Here's a commentary in a column in today's Phila. Daily News -- in their gossip column, actually...
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Lindsay, alas, continues in a bizarre sense of denial.
"I am innocent . . . did not do drugs they're not mine. I was almost hit by my assistant Tarin's mom I appreciate everyone giving me my privacy," Lohan wrote in an e-mail to "Access Hollywood's" Billy Bush, the show Web site reported Tuesday night.
Huh? 1.2 on the breathalyzer, cocaine in the pocket, driving with a suspended license and another DUI already in the bank.
Even if the drugs weren't hers - doubtful - when you're two weeks out of rehab, how stupid/wasted do you have to be to hold someone else's coke?
Instead of "I'm innocent," isn't the correct statement here, "I really f----- up. Again. I'm so sorry. See you in a year."
Apparently not. Because no matter how often Lindsay allegedly breaks the law, apologists see a side of her that hasn't been evident for awhile.
Tuesday on "The View," "Access Hollywood's" Maria Menounos said she thought Lindsay was really "a great girl."
Producer James Robinson, he of the scathing letter about her behavior on "Georgia Rule," told "Extra," "I like the real Lindsay, I respect the real Lindsay."
Well, sorry, folks, but where is this "real Lindsay"? Where is this "great girl"?
For the last year or so, the only Lindsay any of us have seen has been a danger to herself and to society - two DUIs, drug possession, two rehabs, an endless stream of bad relationships and unflattering photos, etc.
Maybe this is the real Lindsay. And even if it isn't, her actions and her poor decisions count.
But instead of anyone taking responsibility for one of the fastest, biggest career implosions in movie history, her mother is lashing out at paparazzi while her father is going public daily with his divorce/custody woes. It's Lindsay's real-life "Parent Trap."
Meanwhile her grandmother, Ann Sullivan, is quoted in the New York Post as saying, " . . . Would you give her a break? Come on. She's fine."
She ain't "fine." Nor is she "great." We're not even sure if she's "real."
We are sure she's a troubled, hurting mess who needs at least a six-month timeout from Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, Las Vegas, nightclubs, limos, hangers-on and certainly driving - before her next snorting session or DUI results in a death.