Dina Lohan: Don't call me a 'party mom'
Actress Lindsay Lohan poses with her mother Dina, right, after they arrived to the premiere of a new film in this file photo from May 9, 2006, in Los Angeles. [AP]
Dina Lohan says her daughter Lindsay isn't an alcoholic and that people are wrong to assume that she's a club-hopping "party mom." "Oh, the party mom, the party mom, the party mom!" Lohan says. "Whoever said that, my ex-husband or whatever, I'm not the party mom!"
"Listen to me: Lindsay would drag me, literally drag my loser butt (to a club) and say, `I need you to know who these people are,'" Lohan, 44, says in an interview in the April issue of Harper's Bazaar, on newsstands Tuesday. "Yeah, she trusts my judgment. She's in such a whirlwind; she's in a tornado. I mean, we're talking serious earthquake, you know?"
The 20-year-old actress/tabloid target checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles in January. Her publicist, Leslie Sloane, declined comment to The Associated Press on Thursday when asked for details. Sloane had confirmed in December that Lohan was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
Lohan says her daughter isn't an alcoholic. "Noooo! She is just a 20-year-old who had to reel it in. And she's from an addictive personality genetically," she tells the magazine.
"Lindsay had to fall and get up," she says. "I knew it was coming. I told her, but finally she was like, `Mommy, I had to do it myself.'"
Lohan also talks about another member of the young Hollywood set, 25-year-old pop star Britney Spears, who embarked on a bout of bizarre behavior after filing for divorce from Kevin Federline in November. Spears recently completed a stint in rehab.
"Cut her some slack," Lohan says.
