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Guardian

Lindsay Lohan: the shocking truth is that she's a great actor

The star of Mean Girls and A Prairie Home Companion will bounce back from her alcohol problems if she concentrates on her acting

Ryan Gilbey guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 7 July 2010 20.00 BST
 
There is a horrible inevitability to the news that Lindsay Lohan is going to prison. Not that this will be the 24-year-old actor's first period of incarceration. In 2007, she was convicted of driving under the influence and cocaine use after a meeting between her Mercedes-Benz and a Beverly Hills tree. She spent 84 minutes behind bars, her one-day sentence having been reduced as a response to prison overcrowding. This time, she'll need to pack a toothbrush.

On Tuesday, Beverly Hills superior court judge Marsha Revel dished out a 90-day sentence to Lohan in response to the actor violating the terms of her probation by skipping alcohol education classes. With the extravagant steeliness beloved of judges who know that they are effectively writing the next day's headlines, Revel described Lohan as someone who "cheats and only thinks it's cheating if she gets caught", before telling her: "The court doesn't buy that this time."

Lohan will be unlikely to serve more than 22 days, with a further 90 days as an in-patient on a substance abuse programme. But even that reduced sentence will give her plenty of thinking time; one can only hope that her thoughts will turn to the potential still contained in her career.

Lohan's life has long been the subject of constant brouhaha – some of it whipped up through the cheery lack of discretion that other 24-year-olds can blithely choose to exercise, some engineered through attention-grabbing stunts such as her recent guns-and-gore photoshoot with photographer Tyler Shields. And she can be sure that, whatever the occasion, the paparazzi will be there to record her bleary grimaces and skimpy outfits.

But in between her falling out of nightclubs and tumbling into the arms of assorted "close friends" (mostly female, hence the ghastly tabloid prurience that surrounds her every smooch), there is one startling fact that Lohan has managed to keep relatively quiet: she's a rather delightful actor. In fact, it might be the most shocking thing about her. Substance addiction and wayward behaviour are not unheard of in someone with such a stormy family background. (Her relationship with her estranged father, who has reportedly expressed paternal affection through that time-honoured ritual of passing his daughter notes via her on-set stand-in, continues to be troubled.) No, the real surprise is that this accomplished performer, with a light comic touch, should flourish from such rocky terrain.

It is this sparkling talent, this feistiness in using creative expression to process or overcome emotional disadvantage, that is most frequently overlooked by soapbox character-assassins – such as Bette Midler, who lumped Lohan in with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as "wild and woolly sluts", and Camille Paglia ("these girls are lowering themselves to the level of backstreet floozies").

My advice to anyone tempted to write off Lohan is: look at the films. Dismiss, if you will, the jauntiness required to hold together energetic kids' farces such as The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday or Herbie Fully Loaded – that's your choice. But there's no arguing with the brains and fizz she brings to Mean Girls, Tina Fey's knowing comedy about the political espionage of high-school life. Or the self-aware humour that runs through her work in A Prairie Home Companion, Robert Altman's final film, set on-stage and backstage at Garrison Keillor's folksy radio show. Despite mingling with a formidable cast including Meryl Streep (who played her mother), Kevin Kline and Tommy Lee Jones, Lohan – then just 20 – exuded an easygoing grace as the pink-stetsonned teen poet who composes suicidal stanzas ("Hanging by extension cord, carbon monoxide . . .").

Her colleagues on that picture were quick to note the qualities that don't show up in the average gossip-column jibe or pap-snap. "She is a serious actress, she's been very well schooled," remarked Keillor. "I know nothing about what she does late at night. Not my business, nor am I that curious." Streep became a cheerleader for her on-screen daughter. "She is a terrific actress," she told W magazine. "It's something that you could see even when she was little-bitty. I'm aware of the tabloid stuff because my kids tell me – but I don't read it, and frankly, I couldn't care less. When they say 'Action', Lindsay is completely, visibly living in front of the camera, and that's all anybody really cares about. I think she could do anything she puts her mind to."

