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Lohan has been in several rehab facilities since then, however none of them seemed to help. Until she got convicted for a felony which made her realize she had to change her lifestyle.  On February 2011 Lindsay was charged with felony for supposedly stealing $2,500 necklace. During this time Lohan as under probation and it had been violated. There were people claiming they saw what she did. Lindsay was sentenced to 120 days of jail. However she did not agree this and placed a $75,000 bail. The following quote shows how Lindsay was never very responsable with her actions and the decisions she took "Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?",

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"Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?"

"Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me."

"I hate it when people call me a teen queen."

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-Lindsay was once an innocent Disney Star, who got involved with alcohol and drugs which led to her downfall starting 2007. However before this disaster she was once an innocent little girl. Lindsay was born on July 2, 1986. As stated before Lindsay's first major role in the theater industry was in 1998 for the Movie "Parent Trap" with Disney. Later in 2004 Lindsay was part of "Mean girls" which was a commercial success for her professional career.  Lindsay then extended her career into music and production. By December 2005 she released a darker and more intense side of her self with a new album, called "A little More Personal". However this did not stop Lindsay from the world and drugs and addiction. By 2007 she had committed her first mistake relating to driving under the influence which led to her placement in 3 rehabilitation centers. "I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict." In this quote Lindsay clearly demonstrates how even though she had a problem relating to addiction and partying she still hadn't come to terms with her issue and accepting she needed help. As the years passed she still wasn't taking her like seriously, on 2010 Lindsay had failed a drug test and

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Lindsay can be connected to Hamlet in the way that they both changed from one day to another. Hamlet and Lohan were both looked up to by the people. Hamlet was famous and loved by all of Denmark but after the death of his father he was unable to accept and the consequences followed him forever. He began to become an obscure character and be very arrogant at times which led people to believe that he was crazy, not with love but because of his father’s passing. Similarly Lohan grew up to be the exact opposite of what she was when she starred in The Parent Trap. What was a prudent sweet little girl in the movie grew up to be an alcoholic and drug addict which ruined her public perception. They are both connected by the fact that they feel pressured to be the best yet they are also in a state of quandary. Lindsay was pressured by Disney to be the best in acting. Because of all the pressure she had to endure this eventually led her to drug abuse. On the other hand, Hamlet felt pressured by his father’s ghost to take revenge of Claudius. This clearly shows how Hamlet and Lindsay can relate in more ways than one.

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This could be the last story you read about Lindsay Lohan for the next three months if all goes well during her 90-day stay at the Betty Ford Clinic.

Just days before checking into court-ordered rehab last week, the actress spoke extensively to Piers Morgan in an article for London's Daily Mail newspaper, which published it in this Sunday's edition.

Lohan, who turns 27 in two months, told Morgan, host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" she's never been "a huge drinker" and despite rumors, failed drug tests and a drug possession arrest, she's only used cocaine "maybe four or five times in my life."

She's spent more than 250 days in rehab and another trip "is pointless," she said in the Daily Mail story. Instead, she should be allowed to "go abroad to different countries and work with children."
Lohan's life off the rails
Lohan's life and career ran off the rails starting in her disastrous year of 2007 when she was twice convicted of drunken driving, once for cocaine use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay. Her arrests were "totally irresponsible -- a stupid mistake," she said.

"And from then on, the press were on me all the time," Lohan said. "It was the first time I'd taken drugs. I was out in a club with people I shouldn't have been with, and took cocaine, and got in the car. It was so stupid."

Her first rehab visit was not because of drugs or alcohol but to help her deal with the trauma she experienced making a movie, she told Morgan.

She voluntary checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles while she was shooting "I Know Who Killed Me" in January 2007.

"I was having really bad nightmares, and the movie was pretty traumatizing," Lohan said. "So I stayed in a facility so I could get some sleep and talk about it with someone the next day, because it was overwhelming. But I would leave every day and just sleep there at night. I liked that. It was kind of like having my own live-in therapist, because I was having crazy nightmares and I was having AA meetings on set and stuff. It really helped."

She had been drinking for less than a year at that point, Lohan said. She stayed away from alcohol after her first hangover experience at 17, when her mother made her "sleep with vomit still on me so I'd understand how it felt," she said. "I was too scared!"

She was a good teenager, she said. "My friends and I would actually pretend to be drunk," she said. "And it was more fun. I never rebelled against my parents -- I worked hard, I was responsible and I didn't go to high-school parties."

She doesn't consider herself to be an alcoholic -- "I've never woken up in the morning and had a drink" -- but "when I was younger, I was definitely going out too much and I was drinking too much."

Lohan considers herself an expert on rehab facilities.

"I've been court-ordered to do it six times," she said. "I could write the book on rehab. Constantly sending me to rehab is pointless. The first few times I was court-ordered to rehab, it was like a joke, like killing time."

Morgan interviewed her before the confusion erupted over which rehab facility she would enter. After arriving at one -- which California officials said was unlicensed -- she left for the Betty Ford Clinic, where she spent her last and longest rehab stay.

"I look at it as a good thing," she said about this rehab visit. "I can come back afterwards and be fully focused on work. But I think there are other things I could do instead of going to a rehab center that would benefit me more. The best thing they could do for me would be to make me go abroad to different countries and work with children."

If she is not a drug user -- she tells Morgan she smoked "some pot" a year ago -- or an alcoholic, then why would she need rehab, Morgan asked.

