The Telegraph has a rather epic interview with Lindsay Lohan – go here to read the full thing. I think it probably started out as just a standard what-is-this-actress-up-to piece (ahead of her turn in Speed-the-Plow), but at some point, it morphs into Lindsay Lohan: Portrait of a Cracked-Out Mess. Subtitle: “It’s Never Lindsay’s Fault. Ever.” The Telegraph goes through LL’s filmography and tries to pinpoint when everything went wrong for her. By the end of the piece, The Telegraph is outright comparing her to Heath Ledger and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as someone on the verge of succumbing to the worst part of addiction. The piece starts out in the bar of the Connaught Hotel, and The Telegraph writer notes: “It was her idea to meet there – not just the Connaught Hotel, but the bar, though another room had been arranged.” When LL greets the journalist, the journo smells the liquor on Lohan and LL is sitting with two men. Some highlights from the piece:
Rehearsals for Speed-the-Plow: “I’m there. I’m there early. I’m there early. And the next day I’m up at 7am. And I’m 10 minutes late – 10 minutes late – and I’m like apologising. I was crying yesterday. I was like, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m 10 minutes late.’ I felt bad, I felt bad. I’m sounding like my character now, I keep repeating myself, oh my god.”
It’s all Oprah’s fault: “After the Oprah show it was kind of hard for me to be in New York. There started to be paparazzi, and I didn’t have that in New York in the beginning. People have had this misconception of me, that I love that attention. And that’s what they’ve made me out to be. But I never wanted that. I accepted it – I didn’t have a choice. Every time I left my house they were at the corner. Every time I went down a side street they were at the corner. If I tried to lose them they’d chase me and I’d get in an accident. That’s what happens.”
In the beginning, she wanted to be like Britney Spears: “And then once I started to have it, I was like: Oh, f—. I can’t do anything.”
When everything went bad: “I was kind of hanging on to nothing. I was by myself for a long time. And it was hard to be in LA – I had this beautiful house, and these things, which really don’t, essentially, mean anything. And it was… it was rough for a minute. But then I thought: I can just put my ducks in order and figure it out.”
Living life in the public eye: “Living a life in the public eye – that, I could have taken more responsibility for. But I didn’t know how. Honestly, I didn’t know how. I didn’t realise it – I’ve never Googled myself, I don’t understand it.”
Being ordered to work at a morgue: “F’d up and inappropriate – because a lot of other people were meant to do it, and they were like: ‘No, they can’t handle it. Lohan can.’ It’s different for me than it would be for other people – like, no one would really have to work at the morgue in LA and roll a body bag for Whitney Houston.” Still, she made the best of it: “I know it sounds really dark and strange, but I thought it would be a lot worse. I kind of regulated a lot of it. I’d tell people: ‘You didn’t fold that sheet properly’, because I’m OCD with folding.”
Where she’ll be in five years: “I can go with five. That’s as far as I can go. I’m glad that I’m finding my way. I want to work for this next year, and then take some time, and hopefully fall in love, and hopefully have a family. Now I see all these kids that are living so fast. I think: I’ve been there. I want to hold them, and say: it’s not worth it.”
I think the Telegraph writer was trying to give LL the benefit of the doubt for the most part, which is awfully quaint because Lindsay is the kind of user that can destroy a saint’s goodwill in 10 minutes. When the journo asked Lindsay who she might start a family with, this is what happened: “she smirked so uncontrollably it looked for a moment as though her face might cave in.” No, that’s just her face. Her stupid smirk-face because she thinks everyone is so dumb and that we believe all of her crack lies. “I’ve never Googled myself, I don’t understand it.” Crack liar tells crack lies. News at seven.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
What a f***ing liar. Wasn’t she done with her morgue service by New Year’s? Whitney died shortly on Valentines Day (or a little before or after). But I can’t say I’m surprised by Lindsay’s interview, she’s a narcissist who lost touch with reality long ago. This is just a pathetic attempt to make herself look like the victim again. It’s a tired game we’ve all seen her play too many times before. Why anyone still gives this trick attention is beyond me.
Michael K posted a street photo of Lindsay in NY on the day Whitney Houston died.