The question is whether Lohan realises this herself. "I want people to know me for the work that I'm doing," she once said, "not for this party girl image, which is just vile and disgusting and not fair, because I work so hard." If this holds true, then the best thing Lohan can do when she has her liberty back is to concentrate on the work. Already completed is Machete, a violent exploitation thriller produced by Quentin Tarantino, who is reported to have called her "one of the best actresses in Hollywood" and claimed: "I could cast her in anything." Next, she will be seen as the doomed Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace in the biopic Lovelace. What happens in her career beyond that will depend largely on whether insurers and film-makers are willing to take her on, and how she handles the hounding she will receive from the press.

That her troubles have been a source of salacious excitement to some reflects poorly on society – proof, as Kira Cochrane wrote in the New Statesman in 2006, that "we have objectified [her] to the extent that [she doesn't] really seem human to us any more." If we can mend our ways, the rest will be up to her.

Ryan Gilbey is the film critic at the New Statesman

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People

Lawyer: Lindsay Lohan Just Doesn't Get It
By Eunice Oh

Update Tuesday July 13, 2010 05:00 AM EDT
Originally posted Monday July 12, 2010 03:25 PM EDT
 
A 90-day jail sentence should be a wake-up call for Lindsay Lohan but she still isn't fully aware of her dire situation, according to a lawyer who sat down with the actress over the weekend.

"My impression of Lindsay is that she's a fragile lost child – a sleeping beauty with her head in the sand. I found her not fully forewarned of the consequence of her actions," Stuart V. Goldberg, who was contacted by Lohan after her attorney resigned, tells PEOPLE.

"I'm concerned that she's not disciplined or tethered enough to the reality of adult consequences," he says. "She doesn't seem to have the awareness of what's going to befall her."

Goldberg, a criminal defense attorney based in Chicago, says he met with Lohan, her mom Dina and younger sister Ali at the actress's West Hollywood apartment and outlined his requirements for representing her – "100 percent loyalty and zero tolerance for dishonesty"– but "they didn't seem to understand the urgency and gravity of the situation."

He ultimately declined to take on the case.

During their six-hour long "heart to heart conversation," Lohan, 24, took notes like she did in court, writing in the triangular corner of a piece of paper, while Ali asked him "astute" questions.

At one point in their meeting, Goldberg, worried that Lohan "was in a dangerous state," asked if she might hurt herself.

"She started sobbing quietly. She was genuinely in pain," says Goldberg.

And though he advised Lohan to move out of Los Angeles, which he described as a "toxic environment for her," the actress didn't seem open to the idea.

"She was like Teflon to that comment," he says. "It just slid right off her. She seemed to have some inner deep sadness that that was her fate."

"My real worry for her is not just the jail time," adds Goldberg, "but my fear is that she's overly susceptible to a probation system that's set up for her to fail."

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IMDb

Lohan Checks Into Rehab
 
Lindsay Lohan has entered rehab a week before she's due to start a 90-day jail sentence for violating her parole on a 2007 DUI arrest.

The actress arrived at her new attorney Robert Shapiro's Los Angeles rehab centre, Pickford Lofts, on Wednesday night, according to X17Online.com.

Shapiro, who plans to appeal his client's jail time, created the sober-living facility in the memory of his son Brent, who lost his battle with sobriety and died of a drug overdose in 2005.

According to reports, Lohan's mother Dina, sister Ali, her ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson and her assistant Eleanor helped the Mean Girls star settle in to her temporary home.

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E! Online

UpdateO.J.-Approved Lawyer Squeezes Lindsay Lohan Into Sober Living
Today 10:41 AM PDT by Natalie Finn, Ken Baker and Gina Serpe

Lindsay Lohan is hoping that a little drying out will keep her from getting locked up.

The embattled actress has, according to her father, entered Pickford Lofts, a sober-living facility opened by famed O.J. Simpson attorney (and potential new LiLo counsel) Robert Shapiro in advance of her surrender to jail next Tuesday.

Genius legal plan or too little, too late? Michael Lohan seems to have an opinion...

And that opinion is that people should have just listened to him in the first place.

"Why is it that I had to cry from the mountain for Lindsay to listen to me and now finally she is doing what I said?" he told E! News. "None of this would have happened if Lindsay and Dina had [listened to me]. I was telling Dina and Lindsay this privately for years now.

