if there’s one perfect example of a child star Suffering The Wrath of Hollywood hell it’s the story of Lindsay

Lohan

from abusive parents to mismanaging money to being eviscerated by the press to substance abuse then her

movies flopping while she experiences a very public downward spiral she truly has experienced every element of the

child star curse then again her own inexcusable behaviors and Reckless lifestyle have genuinely put her and

others in danger at some point adults can’t just blame their past for their current mistakes when you learn

Lindsay’s story you won’t be sure to feel bad for her hate her or feel genuinely confused how her reality

stretched so far from the redheaded 2000’s pop culture Queen Lindsay’s Story

begins just like most child stars everything is seemingly perfect to the public but behind the scenes is an

entirely different reality Lohan grew up on Long Island New York at 3 years old Lindsay’s parents Michael and Dena

thrusted their daughter into the spotlight and signed her to Ford models a prominent modeling agency based in

Paris with several Studios across the us as a child model Lindsay posed for Brands like Calvin Klein kids and abber

cromi she also appeared in over 60 television commercials for Brands like Pizza Hut and Wendy’s as well as a jell

spot with Bill Cosby not even old enough to attend kindergarten Lindsay balanced work with a normal childhood that was

unfortunately consumed by conflict as her parents on and off again relationship presumably made life more

difficult for their four children in particular her father Michael had frequent run-ins with the law and served

jail time in a stock fraud case when Lindsay was 4 years old Lindsay’s mother Dena detailed numerous horrific

incidents of physical abuse and domestic violence she endured at the hands of Michael including being rward worded by

her own husband her mother said Lindsay saw her dad abuse me that’s why she’s so screwed up Michael vly denied all

accusations but you’ll notice her father’s Behavior gets her in trouble through her career despite the conflict

that pursued at home Lindsay excelled in the workplace in 1998 Lohan competed against more than 1500 young actresses

to book a lead role in the remake of the 1961 romantic comedy film The Parent

Trap the film follows identical twin sisters who are separated at Birth due to their parents’ divorce each parent

takes one of the twins to raise without informing the other twin of their existence throughout the film The Twins

accidentally meet for the first time at a summer camp in Maine initially unaware of their relationship they quickly

realized they are sisters and devise a plan to switch places with the aim of reuniting their parents because the film

revolved around identical twins each actress submitted audition tapes for both roles I don’t know if I was alone

here but when I saw this movie as a kid I genuinely thought these were two different people her feature film debut

in The Parent Trap not only showcased her potential as a leading actress but earned her critical Acclaim Lohan did

not just do her part alongside legendary actors like Dennis sad and Natasha Richardson she excelled and received

praise from critics for her performance her debut was a resounding success and the film earned over $92 million at the

worldwide box office she was Hollywood’s next child Superstar the film earned Lohan a young artist Award for best

performance in a feature film and a three film contract with Disney the first film in her contract was another

remake more specifically a remake of the 1976 comedy film Freaky Friday Freaky

Friday centers around a mother and a daughter who magically swap bodies throughout the film the pair are forced to live each other’s lives the mother

has to navigate the complexities of high school in contrast the daughter must manage her mother’s work responsibilities as a psychologist and

prepare for her mother’s upcoming wedding to her fiance Freaky Friday wasn’t just a cult classic for ’90s

babies who grew up on Disney it grossed over $160 million at the worldwide box

office it’s also worth mentioning that Lindsay’s aesthetic didn’t match the typical bright-eyed bushy tail Disney

star she had more the alternative aval LaVine esque look that made her seem

more mature which made it easier to eventually break out of the child star chains Lohan also decided to embark on

the cliche child star to pop star career path piggybacking off the movie She released her first single ultimate she

was becoming a product of the Disney pop star Factory executing the same promotional strategy of releasing her

second single drama queen after her 2004 Disney comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen after these three films she

had already secured her Legacy as a Disney icon and a beloved child star but her next role as Katie Heron in Mean

Girls stamped her place in cinema history as this film is in contention for being one of the best high school

movies of all time Mean Girls follows Katie Heron a teenage girl who moves to

Illinois from Africa where she has been homeschooled her entire life why don’t I know you I’m new I just moved here from

