Yes, in case you did not know yet, Lindsay Lohan has officially checked into rehab ... again. (Or was she just attending AA meetings before? Sorry, I can't keep up.) And, as per usual, her off-screen antics have disrupted the filming of her latest movie, I Know Who Killed Me. This time around, however, she's not showing up late or making up absurd excuses for her absence (fell down stairs? emergency surgery? broke a nail? trouble breathing? heat exhaustion?) -- oh no, it's rehab. So that means we have to be nice, right?
In the film, as we've previously reported, Lohan was set to play twin sisters Aubrey and Dakota, one of which gets kidnapped only to reveal the identity of the other one (because no one knew she existed) upon escaping her captor and landing in the hospital ... minus a hand and a leg. Since Lohan will remain in rehab for thirty days (does that mean we have to go a whole thirty days without any pics of Lohan out around town doing something stupid???), we're to assume filming will resume immediately following her release. Of course, that all depends upon whether Lohan will find yet another excuse to take a break from her hectic schedule.
Here's my question: If Lohan was not a celebrity and, instead, was just some regular old college girl, would her occasional drinking and drug use be enough to warrant a trip to rehab? Or, is this little stint in rehab more about repairing her image than actually helping the girl get healthy?
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1-19-2007 @ 1:41PM
Michael Schmitt said...
I'm voting for "repairing her image" as the excuse for going to rehab. She's 20... obviously too young to be drinking alcohol and her behavior wouldn't be tolerated at any other job, nor would it be tolerated if she acted this way towards attending college. Because so much is riding on this project and the fact that they're this deep into filming, the project will go on, it will have a bit more exposure due to this being "news", and Lindsay will be back at her job again for a while longer. I can't wait until she's featured on a "Where Are They Now?" show...
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1-19-2007 @ 3:54PM
Kevin said...
Of course its about repairing her image. For those of us who have attended college (especially in the last decade or so) we know that girls ages 17-22 go out and party hard all the time. As Michael Schmitt points out, the girls who do this excessively generally do not do well either in college or in the workforce. Because of that their is a sort of dual negativity involved with Lindsay Lohan, in that it is unfortunate that America comes down so hard on her, but it is also unfortunate that she can get away with what 99.9% of us would be fired/expelled for.
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