"I just pray that they implement everything else I said, like getting clean off all meds, asking the court to go to rehab first and then reevaluate Lindsay's incarceration, cleaning house and picking all new friends and management and finally that Dina put her motives aside and she go to counseling with Lindsay and me."

Papa Lohan thinks that Shapiro, who despite appearances will not officially become LiLo's attorney until he and her ex-lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley go before the court and Judge Marsha Revel signs off on the switcheroo, who also famously struggled with his own child's addictions, is a good choice for his daughter.

"I think Mr. Shapiro will agree with my suggestions, since, unfortunately, he has been down this road as well."

As for Lindsay's foray into sober living, Michael says it must be all or nothing.

"As long as they detox her off everything...then that's a good start and it says that they know what they are doing. If they don't detox her off all the meds, it is as bad as the rest. If she has to turn herself in on the 20th, I hope they do it fast, because it takes a while to detox. I don't get their plan or strategy."

Greater minds presumably do. Like Shapiro.

Though he's not technically her lawyer, a source close to Lindsay described his relationship to the actress' camp like so:

"Robert is helping Lindsay. He's consulting with her and her people. When and if he files legal papers on her behalf, you can say he is representing her. That hasn't happened yet."

But it's likely only a matter of time.

Lindsay and mom Dina were spotted at Shapiro's Beverly Hills home on Saturday. That was just days after Kim Kardashian paid visit a visit to Lohan at her West Hollywood condo.

And just today the spokeswoman for the D.A. told E! News that they have been contacted by Shapiro and that he informed them they did not intend on appealing Judge Revel's sentence.

"My understanding is they weren't going to appeal," spokeswoman Jane Robison said.

Shapiro hasn't been the only legal eagle the Lohans were considering for a test flight.

A source told E! News that Mark Geragos, whose clients have included Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Winona Ryder, respectfully declined to represent Lindsay. The other side of the coin, however, is that Geragos couldn't promise Lindsay that she'd serve zero jail time if he took her case, so they passed.

The source explained that Lohan isn't looking to get off scot-free, but rather wants to spend those 90 days in a locked-down rehab facility, not plain old jail.

Chicago-based criminal attorney Scott V. Goldberg, a narcotics and addition specialist, was all for taking up Lindsay's defense, calling her an "exquisite, flawed, fragile beauty" whom he wanted to save.

"I want to change the perception of the way Lohan is being seen and treated," Goldberg told E! News Saturday, a day after meeting with the actress at her condo. "This entire court process has been set up to make her fail. There has been a minefield of clues in this case that should not have been addressed and I want to correct that."

"What she needs is a criminal lawyer," he added. "She has been made to be a victim, and this whole system has been set up for people to make money on t-shirts and press...She is an exquisite, talented, vibrant person who is the result of a thousand razor blade slashes and has become worn down. And I'm not going to let it happen anymore."

Yet he ultimately passed, as well.

As for Lohan's new environs, the Pickford Lofts has a solid reputation. Which is good news for Lindsay considering her previous program of choice, Right On, is currently under the microscope of the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.

"It's part of our routine auditing," spokeswoman Sarah Kissell assured E! News. "We go through their paperwork and make sure it matches. It's basically just to ensure that there is accurate paperwork for the clients and that the clients have fulfilled the state requirements. [Right On] was due for their semiannual audit."

Funny about the timing, right?

"The timing just sort of worked out where they were due for an audit anyway," Kissell said. "The routine audits are not prompted by any specific incidence. This case was not prompted by any complaint or suspicion."

She said she didn't know when the audit results would be available, so there's no way of knowing yet whether there were any inaccuracies in the reporting when it came to Lohan's program.

We're trusting that Shapiro's going spell it all out for us in the near future.

—Reporting by Whitney English, Marcus Mulick and Claudia Rosenbaum
(Originally published July 15, 2010, at 9:11 a.m. PT)

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The drama continues.

E! Online

Lindsay Lohan Ditches Sober House, Loses Lawyer on Eve of Jail
Today 6:22 AM PDT by Natalie Finn

So much for Lindsay Lohan's legal Dream Team.

