Lindsay Lohan went through a difficult detox process in rehab, sweating and shaking as her body adjusted to a lack of opiates and alcohol, according to the upcoming issue of Star Magazine. Lindsay was busted for driving under the influence after a minor car accident before she checked into Malibu’s Promises rehab, and statements by her estranged father indicate that she was addicted to the powerful painkiller Oxycontin.

Star is set to claim that Lindsay is refusing visits from family members, and that she has smuggled in a Blackberry to keep in touch with friends, even though the devices are usually banned at Promises.

Despite toughing out her withdrawal, Lindsay is said to be begging friends to sneak her some sleeping pills into rehab. Maybe she thinks that sleeping pills are a minor transgression compared to what she used to be on, but it’s still not a good sign for her recovery.

Lindsay did not eat much during her detox and is craving sugar, just like Britney did in rehab. Lohan is going for the fake stuff and is said to put up to 25 packets of Splenda in her coffee at a time!

What’s more is that Lindsay has supposedly hired a $2,000/day “sobriety coach” to stick by her side in Promises. Why does a sobriety coach cost that much? Designer rehab Promises costs $48,000 a month and you think that would be enough of a wake up call for Lindsay to get her ass in gear.

Here’s more from the Star article:

The young actress was in such a dire state that staff at the rehab facility prepared for the worst.

“She looked dead,” says a source, who adds that the troubled actress appeared to be scary skinny, pale as a ghost and very quite. “She looked like a stray dog the pound had just taken in.”
Insiders reveal to Star that party girl Lindsay spent her first 4 days detoxing, from alcohol, cocaine, and prescription drugs like Percocet and Vicodin.

“She said she felt bad – really bad,” says the source. But she’s gone through rehab before and she said she’d be OK if she were left alone to lie down in a dark room. She apparently was a veteran who knew the drill and was “used to doing it her own way.”

She got the “sweats” during the detox process, but seemed really tough about it. She refused meals, says the source, but wanted water and crackers. This is Lindsay’s second stint in rehab this year, first in January at the Wonderland Center in L.A.

At $48,000 for a 30-day stay, Lindsay gets a room with an ocean view in the 16-person facility. No cell phones or BlackBerrys are allowed, but somehow, say insiders she managed to get her BlackBerry in - and shockingly she’s been asking friends to smuggle sleeping pills in as well!

“She’s in rehab because of her addiction to drugs – everything from cocaine to OxyContin and Ambien – but she’s complaining she can’t sleep,” says a close friend. “She’s been texting friends 24/7, begging them for pills!” Insiders also reveal that she’s more concerned about her upcoming 21st birthday bash in Las Vegas on July 2.

Lindsay has given up on meals, but has been loading up on coffee sweetened with about 25 packages of Splenda. A source reveals to Star, “It’s typical for someone coming off cocaine, even alcohol, to load up on sweets. I’ve heard this can happen with almost any patient. Sugar gives you a high.”

Lindsay also hired a sobriety coach at $2000 a day to be with her around the clock, and is occasionally allowed off the Promises premises to attend addiction group meetings. She won’t allow her parents, Dina and Michael, to visit her.

[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 18, 2007, recap from Crazy Days and Nights]

Lindsay has been seen out of rehab several times attending a local gym, and her only visitor so far has been her bodyguard. She was so happy to see him after three days that she jumped up and wrapped her legs around him.

TMZ reports that those shocking knife photos of Lindsay in sexy poses with Vanessa Minnillo were swiped from her apartment while she was in rehab by someone who had ready access - most likely a friend.

While recent reports had Lindsay’s rumored gay lover, DJ Samantha Ronson, setting her up for paparazzi and planting that coke in her car, Ronson denies selling out her friend.

Thanks to INFDaily for these pics of Lindsay greeting her bodyguard. Used by permission.