’t feel sorry for her. She was shown some leniency before, abused the privilege and demonstrated that leniency was wasted on her, and so now she has to learn about personal responsibility the hard way.
But then I watched the clip and saw her father saying that this showed how the system had failed. Not him, not LL… the system.
That’s when I actually felt sorry for her. Being born to a father that magnificently stupid and arrogant must be a very unfortunate situation.
I don’t know much about Lindasy Lohan and nothing about her family, but a poster above said her dad was planning on calling her from a bar (where I guess she is not allowed to enter while on probation?) and taunting her about her jail sentence and mocking the fact that she is legally prohibited from drinking…
The guy sounds like a piece of human excrement.
Looks like she gave herself the finger in this instance. Good for her. Maybe she can work a prison tattoo into her busy schedule.
You and I would find it hard. You and I would go start over somewhere remote. She is way too far gone to entertain that silly thought, as is Britney Spears. I really do believe she gets some kind of kick out of all the attention, even though it’s negative. Look at her, constantly in the news! She still lives high on the hog, mingles with the rich and famous, gets invited to Cannes. It’s a living! Occupation: “Professional Train Wreck”.
funny and a band name to boot.
No, she’s not. Her SCRAM bracelet has gone off repeatedly, she’s been stalking Sam Ronson, and she fell into a cactus a few weeks ago. That’s just the first incidents that come to mind. She might not have gotten worse, but she’s no better. No particular signs of stability.
I would respond but I’m too busy laughing at the mental image of Lindsay Lohan falling into a cactus.