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Celebrity Trials is kicking off season two with a new
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host and new name. Hey, I'm Garrett Fisher, and starting
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March sixteenth, I'll be the new host on Daily Crime
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and Justice. It's the same great show, now with extra
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crime and extra justice. In the meantime, Please enjoy this
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encore performance of one of Celebrity Trials classic episodes. See
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you on March sixteenth. We'll miss you, Read Carter and
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wish you the best.
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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
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back to Celebrity Trials. Yesterday we left Lindsay Lohan serving
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four and a half hours of a thirty day jail sentence,
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turning the Los Angeles County Morgue into her personal community
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service venue, and treating court orders like suggestions from a
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friend you're trying to avoid. Today, we're going to see
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how she went from Hollywood's favorite punchline to something nobody
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saw coming, a legitimate comeback story. But first we need
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to talk about rock bottom, because Lindsay didn't just hit
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it once. She bounced off it like a basketball, each
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impact worse than the last, until finally, mercifully she stuck
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the landing March twenty twelve, after years of legal chaos,
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Judge Stephanie Sautner finally ends Lindsay's formal felony probation. But
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here's the thing. She's still on informal probation for that
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necklace theft. The judge's parting words, stop the nightclubbing and
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focus on your work. Lindsay's response, She went nightclubbing. June eighth,
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twenty twelve, Pacific Coast Highway again. Lindsay's driving her rented
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Porsche on her way to film Liz and Dick. Yes,
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she was somehow still getting hired when she slams into
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an eighteen wheeler. The truck driver says she was speeding
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and trying to pass him. Lindsay tells police she wasn't driving.
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Her assistant was the problem. Witnesses saw her behind the wheel.
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That's not just an accident anymore. That's lying to law enforcement.
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September nineteenth, twenty twelve, New York City, the Dream Hotel, Downtown,
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Lindsay allegedly clips a man with her car in an
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alley and keeps driving hid and run in Manhattan with
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witnesses with cameras everywhere. What was she thinking? She wasn't.
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November twenty ninth, twenty twelve, Avenue nightclub in New York,
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Lindsey gets into an altercation with a woman named Tiffany
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Mitchell over wait for it, a member of the boy
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band The Wanted. They're fighting over a boy band member.
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At twenty six years old, Lindsey allegedly punches Mitchell in
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the face. Forth the rest of the year. But here's
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where something interesting happens. The New York charges dropped. The
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Manhattan DA declined to prosecute, not because Lindsay was innocent,
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but because the witnesses were unreliable. Turns out, drunk people
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in nightclubs at four am don't make great witnesses who knew.
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March eighteenth, twenty thirteen, The Reckoning, Lindsay pleads no contest
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to lying to police about that pch crash. The sentence
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ninety days in lockdown, rehab, thirty days of community service,
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eighteen months of psychotherapy, and this time Judge James Dabney
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wasn't playing. This was lockdown, no leaving, no parties, no
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special privileges. She entered Cliffside, Malibu on May second, twenty thirteen,
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for the first time in six years. Of mandated rehab stints.
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She actually stayed the full ninety days, no early release,
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no good behavior reduction, ninety days of actual treatment. While
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she was in there, something else happened, something that showed
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Lindsay how far she'd fallen from America's Sweetheart to America's
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cautionary tale. The Bling Ring. Remember that a bunch of
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teenagers from Calabasas who robbed celebrity homes like they were
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playing Grand Theft auto with reel houses. Their ringleader, Rachel Lee,
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was obsessed with Lindsay, called her the ultimate fashion icon,
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the biggest Conquest. August twenty third, two thousand and nine,
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while Lindsay was at a party, these kids broke into
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her Hollywood Hills home and stole one hundred thirty thousand
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dollars worth of clothes and jewelry. They knew she'd be
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out because they tracked her on social media. They knew
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her schedule better than she did. But here's the twist.
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The surveillance footage from Lindsay's house is what broke the case.
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The girl who couldn't stay out of trouble accidentally helped
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catch a crime ring. Even better, when the story became
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a movie in twenty thirteen, directed by Sophia Coppola. Lindsay
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wasn't even in it. She was reduced to archive footage.
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Her actual life had become a plot point in someone
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else's story. One of the burglars, Alexis Nyers, ended up
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in the same jail as Lindsay adjacent Sells, the girl
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who robbed Lindsay Lohan was literally her jail neighbor. If
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that's not rock bottom, what is? July twenty thirteen, Lindsay
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leaves Cliffside Malibu for the first time in six years.