On the eve of her surrender, the jail-bound starlet's incoming attorney, former O.J. Simpson defender Robert Shapiro, stepped down following a private meeting with the judge who's been presiding over Lohan's case, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Shapiro publicly acknowledged just days ago that he was representing the troubled actress on the condition that she comply "with all of the terms of her probation, including a requirement of jail time."

His exit comes amid news Lohan herself ditched a Shapiro-run sober-living facility following a brief stay.

She's due to turn herself in this morning, so what went wrong?!

Last week, she checked into Pickford Lofts, which was started by Shapiro after he lost his son, Brent, to a drug overdose in 2005. Shapiro was spotted heading into the building Thursday, as was Lohan's assistant.

Though ostensibly a positive step, it may have been Lohan's brief stay at the Los Angeles residence that made things worse. A source tells E! News that Shapiro was not happy with her behavior there.

"She was unruly," the source says. "She was having people over at all hours of the night. She acted like she ran the place."

The actress was apparently out of the facility Monday. Her assistant was spotted there late in the evening, removing some of the star's personal belongings, but there was no sign of Lohan aside from a smart-alecky Twitter posting.

"The only 'bookings' that i'm familiar with are Disney Films, never thought that i'd be "booking" into Jail... eeeks," the onetime Parent Trap star tweeted Monday.

According to various reports, Lohan had a tough weekend, nibbling on her nails and chain-smoking as she dreaded being locked up Tuesday—even though she'll probably only spend about three weeks in jail rather than three months.

As of Monday, the L.A. District Attorney's Office had no advance knowledge of an attempt on Lohan's part to appeal her sentence, though a source close to her had told E! News that Lindsay wanted to spend her 90 days in a locked-down rehab facility, rather than jail (after which, she'll have to go to court-ordered rehab anyway).

Lohan's expected at the Beverly Hills Courthouse at 8:30 a.m., after which she's due to be transported to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood.

It's unclear now who will be representing Lohan in court. Calls to Shapiro and the attorney he was supposed to be replacing, Shawn Chapman Holley, have not yet been returned. Holley never signed the paperwork that would have officially removed herself as Lohan's counsel.

—Additional reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum

(Originally published July 19, 2010, at 8:46 p.m. PT)

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People

Lindsay Lohan Handcuffed and Headed for Jail
By Eunice Oh

Tuesday July 20, 2010 11:35 AM EDT

Lindsay Lohan surrendered to the court Tuesday to begin her 90-day jail sentence for violating probation in a DUI case.

The actress, 24, arrived at the Beverly Hills courthouse in a motorcade to a crush of photographers and reporters. Somebody threw confetti toward her as she walked up the steps. One fan held a sign reading, "Free Lindsay."

During a brief hearing, Judge Marsha Revel said, "At this time, she will be remanded to serve her sentence." Lohan stood, looking stern, and was cuffed behind her back. She was escorted quietly out a side door by four sheriff's deputies.

As she left the courtroom, her father Michael Lohan said, "We love you, Lindsay." Her mother Dina also was in court.

Lohan is expected to be booked into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where she previously served 84 minutes in 2007.

Despite the three-month sentence, legal experts say Lohan will probably serve between two weeks to a month due to the Sheriff's Department's long-standing policy of releasing nonviolent offenders early due to overcrowding.

L.A. Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore has said Lohan would likely be segregated from the general population "for her protection as well as the jail staff." Most inmates' daily routine at the jail includes a 5 a.m. wake-up call and being kept in a 12-by-8 cell for 22 hours a day, except for one hour of recreation time and 20 minutes per meal.

Lohan was sentenced July 6 after a judge ruled she had violated probation in a DUI case by missing court-ordered weekly alcohol-education classes. She's spent the past few days in a sober-living house, but left with her mother and friend Samantha Ronson around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning.

In addition to the jail sentence and another three months in an inpatient rehab facility, Lohan will have to stay sober for the next year. Judge Revel's sentencing order specifies the actress will be randomly tested for drugs and alcohol until August 2011, when her probation term is over.

• Reporting by KEN LEE

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E! Online

Lindsay Lohan Surrenders, Begins 90-Day Jail Sentence
Today 9:07 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

In the end, it didn't matter which lawyer represented her in court, how many minutes late she was (seven), what was or wasn't painted on her fingernails, or how much she pouted in front of the judge.