ETA: TMZ says LL did community service at the morgue until March 2012, so I guess she could have flown back but I still think she’s lying.
Plus when the story of her doing that community service broke, the authorities issued a statement that she’d be doing janitorial work. That’s it.
If she hates the publicity so much…go away. She’s always crawling around red carpets and parties and anywhere that will get her attention. Just go buy a little house in the middle of Montana and live quietly, if that’s what you want!
I’ve never seen someone lie so frequently, despite knowing that people catch her in the lies every time.
The only other public figure I know of that lies as much as Lohan is Rob Ford. Crackies of a feather.
Yes, thank you!! I highly doubt they let the criminals who are there doing community service near the bodies, much less Whitney Houston’s body! Jesus.
She completed her stint roughly 3 months before Houston died. That’s honestly what I thought they were going to focus on. I wish the author had researched it and called her out in the article
If that had actually happened, LiLo would have been talking about it before now.
Lies, lies, lies
http://www.gossipcop.com/lindsay-lohan-whitney-houston-body-bag-morgue/
But I’m sure it’s the interviewers’ fault.
I agree!
She’s such a crack liar! Whitney died in 2012 and Lilo’s community service was in 2011. Never let the facts get in the way of a crack lie.
In five years I wouldn’t be shocked if someone was rolling her body bag.
Metaphorically rolling Whitney, or things I thought happened while I was sh*tfaced?
Rolled a doobie more like it. Because she’s really OCD about folding bindles.
Ha, I have no idea why the word doobie makes me laugh uncontrollably..
blue doobie marie!! I miss your CB presence and sing songie doobie laughing. 😀
I was going to track you down the other day to post the annoying song stuck in my head, but luckily for you I was side-tracked. I woke up this morning to..
“They call us problem child, we spend our lives on trail, we walk an endless mile..”
Haha! I wanna hear you say, I remember youuUUuUuuu…
Ha, I knew you’d know it!
sorry guys, but blue marie was quoting “Youth Gone Wild”and mimif quoted back “I Remember You.” Two different songs.
/only person in America who still owns all of Skid Row’s albums slinks out of thread
Haha, no I know no I mimif was quoting a different song, but she guessed the artist (by answering back with a song of same artist) and that was what I was going for.. it’s a game we play.
And don’t be ashamed I still have them somewhere in my CD collection.
Rolling Whitney Houston’s body bag is Blohanese for rolling on ecstasy while listening to “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”.
Bwahhaha! Good one, TOK.
Haha, O’Kitt.
No surprise that the timeline doesn’t match. Apparently she completely missed the point of doing community service at the morgue.
It won’t let me reply to blue Marie directly…whoops!! I didn’t realize it was a game. 🙂 my bad!
On other note I am watching this episode of Top Chef Duels with Scott Ian and Rob Zombie as guest judges…wow. So much second hand embarrassment right now.
someone needs to teach her how to read the calendar sometimes.
also a crash course on how to tell time. long hand goes here, the short hand goes there.
looks, it’s 4.20! it’s LiLo time!
She lies and lies and lies. She did not have anything to do with WH. She has destroyed her looks, her body, her credibility with her drinking and gacking. She has become a gross disgusting grifting liar. I can’t even feel pity for her because she made it all happen on her own.
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Did anybody else read this in a twitchy erratic tone.?
Yes, I admit to that. It was hard not to, because the excerpt reads erratically.
Yes. I was highly annoyed by the sound of her voice in my head as I was reading it.
I actually was hearing Lohan’s voice more in the vein of Harvey Fierstein.
““I’m there. I’m there early. I’m there early.”
Yeah, she sounds like she is trying to sound coherent while under the influence of something.
How was the mourge inappropriate? Plenty of people are sentenced to do community service at morgues, coroner’s offices or other places that are intended to “showcase” the eventual consequences of stupid, reckless decisions. Something tells me she was just pissed that she was sentenced to do actual “work” among “regular” people.
Even Chris Brown was able to pull off community service without all this drama. When Chris Brown can do something with less strife and whining then you, isn’t that sort of a sign that you’ve gone over the edge?