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She's actually sober. Not Hollywood sober, where you're only doing
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prescription pills, actually sober. She moves to New York starts
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filming a reality show for Oprah's network Lindsey. It was
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called Real Creative. The show was supposed to document her comeback. Instead,
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it documented her inability to show up on time, her
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chaotic living situation, and her complete inability to take responsibility
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for anything. Classic reality TV disaster. But something important happened
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during filming. Oprah herself sat down with Lindsay and Oprah
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asked her the question, and nobody else would. Are you
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an addict? Lindsay's answer yes, first time she'd said it publicly,
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without qualifiers, without excuses, without but I only did cocaine
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ten to fifteen times. Just yes, I'm an addict. Lindsay
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makes a decision that probably saved her life. She leaves America.
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She takes a job doing Speed the Plow in London's
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West End. Eight shows a week, no special treatment, You
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show up or you're fired, and something remarkable happened. She
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showed up every performance on time. The British theater critics
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who eat actors alive for breakfast actually praised her. More importantly,
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she discovered something in London, anonymity. I can go for
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a run here on my own, she said. I do
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every morning early, and I think how my friends in
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New York would still be up partying at that time.
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I needed to grow up, and London is a better
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place for me to do that than anywhere else. No paparazzi,
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no TMZ, no enablers. Just a woman in her late
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twenties trying to rebuild a career. She'd torched one performance
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at a time. May twenty fifteen, the milestone after completing
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one hundred and twenty five hours of community service. Judge
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Mark young ends. Lindsay's probation eight years. Eight years of
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probation finally over. She was twenty eight years old and
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free for the first time since she was twenty. But
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Lindsay didn't go back to La She didn't even go
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back to New York. She went to Dubai. Dubai where
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the paparazzi can't operate, where there's no night life culture
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like Hollywood, where nobody cares that you were in Mean Girls.
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She said, there's a certain calmness that I find there.
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There's no cameras, no paparazzi. That's a big deal for me.
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Think about that. She had to move to the Middle
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East to escape American celebrity culture. She had to go
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eight thousand miles away to find peace. Back in a moment,
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welcome back to celebrity trials. I'm read Carter, and we're
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witnessing something rarer than a unicorn. A child star who
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survived in Dubai. Lindsay Lohan did something she'd never done before.
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Nothing no movies, no music, no reality shows, no sponsored
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Instagram posts. She just lived. She learned Arabic, she studied
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the Qur'an. She visited Syrian refugee camps. She became of
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all things kind of boring, beautifully wonderfully boring. She opened
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nightclubs in Greece as an owner, not a patron. She
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dated quietly, no more toxic Hollywood relationships played out in
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the tabloids. In twenty twenty one, she got engaged to
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Bader Shamas, a financier from Kuwait, a man so private
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most people didn't even know his name until they were married.
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July twenty twenty two, Lindsay posts on Instagram, I am
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the luckiest woman in the world. She's married quietly, privately.
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No million dollar People magazine spread, no televised ceremony, Just
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a woman marrying a man who knew her as Lindsay,
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not as the girl from the mugshots. July twenty twenty three,
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Lindsay becomes a mother, a son, LOUI. She's thirty seven
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years old, living in Dubai, married, sober, and a mom.
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If you told anyone in twenty twelve that this would
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be Lindsay Lohan's life in a decade, they'd have thought
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you were higher than she was. But here's where it
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gets really interesting. Hollywood started calling again, not for reality
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shows or come back attempts real movies. Flick signed her
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to a multi picture deal. She made romantic comedies that
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people actually watched, Falling for Christmas in twenty twenty two,
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Irish Wish in twenty twenty four. Were they cinematic masterpieces? No?
