Past Experiences With Alcohol and Drugs Land Lindsay Lohan in Jail Again
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 is a date that Lindsay Lohan will not forget – hopefully. Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in a drug rehab which she will immediately go to after completing her 90-day jail sentence that was handed down by the judge rendering the decision in her case. Although Lohan reacted in shock and tears, she is no stranger to run-ins with law enforcement due to alcohol and drug abuse in the past. Lohan’s list of legal issues is anything but stellar . . .
In February of 2005, she got sued in a personal injury case wherein Ilex Harris and Eddie Pamilton were allegedly injured in an automobile accident involving her. In October of that same year, she crashed her vehicle again in West Hollywood, CA and wound up getting an ambulance ride to the hospital where she was treated for minor injuries. She was 19 years old at the time.
The following year started off with a bang for Lohan as well when the magazine “Vanity Fair” published an interview they had with her in January of 2006 wherein she claimed to be suffering with bulimia. Lohan turned around and denied it even though there were numerous quotes in the article, one of which quoted her as saying, “I was sick. Everyone was scared. And I was scared too. I had people sit me down and say, ‘You’re going to die if you don’t take care of yourself.'”
A year later (January, 2007), she checked herself into a rehab because she “made a proactive decision” in order to address her personal health and attempt to improve it. According to her publicist, she had been attending AA meetings for over a month at the time she entered the alcohol and drug rehab. Ironically, 5 months later (May 2007), Lohan drove her Mercedes into a curb and was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Additionally, the police report stated that a cocaine-like substance was found in the vehicle.
Two days after her arrest on May 28th (Memorial Day weekend), she once again checked into an alcohol and drug rehab. On June 14th (17 days later) she crashed into a van in Beverly Hills and was accused of being drunk again according to a lawsuit that was launched in October of 2007. A gentleman named Raymundo Ortega claimed that he had seen Lohan in the Ivy Restaurant earlier that evening consuming mixed drinks and getting drunk.
One month to the day (July 14th), Lohan checked out of the rehab center and celebrated the completion of her 45-day stay by partying with friends in a Las Vegas nightclub. Supposedly, she remained sober and never drank with her friends. Only 10 days later, she is once again pulled over by the police in the early morning of July 24th and was arrested on 5 different counts which included driving with a suspended license, driving under the influence, and possession of narcotics.
Lohan got sued again on August 14th and then charged with 7 counts of misdemeanor behavior stemming from the 2 prior DUI arrests that happened earlier in the year. That December, a video played on the TV show TMZ which shows her in Italy partying with friends and drinking champagne straight out of the bottle. In October of this past year (2009), she was handed an additional year of probation by the court for her two DUI arrests in 2007 because she failed to attend her court-ordered alcohol education classes.
This past April (2010), Lohan got fired by the producer of “The Other Side” claiming that he felt she was no longer “bankable.” In June, the Beverly Hills court judge assigned to her case issued an arrest warrant for her and orders bail in the amount of $200,000 because she violated a court order to not consume alcoholic beverages. Additionally, she was wearing a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet at the time of her violating probation.