Africa what so if you’re from Africa why are you white she starts attending

Northshore high school and is overwhelmed by these social dynamics and clicks Katie is befriended by two social

outcasts who teach her how to adapt to the school’s social structure she is also noticed by the Plastics led by

Regina George for her good looks the Plastics invite Katie to join their group and Katie is encouraged to accept

the invitation as a way to spy on the Plastics break down their popularity and expose their evil intentions to the

whole school upon release Mean Girls receive positive reviews from critics and although it was OV exaggerated it

did provide a somewhat realistic lens into the cruel and unapologetically mean behaviors and attitudes of high

schoolers and it definitely created quotable scenes that have lasted two decades I can’t go

out I’m sick boo you the film was a massive Commercial

Success grossing over $130 million at the worldwide box office Lohan won the

award W for breakthrough performance at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards which she

actually got to host I cannot believe I’m hosting the MTV Movie Awards this is going to be so much

fun oh yeah um these are my parents Donald and Judy loen hi

gang it is always so nice to meet Lindsay’s friends MTB said they had to

be here with me you know since I’m naught yet she’s the youngest host they’ve ever had Lindsay Lohan was on

top of the world at age 17 she was already doing cover shoots with headlines that read why is America

falling in love with Lindsay Lohan she even got to host Saturday Night Live Lindsay was in the prime of her career

and although we probably remember her as being extremely popular and relevant for many years her dominance only lasted

roughly from 2003 to 2006 as her commercial success and public perception

would start to spiral out of control her troubled household in New York seemed to reach a Tipping Point just before

hosting the MTV Awards her father Michael Lohan aged 42 was accused of

striking his brother-in-law Matt Sullivan at a First Communion party at the family’s home in Merrick New York

her father was arraigned in first district court in Hemstead on charges of second-degree assault and aggravated

harassment he maintains that Sullivan was drunk and responsible for the fight a few days later her father was due in a

Manhattan courtroom to face similar charges in an unrelated case for allegedly beating up a City Sanitation

worker that same month Michael was arrested and charged with theft of services after allegedly skipping out on

a $3,800 bill at a hotel these incidents further placed a spotlight on Lindsay

who was unfairly held accountable for her father’s actions but in July of 2004 Lindsay officially turned 18 and moved

to Los Angeles by herself instead of buying a house she used her multi-million dollar movie earnings to

live in hotels spending one year at the Hollywood Roosevelt followed by two years and two Suites at the Chateau

Marmont and these rooms cost hundreds maybe thousands of dollars per night she was easily spending upwards of a million

dollars per year to live in hotels Lindsay said I didn’t want to be alone so whatever I needed I could just go

downstairs and there were people there she now recognizes the unhealthiness of that a combination of being a misguided

teenager with millions of dollars while struggling with the trauma of her parents was a recipe for disaster the

early 2000s was also notorious for sexualizing young female stars a brenti

and medin a brenti and medin a brenti and medin the magic isn’t happening I’m

going to disagree with you one month after her 18th birthday she landed the cover of Rolling Stone with the headline

hot ready and legal after she turned 18 she immediately began doing scantily Cloud photo shoots and being praised for

her good looks this was definitely a strange dichotomy because during all of this she was filming her next big Disney

film Herby fully loaded it’s safe to assume that Disney wasn’t happy with her new adult image because they stopped

working with her after this film it’s crazy to think that in the beginning of 2004 she was Disney’s Teenage Drama

Queen and by the end of 2004 she was gq’s Covergirl she quickly developed a

badir persona but it didn’t seem like she was trying to escape her child role it kind of seemed like the tabloids just

gave her the Persona and she just kind of ran with it Lindsay drove a $200,000 convertible Mercedes-Benz had a

rhinestone sidekick always was stepping out with expensive bags partied all night at the hottest clubs with Paris

Hilton and her celebrity friends had Rendevous with desirable older men in Hollywood like actor Wilmer valderama

Lindsay was everything adolescent girls growing up in the 2000s wanted to be just looking at her fashion sense alone

feels like you’ve been thrust into a time capsule back into the early 2000s and she did not give off the vibe that

she was trying too hard she just had it factor to compound her success she released another single rumors which

peaked at number six on the billboard bubbling under Hot 100 chart and would go on to sell 500,000 copies her debut

album speak would go on to receive a platinum certification she was also the most popular star at a time where