Lindsay Lohan is going to jail.

Flanked by reluctantly reunited attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, mother Dina and, despite her deepest wishes, father Michael, Lindsay surrendered to the court this morning to begin serving a three-month sentence which, in reality, is expected to top out at something much nearer to three weeks.

You know what they say, 90 days is the new 84 minutes.

As previously announced, Judge Marsha Revel did not allow the media scrum in the courtroom to capture the exact moment of LiLo's surrender on camera (the girl deserves to maintain a little dignity, after all), ordering recordings to cease before having the 24-year-old actress handcuffed and taken into custody of the L.A. Sheriff's Department.

"At this time, she will be remanded to serve her sentence," the judge said. "At this point, all cameras are ordered to be shut off, both still and video."

Revel said that Lohan would not be eligible for house arrest or work release, that she would be required to report to probation within 24 hours of her release and that a status hearing would be set within a week of leaving jail.

Lohan, who wore a grey T-shirt and black blazer for the hearing, did not speak.

Immediately after the cameras were shut off, the five deputies on hand stepped up to take her into custody and remove her belongings.

Before she was taken away, her dad told her, "I love you, Lindsay."

Outside the courthouse, Michael did not speak, but his attorney Lisa Bloom told press that he spent the morning praying for his daughter, that he did not believe she should be incarcerated and that he will, as always, support her.

From here, as expected, Lindsay will begin processing at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, Calif., where she will spend her sentence. First is the processing phase of her stay—fingerprinting, photographing, cell assignment, SCRAM bracelet removal and kicky orange jumpsuit wardrobe change. Back in 2007, Lohan barely got through that part, spending just 84 minutes in the facility's hallowed terrifying halls.

This time around, Lindsay will prove particularly unfortunate if she ends up serving much longer than three weeks. So overcrowded are the Los Angeles County jails that nonviolent offenders rarely serve more than 25 percent of their original sentence, which in Lindsay's case would be just 22 1/2 days.

Taking into account this morning's events, that means she may already be down to 22. See how time flies? She'll be back booking Disney movies in no time.

Well, she'll be back, anyway.

—Additional reporting by Claudia Rosenbaum

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Pop Entertainment Daily

Can Lindsay Lohan stage a Hollywood comeback?
Thursday, July 22, 2010

Lindsay faces the biggest crisis of her troubled career. She will spend the next two weeks in an L.A. jail and then 90 more days in rehab. This means she won't be available to promote her next film, the Robert Rodriguez action flick "Machete," which opens Sept. 3.

And her summer in the slammer has delayed production on "Inferno," in which she is to play 1970s adult film star Linda Lovelace. That project holds promise and if done right could have Hollywood talking about Lohan's acting ability rather than her antics.

However, writer-director Matthew Wilder has just one credit to his name -- the 2008 dark comedy "Your Name Here" inspired by the life of sci-fi writer Phillip Dick. And a recent explanation of his vision for this new film remains murky. As Wilder explained to RadarOnline.com, "There will be full frontal nudity but it will not be cinematic nudity, it will be more violent nudity. For example, linked images of the Vietnam war, that kind of context." Just what that means remains to be seen.

Lohan's efforts to promote this picture at the Cannes filmfest in May went awry. Volcanic ash ground flights and she missed a court appearance tied to her 2007 arrest for cocaine use and reckless driving. Back then, Lohan served 84 minutes in jail and was put on probation for three years. That was extended by one year when she failed to complete an alcohol-education course.

2007 marked a low point in her film career as well. Lohan starred as a pair of separated-at-birth twins in the horrific "I Know Who Killed Me." The film won a record eight Razzie Awards, including three for Lohan, who tied with herself for worst actress and won worst screen couple.

Less than a decade earlier, Lindsay Lohan had won over audiences and critics playing another set of twins in the 1998 Disney remake of "The Parent Trap." Five years later she starred in another Disney do-over -- "Freaky Friday" -- and won the breakthrough award at the MTV movie kudos. In 2004, she headlined the critically acclaimed "Mean Girls" and won both MTV Movie and Teen Choice awards.

