Lindsay Lohan & Oprah Interview: Did Lindsay Lie About Cocaine on Oprah’s Next Chapter?
August 19, 2013 by Hollywoodite
Lindsay Lohan appeared on Oprah’s Next Chapter this weekend and it was pretty much as cloy, repetitive, “heard it all before”, and phoned in as one would expect. Mostly because Lohan downplayed her drug use and claimed her parents were a good influence so… yeah.
Asked by Oprah whether Lohan was an addict, the actress said yes. Asked whether she was “addicted to chaos”, she replied yes. Asked what else she was addicted to, she responded “alcohol.” So she’s readily admitting to being an alcoholic but she’s still lying about her drug use. Asked how often she’s tried cocaine she said “10-15″ times, as though it wasn’t a lot, and as though the number were accurate.
You may recall, she previously told the “truth” to Piers Morgan immediately before going into rehab and when asked the same question she said she’d done cocaine 3-4 times and hated it. Soon after that interview, Morgan did his own interview and called Lohan a liar about her drug use. He was obviously correct in his presumption.
Is Lohan more forthcoming now she’s out of treatment? Or, since Oprah is paying the actress’ way through the reality show, is she saying and doing what she thinks will please the mogul?
She explained on the show, “I really haven’t done [cocaine] more than 10-15 times; of course I said 3-4, because I was terrified of being judged. I never felt good the next day. It’s a party thing, people would have it and I’d do it. It went hand in hand with drinking.” Here’s more…
Lindsay Lohan’s highly anticipated sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey on the OWN Network has finally arrived. Just four days after leaving a court-mandated 90-day stint in Cliffside Malibu Rehab Center on July 30, the troubled star opened up to the TV personality on her past “addiction to chaos” and how this recovery will be different. The interview aired on Sunday, Aug. 18.
“I feel really good. It’s strange being confined for three months straight and then try to acclimate into real life,” the 27-year-old actress began about her return. Lohan was sent to rehab after her March 2013 no-contest plea to reckless driving and lying to police, but revealed it felt more like a true surrender compared to previous punishments.
“Having all the chaos around me that I was so comfortable with — I somehow inside of me knew I wanted to go in jail,” she said on her 90-day stay. “I think that was subconsciously going on in my head through my actions…just to have some peace,” she tearfully admitted. “I came into it just really craving more spirituality, really open and ready to get really honest.”
But that choice took “a period of time” to realize, she said –three years after spending two weeks in jail in for failing to attend her court-ordered weekly alcohol education classes. Lohan called that jail sentence terrifying. “Just seeing my mom and sister’s face in that courtroom and my dad was just heartbreaking. It was horrible. I just remember this rush of heat coming over me and just not knowing what to expect,” she said of hearing the judge’s decision. “I don’t think the embarrassment was as prominent as the shame and the guilt.”
Lohan’s downward spiral began when she moved to Los Angeles in her late teens on the heels of her 2004 Mean Girls success. Falling in with the wrong crowd, she developed her drug of choice — alcohol. “That was a gateway for me for other things. I tried cocaine with alcohol,” she said. Lohan admitted she snorted cocaine 10-15 times in her lifetime, but only did it in order to drink more, she claimed.
Lohan promises this time is different, and despite what the public may think, she has never felt exploited by her parents. Though her childhood at times was chaotic, her once-warring parents, Dina and Michael Lohan, are currently getting along fine, she said.
Indeed, the actress — who rose to stardom in 1998′s Parent Trap — hopes to regain the success she once had. “I’m my own worst enemy,” Lohan said. When asked what she wants the most now, she replied: “To get the things that’s made me the happiest in my whole life back, which is just work really hard and stay focused and prove myself in the way that I did before in the past and lost. I have to regain the trust of people in my career that has their doubts.” In fact, when Winfrey voiced her concerns about the actress going to Europe so quickly after rehab for a yoga and meditation retreat, Lohan cancelled her flight two days later, Winfrey revealed. – via Us Weekly.
