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Calarogus 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 night clubbing
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and focus on your work. Lindsay's response, she went nightclubbing.
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June eighth, twenty twelve, Pacific Coast Highway again. Lindsay's driving
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her rented 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. Lindsey 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. Fourth 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 Lindsey 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 psycho therapy, and this time, Judge James
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Dabney wasn't playing. This was locked down, no leaving, no parties,
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no special privileges. She entered Cliffside Malibu on May second,
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twenty thirteen, for the first time in six years of
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mandated rehab stints. She actually stayed the full ninety days,
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no early release, no good behavior reduction, ninety days of
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actual treatment. While she was in there, something else happened,
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something that showed Lindsay how far she'd fallen from America's
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sweetheart to America's cautionary tale. The Bling Ring. Remember them
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a bunch of teenagers from Calabasas who robbed celebrity homes
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like they were playing grand theft auto with reel houses.
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Their ringleader, Rachel Lee, was obsessed with Lindsay, called her
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the ultimate fashion icon, the biggest conquest. August twenty third,
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two thousand and nine, while Lindsay was at a party,
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these kids broke into her Hollywood Hills home and stole
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one one hundred and thirty thousand dollars worth of clothes
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and jewelry. They knew she'd be out because they tracked
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her on social media. They knew her schedule better than
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she did. But here's the twist. The surveillance footage from
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Lindsay's house is what broke the case. The girl who
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couldn't stay out of trouble accidentally helped catch a crime ring.
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Even better, when the story became a movie in twenty thirteen,
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directed by Sophia Coppola, Lindsay wasn't even in it. She
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was reduced to archive footage. Her actual life had become
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a plot point in someone else's story. One of the burglars,
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Alexis Nyers, ended up in the same jail as Lindsay.
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Adjacent sells the girl who robbed Lindsay Lohan was literally
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her jail neighbor. If that's not rock Bottom. What is
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July twenty thirteen, Lindsay leaves Cliffside, Malibu for the first
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time in six years. She's actually sober. Not Hollywood's so
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where you're only doing prescription pills, Actually sober. She moves
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to New York starts filming a reality show for Oprah's
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network Lindsey. It was called Real Creative. The show was
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supposed to document her comeback. Instead, it documented her inability
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to show up on time, her chaotic living situation, and
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her complete inability to take responsibility for anything. Classic reality
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TV disaster. But something important happened during filming. Oprah herself
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sat down with Lindsay, and Oprah asked her the question
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nobody else would Are you an addict? Lindsay's answer, yes,
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first time she'd said it publicly, without qualifiers, without excuses,
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without but I only did cocaine ten to fifteen times.
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Just yes, I'm an addict. Lindsey makes a decision that
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probably saved her life. She leaves America. She takes a
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job doing speed the Plow in London's West End. Eight
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shows a week, no special treatment, you show up or
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you're fired. And something remarkable happened. She showed up every
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performance on time. The British theater critics who eat actors
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alive for breakfast actually praised her. More importantly, she discovered
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something in London anonymity. I can go for a run
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here on my own, she said. I do every morning early,
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and I think how my friends in New York would
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still be up partying at that time. I needed to
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grow up, and London is a better place for me
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to do that than anywhere else. No paparazzi, no TMZ,
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no enablers, just a woman in her late twenties trying
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to rebuild a career. She'd torched one performance at a time.
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May twenty fifteen, the milestone after completing one hundred twenty
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five hours of community service, Judge Mark Young ends Lindsey's
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probation eight years. Eight years of probation finally over. She
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was twenty eight years old and free for the first
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time since she was twenty. But Lindsey didn't go back
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to LA She didn't even go back to New York.
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She went to Dubai. Dubai where the paparazzi can't operate,
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where there's no nightlife culture like Hollywood, where nobody cares
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that you were in mean Girls. She said, there's a
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certain calmness that I find there. There's no cameras, no paparazzi.