Two years later, Lohan earned good reviews as part of the ensemble casts of a pair of prestigious projects. "A Prairie Home Companion" was the last film from auteur Robert Altman while "Bobby" marked the first feature helmed in a decade by actor Emilio Estevez. That film about events surrounding the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy was a contender at both the Golden Globes and Screen Actor Guild.

If Lohan is looking for inspiration in these dark days, one shining example is Robert Downey Jr., who also came to fame at a young age. He landed an Oscar nomination for "Chaplin" in 1992 but slid off the rails soon after and was arrested numerous times in the late 1990s before serving a year in jail. After his release, he turned to the small screen, winning a Golden Globe for a role on "Ally McBeal." While he lost that job after more trouble with the law, Downey eventually turned himself around and is now at the top of the A-list.

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Realbollywood.com

‘Wailing’ Lindsay moved to solitary confinement

July 26th, 2010

Los Angeles, July 26 – Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement in jail because her fellow inmates are sick of her wailing, reveals a newly-released convict Cheryl Presser.

Presser said that Lohan is struggling with life behind bars and can’t stand the taunts from inmates who share the same area of Lynwood Correctional Facility in California, reports imdb.com.

She claims that inmates who live in the cells closest to her can hear her sobbing.

‘Lindsay would lie there shivering all night, crying and covering her face with her hands. Her wailing was keeping everyone awake… She had a hysterical fit, crying and yelling, so she got put in isolation,’ Presser said.

However, Lohan’s lawyer Shawn Chapman Holley insists, ‘She has made friends and the deputies have treated her respectfully (and she them).’

Lohan surrendered to authorities and began her 90-day jail stint last week. Her time has already been cut short and she is expected to be released Aug 2.

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[Edward]

This interview with Lindsay was filmed prior to her court hearing.

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IMDb

Lohan In Rehab After Jail Release
 
Lindsay Lohan has been released from jail and sent straight to rehab after serving just 13 days of her three-month sentence.

The Mean Girls star, who was originally ordered to serve 90 days behind bars for violating her probation relating to a 2007 DUI arrest, was freed from the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California in the early hours of Monday morning.

Lohan was released at approximately 1.30am local time (Pst), according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

The actress was transported straight to a rehab clinic, where she will begin a court-ordered 90-day treatment program.

Los Angeles Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says in a statement, "She was released at 1.35am. She has been sent directly to her next destination, which is a treatment centre. And she will now be under the supervision of the L.A. County probation department. This concludes her custody."

The actress was due to be admitted to the Morningside Recovery clinic in Orange County, California but Judge Marsha Revel, who has been overseeing Lohan's case, changed her mind and ordered the actress to attend an unnamed facility in the Los Angeles area.

District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison tells People.com, "There was concern that (Morningside Recovery) was not a secure enough facility."

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People

Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail
By Ken Lee

Monday August 02, 2010 05:20 AM EDT

After serving 13 full days in a solitary cell, Lindsay Lohan was freed from a Lynwood, Calif., jail in the wee hours of Monday morning.

"She was released at 1:35 a.m.," Los Angeles Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said outside the jail. "She has been sent directly to her next destination, which is a treatment center. And she will now be under the supervision of the L.A. County probation department. This concludes her custody."

The actress had been serving a 90-day sentence for violating probation in a DUI case, but served a reduced sentence for good behavior and due to the sheriff's long-standing policy of releasing nonviolent offenders early because of severe overcrowding.

Lohan was expecting to serve her court-ordered three months in rehab at an Orange County, Calif., facility, but the judge in her case changed her mind last minute over the weekend.

"There was concern that [Morningside Recovery] was not a secure enough facility," District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison told PEOPLE. Robison added that Judge Marsha Revel was concerned that drugs could be easily passed onto the actress, and therefore approved of an undisclosed L.A.-area rehab center. The facility reportedly is at UCLA Medical Center.

If Lohan violates any rules during her treatment, the court could be notified and the judge could potentially throw her back in jail for violating probation, legal experts say.

She also faces a year of random drug testing. The actress must stay clean and sober until August 2011, when her probation term is over. She is, however, allowed to take a number of prescription medications.

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I wish her luck, but I don't think she's got it yet. You have to want to be sober.

