This story has been floating around for a while. It sounds like Lohan is now putting her own spin on it, like those Febreeze commercials where people think they’re in paradise and it’s really just a filthy mess that someone sprayed with chemicals. To recap: in late July, right before Lohan got sprung from rehab, we heard that Ben Affleck had visited her there and was considering hiring her for his film, Live By Night. That story originated in Roger Freidman’s column, and Friedman insisted that he heard from two separate sources that Ben talked to Lindsay about a specific starring role.
Well Affleck’s people shot that rumor down quickly, with a source telling US Magazine that Lohan “will not be cast in any role in the movie. She is not being considered for any role in the movie. She won’t be in the movie.” Alright, we get it, Lohan isn’t going to get cast. Fast forward a couple of weeks and now Lindsay is calling her best buds at TMZ and spinning it like Ben was just there give her a pep talk and tell her to stay sober.
Lindsay Lohan got a surprise visit while she was ensconced in rehab — we found out Ben Affleck had a secret meeting with her as a show of support.
Affleck — who himself was in rehab back in 2001 — met Lindsay somewhere away from the Cliffside rehab facility in Malibu where Lindsay was getting treatment. We’re told Ben gave her guidance on how to maintain sobriety after rehab for someone in Hollywood.
We’re told Ben talked to Lindsay about how to make a comeback in Hollywood — a subject on which he’s an expert. Ben talked to Lindsay about her career — on how talented she is and how she has the ability to turn things around.
Ben also told her how supportive the entertainment community is for people who make a real effort to get better and stay clean. Our sources say the meeting really touched her.
The meeting was not about Lindsay appearing in Ben’s new movie, “Live By Night.” Lindsay will not be in the flick.
Translation: Ben put some feelers out to see if Lindsay was sober and coherent enough to stunt cast. He quickly realized that she was in no way fit to act or to insure. He realized that the publicity for hiring Lindsay would have been so bad that he should deny ever considering her for a film. Note that he didn’t deny visiting her in rehab, so that probably happened. Once Lohan started talking in that raspy voice about how she was misunderstood and just wanted to focus on work, it dawned on Ben that she was as much of a mess as the press claims. He fed her a bunch of lines about how she should stay sober and how she would make a comeback, but in no way was he going to gamble his movie on it. Instead of realizing that she’d been passed up for a role, Lohan decided to say that Ben was there to show “support.” She hasn’t gotten through life this far without an very unhealthy dose of self delusion.
Ben Affleck is shown out on 8-2-13 and 7-29-13. Lindsay is shown out on 8-5-13. Credit: FameFlyne
He underestimated her ability to latch onto something/one.
He won’t make that mistake again!
Dude. It’s like he’s a rookie. Anyone with a healthy dose of respect for their career would stay the eff away from this girl.
Maybe she has dirt on Affleck and is blackmailing him. Haha.
Maybe he really did visit her to offer support and do something nice. Who is to say? His career took a nose dive after that abomination of a film with Lopez. Maybe he was drinking or had some other addictive issues in the past. Maybe he has a soft spot for the underdog?
LiLo is hardly an underdog. She is an attention seeking creature that tries to bring down anyone in her path. Anyone involved with her in any way even if that is just saying hi to her at the grocery store is not smart. If you see this woman run don’t walk as far away as possible, especially if you are famous and or rich.
@TG Deserved or not, she is a pariah in the eyes of the public. That makes her an underdog, because she is almost universally hated and mocked.
Further, she is not winning at her game.
@Kiddo
I totally agree. Celebs (and ordinary folk) do this alot. Charlie Sheen has an epic list of celebs who reached out. Same for RDJ and Sean Penn. Recovering addicts stepped up forBen, so he is paying it forward.
I think Ben was only trying to lend support to her since he battled some substance abuse demons of his own in the past. All it takes is one person to suggest otherwise to the media and then the real story gets replaced with a more interesting one. I highly doubt Ben ever wanted Lohan in his next film. I’d seriously question his sanity if it’s true.
