Lohan Was Only Trying To Help, Uncle Says
Chris Sullivan Suggests That Actress May Not Have Been In The Driver's Seat
26NEW YORK, July 26, 2007 | by Amy Bonawitz
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Julie Chen speaks with Howard Samuels, the director of the Wonderland treatment facility, about Lindsay Lohan's abrupt return to rehab, and how being a celebrity makes treatment more difficult. | Share/Embed
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(CBS) Lindsay Lohan's uncle says that his niece was actually trying to help her ex-assistant, Tarin Graham, when she was busted for DUI after chasing Graham's mother in her vehicle in Santa Monica on Tuesday.
Graham "is a problem individual and Lindsay was trying to help her out," Chris Sullivan told the New York Post.
Sullivan told the newspaper that Graham's "mother got involved and became hysterical."
"(Lindsay) may well have not been driving the car. This girl and her mother are letting Lindsay take the fall, but hopefully the truth will come out! That would get rid of most of the charges," Sullivan said.
Officers said earlier this week that Lohan and Graham's mother were in a "heated" argument at the Civic Auditorium parking lot in Santa Monica and suspected that Lohan had been drinking. When they took her back to the station they found cocaine in her pants pocket.Photos: Lindsay Lohan
Lohan told "Access Hollywood's" Billy Bush that the drugs were not hers and that she is innocent.Timeline: The Life Of Lindsay Lohan
Now that Lohan is back in treatment, the method of treatment will have to be stepped up a notch, says Dr. Howard Samuels, executive director at the Wonderland rehab facility in West Hollywood.
"She's becoming a professional, unfortunately," Samuels said on The Early Show Thursday. "There are many people that we work with at wonderland that go in and out of treatment. We have so many people that have been to all the treatment centers. And that's part of the process. So you can go at them harder because they've already been in so many treatment centers that you can start to identify their arrogance and their entitlement much more."
Samuels says that Lohan will likely participate in group therapy, individual therapy and 12-step meetings.
"Really getting the individual to have an understanding that it's not about them, that they are not the center of the universe. It's not about "don't you know who I am?"
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I like the comment I heard she made about the "alcohol monitoring bracelet" she was supposed to be wearing as part of her "treatment" that it wasn't "working right". Guess she didn't pay enough for her treatment, did she? What it should have done was shock her a** hard when she took those drinks, and continue to shock her until all the alcohol was out of her body - a few volts to the system might have kept her from being able to drive that night, don't you think?
{Posted by smartie100}
Evidently you do...you clicked on the story and stayed on it long enough to post your "don't care" comment....puhleeze!
And hey think about this with PH and LL if there ever another Noahs Ark well we have found the 2 idiots to board.