Paparazzi and tabloid culture was at an all-time high they swarmed her like flies everywhere she went shouting

random questions at her trying to get her to slip up hoping to capture just one frame of her looking disheveled or

messy to have a cover Story one time she even crashed her car trying to escape the paparazzi only for them to spin the

narrative on her and blame her for driving recklessly when it was actually a member of the paparazzi who crashed

into her car trying to get a picture of her her physical health was deteriorating due to her chaotic life

she said I had no time to go to the dentist but something happened with my tooth the dentist had to come see me it

was just so much all the time then in October of 2004 Lindsay was hospitalized for 5 days for heat exhaustion with a

representative later revealing she had a kidney infection due to her being dehydrated and overworked however

Lindsay often arrived late and exhausted to set because she spent so much time partying in 2006 while working on the

romantic comedy film just my luck in New Orleans Louisiana the tabloids captured Lohan at numerous bars and nightclubs

after long days of filming the film crew saw her partying in the papers and were frustrated with her performance on set

I’ve never seen anything like this she’s making our lives hell it’s just not professional one film crew member

remarked while working on the film George O rule James G Robinson the chief of Morgan Creek Productions wrote a

letter to Lohan scolding her for her behavior you and your representatives have told us that your various late

arrivals and absences from the set have been the result of illness today we were told it was heat exhaustion we are well

aware that your ongoing all night heavy partying is the real reason for your so-called exhaustion news of her lousy

Behavior spread across the industry as many deemed her irresponsible and unprofessional she lost out on several

movie roles including a woman of no importance and the edge of Love tired of her addiction impacting her career

Lindsay entered a drug rehab program for the first time in January of 2007 during her 30-day stay at the Wonderland Center

in La Lohan continued working on the film I know who killed me unfortunately things only got worse on May 26th 2007

when Lindsay lost control of her Mercedes-Benz and struck a curb in Beverly Hills California she was

promptly arrested on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge immediately Lohan checked into the promises Treatment

Center in Malibu for her second visit to rehab after her 45-day rehab stay Lohan

was volunt fitted with an alcohol monitoring bracelet just 2 weeks after checking out of rehab a woman called

Santa Monica Police alleging that Lohan was trying to run her down with a car the police arrested Lindsay once again

and charged her with drunken driving cocaine possession and driving with a suspended license it’s also important to

remember that even when she was attending AA meetings and attempting to do the right thing she was still being

hounded by Paparazzi just look at them waiting for her after she leaves an AA meeting get out of the way get out of

the way get out

come

on in August 2007 Lindsay entered rehab for the third time but opted to go somewhere isolated instead checking into

the cir Lodge Treatment Center in Sundance Utah while in rehab she pled guilty to misdemeanor cocaine use and

driving Under the Influence Lohan was sentenced to serve one one day in jail along with 10 days of community service

and 3 years of probation she also had to pay a fine and enter an alcohol education program by October her stinton

rehab was over despite being sentenced to one day in jail she spent a measly 84 minutes in a Los Angeles County Jail due

to what the sheriff described as jail overcrowding as if her legal trouble and reputation weren’t bad enough all of her

films after 2007 either bombed commercially or received overwhelmingly negative reviews her career was almost

at the point of no return and she had to get clean in 2008 she managed to stay out of trouble well besides saying this

about Barack Obama you were a really big Obama supporter so tell me what that night meant for you it was really

exciting it’s it was such a I mean it’s an amazing feeling it’s a whole it’s our first you know president Paparazzi and

gossip sites knew she was a ticking time bomb and they did whatever they could to be the first to report it hello

gorgeous how you doing gorgeous any thoughts about the image hold up

till I tell you okay hold up we going to go up right there L my battery pack is going

out all right guys you need to move you need to move they were so desperate for a story that sometimes the story was

that she was being swarmed by Paparazzi check out this video where they follow her to her girlfriend’s house at 6:00

a.m. and record them having an argument inside of their house so you been party all night ly going to St some right now

disgusting stop it mine driness

fing although it was her own behavior that was destroying her life we can all agree that having invasive Paparazzi

waiting outside of your house and filming your private conversations would drive anyone crazy they wanted to break

her down for their own benefit and that’s exactly what would happen in October of 2009 a Beverly Hills judge

extended her probation because Lohan had not been attending her required alcohol C counseling program on May 20th 2010