And no, Oprah isn’t to blame for the paps. Lindsay acting bizarre and claming to have had a miscarriage whipped them into a frenzy.
They don’t let anybody handle the bodies except the staff, right? So even if Houston had been there at the same time as Lilo, this would still be impossible, right?
She didn’t say she’d handled the body, though, just the body bag. It’s possible.
So there’s a possibility that she touched or handled the body bag that Whitney was in. By even mentioning it makes her look more desperate and sad.
Coronor just came out to say that Whitney was never even in a body bag.
Exactly, Erinn. So it was as we all assumed: this is a big crackie lie!
Exactly, only people who are qualified and trained, actually handle the deceased in the morgue.
Only the police or the coroner actually get to see the bodies for professional purposes, as in to decide how the person died. Of course the family sometimes sees the body of their loved one for identification purposes or to say goodbye. After all that, the body gets taken away by funeral staff and prepare it for being out in a grave or to be cremated.
Other people, like Lindsay, do the cleaning of floors and surfaces, without witnessing any dead body. They are protected that way, because seeing a dead body can be hugely traumatic.
But to take your post literally. Yes she may at most have rolled a clean, empty body bag, into a tight bundle so it’s easy to pack and use.
Not only that, high profile people get extra attention to ensure TMZ doesn’t end up posting photos of their corpse, no one believes you Lindsay.
….did she just confess that shes already showing up late for rehersals?
Yep. Once the show opens, the real fun will begin, it seems.
But she is sorry. OK?!
It’s only ten minutes! And she was early! She was early! It’s only ten minutes!
I imagine the next day it was 20, then 30, then 40…
She’s trying her damnedest to worm her way out of it: “they yelled at me (ME!!!) for being, like, TEN minutes late. I just couldn’t work around such negativity.”
Wait for it.
I feel like every time she brings up something from the past unexpectedly, it’s always a precursor to her doing something incredibly stupid and asshole-y. The story invariably is whiny, so when she does the stupid thing, the memory about how put upon she is because she is famous is fresh in your memory.
Please. Lohan, if you weren’t famous and white, you’d still be in jail.
Reading the interview, the interviewer was believing everything Lohan said – to the point where she actually threw Oprah under the bus, claimed that she ‘planted’ people to make Lohan fail and basically blamed her for Lohan falling off the wagon when Oprah was the one giving her this opportunity. WTF.
“Last year, after her sixth stint in rehab, Lohan decided to star in a reality TV series made by Oprah Winfrey. The premise: Winfrey would keep her on the straight and narrow, and Lohan would make a comeback.
The result: Winfrey harangued and patronised Lohan, quizzed her parents, planted people who were supposed to help her but who then gave up on her ostentatiously. In short, Lohan fell off the wagon and was exposed”
Why would you invoke the wrath of almighty Oprah?!
let’s say the plant people were true. and all the other bad things Oprah did….
i thought people love comeback kids, underdogs prevailing, happy endings.
since when did people love to see other people fall off the wagon?
but apparently according to her, in that world, people love to see Lindsay Lohan fail?
i don’t believe that at all. even here, and other places, there are still people wishing her well, giving her the second billionth benefit of the doubt, many second chances…
Because Lindsay Lohan has no f*cks to give. She never has. This attitude of blaming others and never taking responsibility for anything ever is her trademark. It is also what makes her an entitled a**hole. And is the reason she will never get better.
This exactly
Like Oprah has nothing else to do. Even with the most cynical view you could muster of Oprah, you can’t see her be bothered with tripping up Blohan.
The idea that Oprah was entrapping Lindsay is laughable. This girl is not satisfied with biting the hand that feeds her, she has to follow that up with a smear campaign, she’s such a fool.
I can see the Cracken rolling something for sure, but not a body bag. What’s the point of saying this anyway? More attention, more notoriety. Don’t think there’s any doubt she will wind up having a bad ending. She’s fallen far down the rabbit hole and likely wont make it out.
Stay classy, Linds.
What exactly did she want to do for her community service? Brush kittens? It’s supposed to be a punishment and lesson, you’re not supposed to like it!!!