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That's a big deal for me. Think about that. She
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had to move to the Middle East to escape American
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celebrity culture. She had to go eight thousand miles away
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to find peace. Back in a moment, welcome back to
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celebrity trials. I'm Red Carter, and we're witnessing something rarer
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than a unicorn. A child star who survived in Dubai.
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Lindsay Lohan did something she'd never done before. Nothing no movies,
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no music, no reality shows, no sponsored Instagram posts. She
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just lived. She learned Arabic, She studied the Qur'an. She
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visited Syrian refugee camps. She became, of all things kind
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of boring, beautifully wonderfully boring. She opened nightclubs in Greece
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as an owner, not a patron. She dated quietly, no
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more toxic Hollywood relationships played out in the tabloids. In
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twenty twenty one, she got engaged to Bader Shamas, a
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financier from Kuwait, a man so private most people didn't
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even know his name until they were married. July twenty
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twenty two, Lindsay posts on Instagram, I am the luckiest
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woman in the world. She's married quietly, privately. No million
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dollar People magazine spread, no televised ceremony. Just a woman
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marrying a man who knew her as Lindsay, not as
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the girl from the mugshots. July twenty twenty three, Lindsay
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becomes a mother a son, Leui. She's thirty seven years old,
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living in Dubai, married, sober and a mom. If you
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told anyone in twenty twelve that this would be Lindsay
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Lohan's life in a decade, they'd have thought you were
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higher than she was. But here's where it gets really interesting.
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Hollywood started calling again, not for reality shows or come
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back attempts, real movies. Netflix signed her to a multi
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picture deal. She made romantic comedies that people actually watched,
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Falling for Christmas in twenty twenty two, Irish Wish in
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twenty twenty four. Were they cinematic masterpieces? No? Were they
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competent professional productions where Lindsay showed up on time and
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did her job. Yes, that how was the miracle which
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brings us to this weekend Freaky or Friday twenty two
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years after the original Disney called they wanted Lindsay back,
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not as a publicity stunt, not as a cautionary tale
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as Anna Coleman, the character that made her a star
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before the Wheels came off. Jamie Lee Curtis, who played
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her movie mom, had stayed in touch through everything, through
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the arrests, the rehab, the chaos. Curtis told People Magazine
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this week, I've watched her grow up, I've watched her struggle,
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I've watched her triumph. The movie filmed from June to
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August twenty twenty four. Lindsay showed up every day on time,
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prepared professional, Curtis said. Lindsay was so prepared, so ready
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to work. She was living in Nashville with her husband
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and baby, and she'd come to set with this peace
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about her peace. When's the last time anyone and use
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that word about Lindsay Lohan. The early reviews are in
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the movie works. It's not just nostalgia, though there's plenty
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of that. Lindsay can actually still act. She's playing a
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mother now art imitating life, and there's a weight to
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her performance that wasn't there before. She's not trying to
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be the angenue anymore. She's a woman who's lived through
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hell and survived. The premiere was July twenty second at
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the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Lindsay walked the
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red carpet with her husband, sober stable, smiling. The paparazzi
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were there, but they weren't hunting her anymore. They were
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celebrating her. Her parent Trap co stars showed up a
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reunion twenty seven years in the making. They hugged her
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like someone who'd come back from war, which in a
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way she had. There's a moment in Freakier Friday mild
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spoiler alert where Lindsay's character talks to her daughter about
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making mistakes and find out 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 fairy tale 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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parent 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, Freaky or Friday
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opened 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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assistants 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,
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too much of a stretch. But reality doesn't care about believability.
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Reality just is. I'm read Carter, and this has been
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Celebrity Trials. Tomorrow we're back to our regular programming Murder,
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Mayhem and justice Delayed. But today, just for today, we
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got to tell a different story, A story where the
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defendant becomes the hero, where the attict becomes the mother,
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where the cautionary tale becomes the comeback. Lindsay Lohan didn't