Perhaps he’s a better person than we realize and he truly wanted to give her a chance, since he was given a second chance. Well, and then of course, he realized. Lindsey is too stupid to realize she obviously screwed up the meet. And it’s a shame too, because an opportunity like that could have really legitimized her.
Ugh. When will people learn? No good deed goes unpunished with this trick.
But…Affleck isn’t sober. Remember? He drank his way through every Oscar interview right up through the after-parties. One journo even mentioned his drink (bourbon, I think) during the interview. So are we (Team Affleck) now pretending none of that happened?
Because Ben was never an alcoholic. He was a guy in his 20s who gained access to lots of money and the club scene and partied too often. He realized this lifestyle was detrimental considering he had a recovering alcholic for a father and he got help before he ended up becoming one himself.
At 40, he has every right to have a drink. He can handle his alcohol and he isn’t out in clubs partying every night. There is a major difference in the lifestyle, especially since he never even checked into rehab for being an alcoholic.
If he was drinking through every Oscar interview, he cannot handle his alcohol. Most alcoholics do not go out partying every night. And very, very many manage to have highly successful careers too.
I’m pretty sure he was/is an alcoholic. There were interviews around the time he made Pearl Harbor and he seemed absolutely wasted and addicted, so I believe it when it’s said that he went to rehab.
He did not “drink his way through every Oscar interview” nor was it every night. The press interviews you at the Governors Ball directly after the Oscars is over, where celebrities only stay for like 10-15 minutes. You only have time for like one drink. The press aren’t allowed inside the vanity fair party. And I ask you Emily, WHY SHOULD A 40 YEAR OLD MAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO CELEBRATE WITH A DRINK?
And again, he was never an alcoholic. He can handle his alcohol just fine.
@Liv
He was never an alcoholic. He checked into rehab for being a partier who like clubs and got a lot of money really fast and his lifestyle is what did him in. He realize he WAS on the fast track to alcoholism since his father was a recovering alcoholic which is why he went to rehab. He went to nip the problem in the butt before it became a problem. That’s like a frat guy who parties every night and decides to stop that 20 years later is seen having a drink, does that mean he’s some villain? No, it means he’s no longer a huge partier and can handle his alcohol.
He was addicted to Vicodin. I think he once said he was taking ten a day. He was on a destructive path more than anything with his life and turned it around.
I think he also had a gambling addiction a few years ago.
I hope when he got home that night after seeing her, Jennifer made him bathe with a hot bleach solution.
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Ben would never be feeling her out to hire her. Has anybody seen her acting in the last four movies or so? Awful, amaterurish, wooden. Ben is a hit filmaker who doesn’t need a loser actress on his set. It would hurt his credibility and production, not vice versa. He puts out quality movies that make money. What does he need her on set for holding up production and not able to nail lines and not able to even act?
The guy was really hooked on Vicodin and (coke?) and was really messed up for a while. I truly believe as an ex-substance abuser he went there at this crucial period for her to give her support. Robert Downey Jr. received that from people at his lowest points, too.
Agree Jayna. I think Ben Affleck was trying to do something good.
It did sort of annoy me though, because there are so many deserving and aspiring actors out there who would do anything to get a meeting with Ben Affleck for a few minutes. And this disaster girl gets his attention? I think this sort of thing feeds her delusions of grandeur rather than helping her stay sober, sadly.
Her last flick grossed a grand total of $30,100 last weekend. What a market for her films!
It annoys me that Ben did that to be a good person and did it in secret but Lindsay’s camp *cough Dina cough* just HAD to leak it. No good deed goes unpunished, apparently.
I don’t think she understands someone just being nice and supportive (like it’s a totally foreign concept to her). Ben learned the hard way you can’t give Lindsay an inch, she’ll hijack your movie project and your IMDB page. Even after they flatly denied her casting she’s still got herself listed as rumored on the project. Ben, see what happened to the Gotti movie.
I appreciate what Ben tried to do for her but…
Why do people even give this slunt the time of day?!!!! She’s a crackhead with NO redeeming qualities. At this point I honestly don’t care about her sobriety or “comeback,” I just wish she’d GO AWAY!