Lindsay who had attended the Cane’s film festival in France missed a required court appearance claiming she had lost

her passport although the judge issued an arrest warrant it was withdrawn after Lohan’s representative posted her

$100,000 bail the hearing was scheduled for July 6th where a judge ordered Lindsay to serve 90 days in jail for

missing Alcohol counseling sessions in violation of her probation Lohan also had to spend 90 days in a drug and

alcohol rehab program after her jail term ended the video of her receiving her sentence and breaking down went

viral 30 days in jail on the first DUI case consecutive and 30 days in jail on

the second um dii case consecutive that’s 90 days in

jail the court is also going to order Dr Sharma or appoint Dr Sharma and malinac

photos later surfaced of her in court with the words you painted on her fingernails on July 20th Lindsay began

her sentencing at the Lynnwood Correctional Facility but would be released after less than 2 weeks behind

bars her mug shot became an iconic pop culture moment as she would become the original mug shot shy she began her

court-ordered rehab only to be released after 23 days instead of the instructed 30 less than a month later Lindsay

revealed to her supporters on Twitter that she failed a recent drug test but was working hard to overcome her drug

addiction regrettably I did in fact fail my most recent drug test and if I am asked I am prepared to appear before

judge Fox next week as a result a probation report released later revealed that the drug test failure involved

cocaine and amphetamines Lohan returned to court on September 24th where the judge ordered the preliminary revocation

of her probation Lindsay seemed defeated as deputies cuffed her hands behind her back and walked her out of the Beverly

Hills courtroom she’d be thrown in jail again but was released that night after another judge overturn the decision and

granted a $300,000 bail are you noticing a pattern here less than a month later Lindsay reportedly visits the Kofi and

Company jewelry store where she walks out with a necklace valued at $2,500 around her neck before a store clerk

caus the police to report it missing upon investigation one of Lohan’s Associates hands the necklace to the

police resulting in Lindsay being charged with felony Grand Theft on April 22nd 2011 Lohan spent 5 hours in custody

before posting a $75,000 bail after being sentenced to 12 120 days in jail for violating her drunken driving

probation by being charged with theft she’s also ordered to to perform 480 hours of community service however her

theft charge is reduced to a misdemeanor I know I sound like a broken record and I could keep detailing her arrests

because there are so many more but most of them involve her violating her probation by failing drug tests or not

showing up to court hearings and then whenever she would eventually get to court she would get sentence and then

somehow magically bail herself out get out of doing jail time or get out of doing community service somehow rinse

and repeat that process multiple times times per year she lost her appeal to the public she was only 26 years old but

looked like she had aged a decade Lindsay claims that she kept gossip sites in business a little bit about me

I’m an actress a singer an entrepreneur and I have single-handedly kept 90% of all gossip websites and business but

really it was the other way around the only reason she maintained a presence in pop culture at this time was because her

never-ending criminal history was easy news coverage and her attempted return to the spotlight in 2012 just further

cemented that her career in Hollywood was finished Lohan hosted Saturday Night Live in March of 2012 for the second

time in her career throughout the episode she made several self-deprecating references to her personal troubles that makes people

laugh but it’s not like her performance was screaming a comeback was about to happen in 2012 lindsy starred as

Elizabeth Taylor in the biographical television film Liz and Dick during production paramedics were called to

Lohan’s hotel room where they treated her for exhaustion and dehydration the film premiered on the lifetime cable

channel in November 2012 while the premiere garnered 3.5 million views Lindsay’s performance as did the film

received largely negative reviews throughout 2013 she made forgettable appearances and throwaway projects like

Scary Movie 5 and the inappropriate comedy or she received lead roles in minor projects like the Thriller drama

film The Canyons unable to revive her Hollywood career Lindsay strategically created an eight-part docu series