I do remember reading that she was desperate to be like Britney with all the paps following her — be careful what you wish for. If she had played her career different, post Mean girls, she may be different today.
She always looks so dirty to me, even in that dress
I think the last line in the interview about wanting to tell kids not to grow up so fast is sort of touching. I think totally think Lindsay is a delusional addict, but at the same time I think she does realize that something went wrong in her life and is sad about it.
This made me feel a bit sorry for her too (although after reading the comments, I also feel like a chump for doing so!). After seeing Beyonce and Jay in Paris, such a great city to wander in, with people all over them, all the time–that can’t be an easy way to live.
Can’t wait til this play starts. This is going to be an epic fail. Since when could she act anyway?
Exactly.
she was able to pull of a natural teenager in front of the camera, and she had quiet a cheeky charisma to her.
Sans drugs she probably needed to read a scripty three times to memorize the lines.
So this is what she did: memorize a line, stand in front of a camera, have millions thrown at her. She thought it would be like that forever.
her charisma wont come back, and it really shows she never had acting lessons. Actors take lessons, they work on their voice, their body, they dance or whatever, but they work on themselves.
lindsay always thought she was too good for all that
Is she so totally gone that she thinks anyone believes her? (Yes.) WTF kind of person makes up stuff like that? (A delusional crazy one). Why am I answering my own questions? She kind of shocks me and not in a good way. For awhile, I just thought “There goes that Smoke Crackin again, that crazy kid!! But now she is making me nervous.
I know LiLo is one of the favorite targets on this site (and her Cracken nickname makes me laugh) but the thing is I can’t help to feel sorry for her. I loved her in Freaky Friday and Mean Girls and there was a time I thought she was a good actress and that maybe she would have a great career… What a pity.
Just reading bits of this interview, I can tell Lindsay is tweaked out her mind! A compulsive drugged out liar cannot help themselves and will never get better when people enable them.
I used to really love to hate Lindsay’s pompous low rent antics.
Now, I just see a mentally ill young woman, whose words never match her actions leaving a trail of evidence behind for her inevitable involvement in some sad and tragic future event that will really get someone hurt.
I don’t think it’s mental illness so much as substance abuse. Maybe she’s “self-medicating” but partying too much is her problem.
I think that the impulsivity, lack of focus, narcissism, stealing, promiscuity and temper tantrums are part of an underlying mental disorder. No doubt she’s self medicating as well.
I think you are both right.
I just want to say uh lindsay you are standing on your dress don’t trip over your self blowing kissess.
She’s often so full of it that it’s hard to know when she’s lying and when she’s not.
I used to like her and feel sorry for her, but I don’t know if she’ll ever change.
I hate that Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman were even mentioned here. I’m going to sob all through Mockingjay.
The interviewer seemed to go out of her way to make Lohan as sympathetic as possible. It’s obvious that she didn’t do a lot of research before the interview.
I want to know if The Cracken’s two male companions stayed for the entire interview. Were they “johns” or her pimps?
TMZ has a report from the coroner calling BS on the story – even saying that Whitney’s body was never in a body bag and that it wasn’t there for long. AND that no one from the probation program got near to Whitney’s body .. so crack lies again.
Her understudy for Speed the Plow is gonna be a star!
In the beginning, she wanted to be like Britney Spears: “And then once I started to have it, I was like: Oh, f—. I can’t do anything.”
THIS! I have said all along she started foaming at the mouth back when Britney had her meltdown…she wanted all of Britney’s paparazzi attention.
I think she was just being *dramatic* with the mention of Whitney Houston. She probably didn’t mean that she had literally done that; she just name drops by habit.
Ick. I defended Crackie. Should I shower?
Not at all. Maybe call Dina up and invite her for a cocktail.
True, the alcohol on her breath would sterilize me adequately.
Like most of her lies, 1% truth, 99% fabrication.
L-Cubed. It needs to be included in the next Webster’s edition. Lindsay Lohan Lied.
That dress… She’s wearing the pelt of the last known Bleached New Jersey Crack Tiger. Hideous.
Certainly no surprise that she has no respect for the dead.