Aug. 10, 2025

"FREAKIER FRIDAY'S $30 MILLION COMEBACK: How Lindsay Lohan Escaped 8 Years of Probation, The Bling Ring, and Hollywood Hell for Dubai Redemp

"FREAKIER FRIDAY'S $30 MILLION COMEBACK: How Lindsay Lohan Escaped 8 Years of Probation, The Bling Ring, and Hollywood Hell for Dubai Redemp

Reid Carter concludes the Lindsay Lohan saga with her shocking transformation from convicted criminal to Disney comeback queen. After the Bling Ring robbed her home, sharing a jail cell with her burglar, and fleeing to Dubai to escape American celebrity culture, Lindsay did the impossible: she got boring. Now married with a baby, sober for a decade, she's returned in "Freakier Friday" to prove child stars can survive. From 250 days in rehab to peaceful motherhood in the Middle East, this is how Hollywood's biggest disaster became its most unlikely success story. The verdict? Sometimes the defendant wins.

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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

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just survive, she won. And in a world where we're

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used to watching celebrities destroy themselves for our entertainment, that's

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the freakiest Friday of all. See you tomorrow,