Lindsay on Oprah Winfrey’s own cable network the show intended to provide an unfiltered look at Lindsay’s life as she

transitioned from rehab to her daily routines aiming for a fresh start it attempted to document her struggles to

stay sober reestablish her acting career and repair her Public Image and these types of programs usually work people

feel bad for celebrities as they discuss their deepest vulnerabilities on camera for Millions to criticize they’re so

brave for doing that people usually say but it didn’t work for Lindsay the ratings for this docu series dropped

substantially with each episode as variety described the series as boring claiming that Oprah and Lohan were using

each other for Content are you an addict yeah and what is it you are addicted

to what is what is your drug of choice or drugs of choice alcohol alcohol yeah

because that’s and that’s that in the past was a gateway to other things for me um other things I never abused I

tried cocaine with alcohol and i’ never when you were arrested the first time correct yeah POS I had since she was a

tabloid Queen for years nobody was interested in seeing her make a comeback aren’t you supposed to be in rehab

now do you not watch anything that goes on tabloid now now here’s what I I was

under the May 2nd yes and how long will you be in rehab uh 3 months how many

times have you been in rehab several and what what how will this time be different what are they rehabbing

first of all what what is on their list what what are they going to work on when you walk through the

door we didn’t discuss in the this in the pre- interview her career in Hollywood was officially over and the

tabloids only wanted to bring her down even more an Infamous sex list was leaked that featured 36 aist stars that

Lindsay Lohan allegedly hooked up with including Ashton Kutcher Wen Phoenix Justin Timberlake Adam Lavine and many

others Lindsay later admitted that the list was real that was actually my fifth step in AA at buy Ford and someone when

I was moving during the own show must have taken a photo of it and so that’s a really personal thing wow and that’s

it’s really unfortunate feeling absolutely defeated by the Hollywood hellscape Lindsay randomly moved to

Dubai for privacy and an attempt to rebuild her life Paparazzi is illegal in

Dubai so she doesn’t have to worry about getting followed by cameras Lindsay spent the next few years detached from

the spotlight focusing more on her Newfound religious views as she studied and considered conver refering to Islam

but even more rumors spurred that she was a high class escort and it didn’t help that in 2013 her own father was

quoted saying that she is getting paid to date rich men according to the reports these dates last for several

days and the men shower her with lavish gifts like jewelry since Lindsay was living in Dubai which is notorious for

yachting conspiracies where women subject themselves to disgusting sex acts for insanely wealthy men plus being

photographed cozied up with much older men along with her failed career and bottomless legal expenses and potential

drug habit gossip sites were convinced that she was a high class hooker and that’s how she maybe maintained her

lifestyle but disappearing to Dubai worked nobody was talking about Lindsay anymore nobody was harassing her it was

now 2017 over 10 years since Mean Girls and we had witnessed countless child stars rise and fall she started

appearing in the news again around 2017 and 2018 but only for extremely strange

controversies like in February of 2017 when airport security asked her to take off her headscarf while going through

security to which she claimed to have been racially profiled she said I was flying to New York recently I was

wearing a headscarf and I got stopped and racially profiled for the first time in my life obviously people ran with the

narrative that a privileged White actress claimed to be racially profiled but to give her the benefit of the doubt

she was trying to say that she has a deeper understanding of Arab women who are judged or unfairly profiled for

their culture she she just kind of chose her words wrong she also gained a lot of media attention for her fake accent you

know you understand the Muslim Islamic culture you understand that life is bigger than everything that we see

Americans are very close-minded in that sense this is just me holding it with me walking going whereas the paparazzi

maybe across the street I didn’t know and they crucified me for it in America they made me seem like Satan While most

people were making fun of her for being cringe or accusing her of cultural appropriation psychologists say

otherwise she is making herself as the person with whom she is speaking with kesa said why do we do it liking is not

the only goal mimicry imitating behavior is described as unconscious tendency to

create bonds with others a social glue which bonds us to other people it seems it is imprinted in our nature Lindsay

garnered even more negative attention in October 2017 when she publicly defended former film producer Harvey Weinstein

amid his me too allegations hi this is Lindsay Len uh

hi I’m in Dubai I’m home uh and I feel very bad for Harvey wh team right now I

don’t think it’s right what’s going on uh I think Georgina needs to take a stand and be there for her husband and

he’s never harmed me or done anything wrong to me and we’ve done several movies together and so I think everyone

needs to stop I think it’s wrong so stand up you know when a drunk Lindsay Lohan is defending you you’ve hit rock

bottom someone tell her he’s not a producer anymore he can’t give her a job but then something even weirder happened

when she went live on Instagram and tried to steal a homeless woman’s children after they refused her help so