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IMDb

Baldwin: 'Lohan Has A Disease'

Daniel Baldwin is urging the public not to judge Lindsay Lohan too harshly - insisting the troubled star's problems are not her fault because addiction is "a disease".

Lohan was released from a California jail on Monday after serving less than two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation relating to a 2007 DUI arrest.

She has now checked into rehab to spend 90 days receiving treatment for her addictions as part of her sentence.

Baldwin, who spent years battling a raging drug habit and endured nine stints in rehab, insists Lohan deserves sympathy because she "doesn't have a choice" when she turns to alcohol or illegal substances.

He tells U.S. TV show Larry King Live, "This woman has a disease. She doesn't have a choice in it. She has a disease. So it's not a fault thing. It's now a matter of whether or not she's going to go and get her (therapy) and decide that she's going to try to beat this disease, or she's going to succumb to it and end up killing someone in a car or die of an overdose...

"It's no different than any other disease. She suffers from an affliction that is treatable, and she can keep it in remission. But there is no cure for addiction."

And Baldwin is adamant Lohan needed to be forced into rehab by the courts otherwise she might never have addressed her problems.

He adds, "Lindsay is Lindsay's own worst enemy right now. She just keeps getting her way, because she won't surrender to the fact that she has this disease and this problem. So it's going to probably take the L.A. court system and a smart judge to put the screws to her a little bit to get her to see the light of day."

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Hollywood Life

Even The Country’s Best Rehab Won’t Help Lindsay If Dina Doesn’t Get Help Too, Says Insider!

Lindsay Lohan is STILL in denial she needs to be in rehab…and it’s because her mom refuses to admit her daughter has a problem!

Lindsay Lohan was dragged kicking and screaming into UCLA’s Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital to serve her 90 days of court ordered rehab Aug. 1, but she isn’t completely to blame for her behavior. In fact, one insider tells HollywoodLife.com that the 24-year-old actress will have a hard time ever accepting treatment until her mom, Dina, also wakes up and smells the roses.

“Dina has actually told me before, ‘Lindsay has no problem; she’s just a normal girl,’” Los Angeles-based addiction expert Marty Brenner, who’s worked with the Lohan family before, says. “The reason Lindsay is still in denial is because everyone around her is telling her she doesn’t have issues. She’s listening to those she loves.”

If fact, Brenner says that Dina should seek therapy while Lindsay’s in rehab so that she’s able to act as the support system her daughter needs.

“Dina needs her own therapy and she needs to stop living vicariously through Lindsay. She has to understand that what Lindsay’s doing is NOT normal. That’s the only way this will work,” Brenner tells us, adding, “Lindsay could still take this like a joke. It’s up to her. She needs the biggest support she’s ever had right now.”

Although she spent nearly two weeks in a Lynwood, Calif. jail cell, Lindsay has refused to accept she has a problem, but Brenner says denial is common in rehab patients.

“She’s walking in with a negative mindset — that’s normal,” Brenner explains. “We’ll know whether or not she’s going to accept change after 30 days. She needs to detox and go through withdrawals, THEN all the issues will come out. That’s when everyone in the hospital will work as a team. Hopefully by then she’ll be on board.”

Brenner says there’s hope that the stubborn actress will get healthy and on the right track, but UCLA’s medical staff will have to design a program that’s unique to Lindsay…otherwise she’ll stay the same.

“If UCLA doctors have her go to group therapy at their outpatient facility called Matrix, which patients typically start after 30 days, she’ll never make it work. Going in group therapy hasn’t worked for her in the past. She felt different. She created havoc in the groups,” Brenner tells us. “UCLA should design a program that’s unique to Lindsay. She responds best to one-on-one treatment.”

Lindsay’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, said doctors are examining the prescription pills Lindsay is taking and deciding which ones should be stopped.

“Her doctors are looking at what prescriptions she is currently taking, whether or not the dosages need to be increased, decreased or stopped,” Holley told RadarOnline.com Aug. 3. “Lindsay’s doctors are looking at everything she is taking, and determining what changes if any need to occur.

However, no matter what the doctors say, it’s going to be up to Lindsay, Brenner says. “At the end of the day, it’s not the rehab that invokes change…it’s the person. Lindsay will get better if she wants to get better.”

–Kirstin Benson