WTH??? Why does Ben Affleck get to completely let himself go like that??? – those pictures, egads!
So he found out her blowjobs weren’t all that great.
She doesn’t have Miley’s tongue.
or as another site said Ben Affleck was at Cliffside on June 30th to give a motivational speech of how to recover from addiction and get back on track to 20 or so patient inmates what every you call them Lindsay at least was more inmate then patient since she was there by court order….anyway …She was one of 20 other people he talked to…..Now I figure just like Woody Allen made the mistake of being in the same party with her and being polite and speaking to her when she came up to him ..Being in the same room with Ben with those 2o other people in her mind he was speaking only to her and her alone…..thats how you get this story…….No what Ben and Jennifer has to worry about now is Lindsay showing up outside their house and were they go to have dinner …etc ..She is a known stalker like she stalked Woody Allen to that resterant in NY …..LOL….Pure Lohan Spin Shyt.
I’m waiting for more party pics of her to surface. You know it’s coming …
It sounds like Lohan is now putting her own spin on it, like those Febreeze commercials where people think they’re in paradise and it’s really just a filthy mess that someone sprayed with chemicals. – good bless you for this LOL
I know, that made me laugh so hard!
Why would ben need stunt casting? He is just coming off a movie thats won every award out there. He can literally cast anyone he likes. I think most of this is Lohan spin machine, apparently another site said he was there to give a motivational speech to all the patients. Somehow it turned into him casting her in a movie etc.
Agreed. I am not a fan of Affleck’s, but I highly doubt he has any need to stunt cast anyone at this point in his career.
Agreed – he doesn’t need to stunt cast at all, let alone with someone like her.
i think he just likes a quickie from a dirty girl here and there
Lohan is the queen of self of self delusion. She should try telling the truth but we all know that ain’t gonna happen. She’s a professional liar.
@Kiddo – Only time will tell if she is or isn’t winning at her game. But I see it differently. She got Ben Affleck to visit her and she got Oprah on her side so she is winning at her attention seeking game. This woman is a master manipulator. I mean she manages to manipulate judges, jail and lawyers alike. She pulled a stunt the day she was supposed to enter rehab and balked at the first center that was already approved by the judge, then she gets to choose the Betty Ford Clinic and then halfway thru that she decides she wants to go somewhere else. She is very good at getting what she wants and pushing the limits. Any one else in her situation would be done. No new jobs lined up. Lots worries after all that trouble. I mean she was out shopping. Where is she getting this money from? Maybe she gets it from whenever her movies ar run on TV, I don’t know. Despite her being clean from alcholol and drugs she doesn’t wait 2 minutes from her release before she is leaking to the press that Ben Affleck offered her a job in his movie. This is someone that needs constant attention in whatever form she can get it. This has nothing to do with drugs or alcohol.
Edit: Just read the comment about how Ben was really there to give a motivational talk to other patients, which I would tend to believe over this liar. Why did it say he met her away from the center though? This stuff is weird. All I know is anyone having anything to do with her whether intentionally or accidentally or indirectly is going to regret it.
He couldn’t have met her away from the centre. She was in lockdown rehab remember so she wasn’t allowed to leave the facility.
Oh he prob just “visited” to plead that she not out him for hiring escorts. . . I believe this more than movie talk.
Remember when Ted revealed that Soderberg actually wanted Lilo for a tiny role in Magic Mike but she pissed it away and it went to Riley Keogh? For a certain type of small role, it would seem that there’s still a little interest in at least seeing if she can get her act together. Hiring her would bring a ton of attention to any project – granted, the next lesson is that it’s almost entirely negative attention. And honestly, no one really wants to believe that somrone is as far gone as she is, without at least seeing it first.
I don’t believe that Ben was there. It’s just to stupid to consider. Why would he? Is he idiot? And remember that this is the same Ben that run away from the movie when Kristen Stewart was cast. Because he did not wanted to be in tabloids. Why on earth would he go to Lohan?