I want you to tell America what you need and I will get it for

you and I she then proceeds to demand that the children come with her and sleep in her

hotel with them for the evening you called you want to come with me come

with me come come I’ll take care let me take

care of you guys do you want to stay in a hotel tonight do you want to watch

movies yeah yni let me take him for the night let him stay for the

night one night for about 5 minutes straight she tries to convince this mother to release

her kids to lowan but the mother refuses so Lindsay begins to start shaming the mother and you should be doing what you

do for your children so they have a better life eventually the family begins to get up and Lindsay attempts to

forcibly grab the children after they refuse and walk away she proceeds to follow them and labels them Syrian

refugees who are trafficking children are you excited let’s go Hy wait no

no shoes first let’s go get up what are you doing

get up guys you’re going the wrong way my car’s here come look what’s happening

they’re trafficking children I won’t leave until I take

you now I know who you are this is not

Arab you’re ruining Arab culture by doing this you’re taking these children they

want to go I’m love you I’m with you I’m with you boys don’t worry

the whole world is seeing this right now I guess it seems like her heart was in the right place but it’s odd that she

would assume a mother would just give her children up to a stranger and while most people expected Lindsay to just

fade into her relevance live her life in the Middle East and only pop up when she has random strange controversies she

actually made an unexpected comeback MTV gave her a reality show because their network was on the brink of shutting

down and they were grasping at straws trying to get views Lindsay lohans beat Beach Club focuses on Lindsay as she

manages her new beach club in monono Greece and follows the lives of the staff hired to work there during the

filming of this show she went viral for her dancing on stage at a bar which became a trend on social media coin the

#d do the Lelo challenge this was the most positive press she received in years she also became a panelist on the

Australian edition of The Masked Singer Lohan was slowly introducing herself back into the mainstream media and

seemed much healthier than she had been in the past couple of years she got a huge lucky break when the biggest

Network in present day media Netflix approached her to star in one of the Studio’s annual Hallmark Christmas films

in May of 2021 Netflix announced Lindsay’s major return to acting by starring in a Christmas romantic comedy

about a spoiled ays who loses her memory following a skiing incident she spends the holidays cared for by a down on his

luck widower and his daughter falling for Christmas was Lindsay’s First Time starring in a lead role for a major

production in several years for the first time in a long time Lohan appeared in a magazine not to discuss her

Troublesome past but to promote a film she felt passionate about helping create rolling stone called Falling for

Christmas a formulaic film that reminds audiences what made Lohan a movie star in the first place after the release the

filmmakers talked about working with Lohan saying she’s such an amazing actress and comedian and it was really

fun working with her she’s really prepared and very professional along with Landing a number of magazine covers

in March of 2022 Lohan reportedly signed a deal to star in two more films for Netflix that same month Lindsay

announced her pregnancy in an Instagram post with the caption we are blessed and excited Lindsay and her husband welcomed

their son in July of 2023 the first film of Lohan’s two picture deal with Netflix was the romantic comedy Irish wish where

the director also spoke highly of her work ethic she’s very involved in the story and is really communicative she’s

really easy to work with that way she seems to be taking her comeback seriously this time and putting in the work to repair her reputation Lohan’s

second upcoming film with Netflix little secret is scheduled to release for the holidays of 2024 while Disney pictures

announced a sequel for Freaky Friday where Lohan and jam Lee Curtis would reprise their roles from the 2003 film

despite the complications with her family including briefly cutting contact with her father Lindsay revealed that

she’s on good terms with both of her parents and in July of 2023 the family gathered for the first time in the last

7 years in the past few years people have become more empathetic in understanding of how unfairly treated

child stars were at one point they were making headlines and being crucified for stupid mistakes that any teenager would

make in Lindsay’s case she was thrown into acting at age three raised by an extremely complicated family with a

father who was constantly in and out of jail and allegedly abusive compound that with the insane Paparazzi following her

everywhere prying at her hoping for a single slip up it will drive anyone mad and it’s clear that all of that led to

her addiction which took a huge toll on her life an addiction is a complicated disease a disease that many people pass

judgement onto others but it takes a lifetime to fight now as far as her relationship with the Saudi Crown Prince

and what was going on in the Middle East who knows but we can only hope that her intentions were genuine and be grateful

that she seems to be happy healthy and back on the right track