"This is where it gets hard for me to explain," she said. "I don't think there's anything wrong with people taking time to just be by themselves. I think people want to see me do that. They will keep saying the same things about me if I don't. I don't think it will be a bad thing for me to be away with myself for three months."

Although now confessing to Morgan that she used drugs a year ago, she told Matt Lauer on NBC's "Today" show a year ago that that she was "clean and sober" then for "a long time."

Although she was once arrested for cocaine possession and later sent to rehab when she violated probation by testing positive for the drug, Lohan said she rarely used it since "I don't like it."
Cocaine: Not her favorite drug
"It reminds me of my dad," she said. "I took it four times in a period from about the age of 20 to 23, and I got caught twice."

Cocaine made her feel "a little too buzzed -- it made me feel uncomfortable," she told Morgan.

She's not "a junkie," she said. "It's the truth. I've never taken heroin either, never injected myself with anything, never done LSD. Those things all scare me."

Her drugs of choice are "pot, obviously, and Ecstasy," she said. "I liked that (Ecstasy) better than the others." Morgan reports Lohan then giggled.

Lohan has previously acknowledged having a drug problem, though. She posted this Twitter message in September 2010 just before entering the Betty Ford Clinic for three months: "Substance abuse is a disease, which unfortunately doesn't go away over night. I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps."

Lohan claimed to Morgan that she's just misunderstood. The constant online tabloid reports of late-night partying, which sometimes results in legal issues, don't show the real person.

"I've never been a junkie, and never will be," she said. "I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music. Always have done. It's not that unusual for girls of 26!"

She slowed down on her drinking on the advice of an actor, Lohan said.

"Heath Ledger told me to give it up for a year because he'd just done that, and so I did, and it wasn't a problem for me," she said. Ledger was 28 when he died from a prescription drug overdose in January 2008, a year after Lohan's first rehab visit.

Lohan also talked to Morgan about her sexuality -- she's straight despite a past relationship with a woman. "I like boys," she said.

"I know I'm straight," she said. "I have made out with girls before, and I had a relationship with a girl. But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for something different."

She said she was in love with Samantha Ronson during their relationship, and "I still love her as a person."

"I like being in a relationship with a guy," Lohan said. "But there's something just different about it with a woman. When I was with Samantha, I didn't want to leave, because I didn't want to be alone. It was very toxic."

About her father, Michael Lohan: "He won't change," she said. "I just think there comes a point where you just kind of have to accept what it is.

"Whenever I do try to bring him back into my life, he creates chaos for me and uses it to his advantage. He's been really good and then really crazy my whole life."

While she blames the Los Angeles lifestyle for steering her off course, she does point to two Hollywood women who have helped her.

"Meryl Streep was nice," Lohan said. "She just advised me on my acting and what I needed to do differently, and she told me I needed to go back to live with my mum for a while."

She couldn't move back to New York because at the time, her probation requirements, which including regular drug testing, restricted her to California -- "the worst possible place I could be," she said.

"Jamie Lee Curtis was very kind to me, too," she said. "She also told me to listen to good advice and to get rid of the hangers-on."

Will you see another story about Lindsay Lohan's substance abuse and legal troubles before she's scheduled to get out of rehab in early August? What could happen in the Betty Ford Clinic, a well-respected refuge for those needing to get their lives back on track?

Lohan was accused of assaulting a Ford staff member during her last stay in December 2010, although the investigation was suspended on December 24 after the staffer drops charges against Lohan.

Just weeks after her release from there, she was again involved in controversy for stealing a necklace from a jewelry store. It was that shoplifting conviction that put her on the road to her current rehab visit.

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This could be the last story you read about Lindsay Lohan for the next three months if all goes well during her 90-day stay at the Betty Ford Clinic. Just days before checking into court-ordered rehab last week, the actress spoke extensively to Piers Morgan in an article for London's Daily Mail newspaper, which published it in this Sunday's edition.

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Lindsay Lohan became notorious amongst publicists and societies eyes when she first became known for her roll in "Parent Trap" (1998). She had become a Disney Star, on her way to absolute success. However growing up with paparazzi's around her and the spotlight facing her way, brought with it toxic situations and problems that would lead to disastrous effects. This had a fractious relationship with the media. Subsequently Lindsay fell into a downward spiral of drug abuse and alcoholism. In her eyes she was living the life and it was inconsequentially. When Lindsay was going trough all this problems the press and media attacked her, she was their main focus. You may ask yourself why? She was a human suffering and that made the best headline. This is because people would look up to her and compare their lives with her's to make themselves feel better. For times she would try to make this surreptitiously, but it eventually got out to the world. Because all of this Lindsay became considered a Tragic Hero. She went from being a sweet little girl to a drug addict who was charged for felony.

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- Lindsay was once an innocent Disney Star, who got involved with alcohol and drugs which led to her downfall starting 2007.
- Even though Lindsay changed from day to night in front of us, she will always be remembered as the sweet girl in "Parent Trap" who grew up to be the opposite.
- Lohan has been in several rehab facilities since then, however none of them seemed to help. Until she got convicted for a felony which made her realize she had to change her lifestyle.

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- Notorious: (adj) Widely known because of bad conduct.
- Fractious:(adj) tending to be troublesome; unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable.
- Toxic: (adj) poisonous.
- surreptitiously:(adj) kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
- inconsequential:(Adj)

unimportant.

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Why is this application of tragic elements so widely used in news headlines today?

1. Makes other feel better about their lifes.
2. It attracts the masses
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