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Were they competent professional productions where Lindsay showed up on
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time and did her job. Yes, and that was the
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miracle which brings us to this weekend Freaky or Friday,
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twenty two years after the original Disney called they wanted
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Lindsay back, not as a publicity stunt, not as a
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cautionary tale, as Anna Coleman, the character that made her
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a star before the wheels came off. Jamie Lee Curtis,
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who played her movie mom, had stayed in touch through everything,
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through the arrests, the rehab, the chaos. Curtis told People
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Magazine this week, I've watched her grow up, I've watched
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her struggle, I've watched her triumph. The movie filmed from
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June to August twenty twenty four. Lindsay showed up every
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day on time, prepared professional, Curtis said. Lindsay was so prepared,
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so ready to work. She was living in Nashville with
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her husband and baby, and she'd come to set with
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this peace about her peace. When's the last time anyone
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used that word about Lindsay Lohan. The early reviews are
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in the movie works. It's not just nostalgia, though there's
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plenty of that. Lindsay can actually still act. She's playing
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a mother now art imitating life, and there's a weight
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to her performance that wasn't there before. She's not trying
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to be the angenue anymore. She's a woman who's lived
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through hell and survived. The premiere was July twenty second
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at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Lindsay walked
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the red carpet with her husband, sober stable, smiling. The
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paparazzi were there, but they weren't hunting her anymore. They
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were celebrating her. Her parent trap co stars showed up
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a reunion twenty seven years in the making. They hugged
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her like someone who'd come back from war, which in
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a way she had. There's a moment in Freakier Friday
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mild spoiler alert where Lindsay's character talks to her daughter
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about making mistakes and finding your way back. The dialogue
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is standard Disney fair. But when Lindsay says it, it
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hits different because we know we all know what she's
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really talking about. In her interview with Elle magazine this May,
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Lindsay said something profound. I've lived such a long life
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at such a young age. I feel wiser now and
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very settled. I've become such a positive person, a positive person.
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Lindsay Lohan, the woman who wrote fuck you on her
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fingernails in court, is now describing herself as positive and
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meaning it. Look, I'm not going to sit here and
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tell you this is some fair retail ending where everything's perfect. Now.
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Addiction doesn't work that way. It's not cured, it's managed.
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Every day she wakes up in Dubai, every day, she
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doesn't drink. Every day she shows up for her son,
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her husband, her work. That's a choice, a thousand small
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choices that add up to a life. But here's what
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gets me. Lindsay Lohan had every excuse to fail. Toxic
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parents who sold her out for tabloid money, a father
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who recorded her crying and gave it to TMZ, a
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mother who parted with her instead of parenting her, an
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industry that enabled her worst impulses as long as she
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was profitable. A justice system that couldn't decide if she
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was a criminal or a celebrity, a public that turned
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her pain into entertainment. She had every reason to be
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another statistic, another child star who couldn't handle the transition,
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Another cautionary tale ending in tragedy, Another celebrity death we'd
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all pretend to be shocked by while secretly thinking we
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saw it coming. Instead, she's alive, she's sober, she's married,
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she's a mother, she's working, she's boring in all the
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best ways. The woman who served eighty four minutes for
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seven misdemeanors finally served her real sentence, eight years of probation,
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two hundred and fifty days of rehab, and a lifetime
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of consequences. But she served it, she survived it, and
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now she's on the other side. Yesterday, Freakier Friday opened
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in theaters across America. Families are going to see it.
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Kids who weren't even born during Lindsay's darkest days. They're
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going to watch her and have no idea that the
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woman on screen once drove down Pacific Coast Highway at
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one hundred miles per hour, drunk and high, chasing her
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assistance mother. They're just going to see Anna Coleman all
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grown up, dealing with her own teenage daughter. And that's
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the real miracle. Not that Lindsay Lohan survived, though that's
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miracle enough. The miracle is that she's become boring, wonderfully,
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beautifully successfully boring. She doesn't live in Los Angeles, she
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doesn't go to Hollywood parties, she doesn't date celebrities. She
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lives in Dubai with her husband and baby. She makes
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movies when she wants to. She goes to bed early,
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she wakes up without a hangover, she remembers her nights.
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That's not a comeback. That's a complete reinvention. So what's
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the lesson here? Is it that fame corrupts, that the
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justice system is broken, that addiction doesn't discriminate, that Hollywood
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enables destruction until it's not profitable anymore. Yes to all
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of that, but also this, Sometimes people surprise you. Sometimes
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the girl everyone wrote off, the woman who became a punchline,
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the addict who couldn't stay sober for eleven days. Sometimes
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she moves to Dubai, gets married, has a baby, and
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shows up to work on time. Sometimes the biggest plot
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twist isn't in the movies, it's in real life. Lindsay
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Lohan is thirty nine years old. She's been sober for
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over a decade, she's been married for three years, she's
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been a mother for two she's been free from probation
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for ten years, and yesterday she opened a Disney movie
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as a leading lady. If you'd written this script in
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twenty twelve, nobody would have bought it. Too unrealistic, too optimistic,