Lindsay is out after Rehabilitation

Lindsay Lohan, the ‘Mean Girls’ star who was undergoing exclusive detoxification since August has reportedly checked out of the Cirque Lodge Treatment Centre in Utah on Friday.

Her father, Michael Lohan, was seen carrying her suitcases as she left the clinic. "I will be there in her life as best I can but from here on she's going to have a lot of decisions to make on her own," he said. "Now that she is going out into the world, I can only hope for the best."

A source revealed that she had extended her stay at least once, and may return for outpatient treatment.

Lindsay's mother, Dina said she was proud of her daughter. "She's moving ahead with her life. Things were getting out of control. She took action. She took responsibility. She really needed to heal."

Rehabilitation of the actress also involved a reunion with her estranged father. Lindsay, who had been at odds with her father, was due to spend five days with him at a remote lodge in the Utah Mountains as part of her recovery.

The Dad-daughter had reportedly met twice while LiLo was at the Utah center, during her third stint of rehab this year. In early September, People’s magazine reported that the actress had recently seen her dad for the first time since he was released from prison in March.

Only two weeks after leaving a rehab centre, the 21-year-old actress was arrested on July 24 this year for drunken driving and suspicion of drug possession following a wild car chase through Santa Monica, Calif.

She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to one day in jail; 10 hours of community work and to complete a drug-treatment program. LiLo, on probation for 36 months, is required to complete an 18-month alcohol-education program.

She has also been fined hundreds of dollars in fines and has been ordered to visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers. She will not have to stand trial.

Resuming work, the actress is to start filming ‘Dare to Love Me’ in Los Angeles on Oct. 15.

"Lindsay will start her life over," said a source. "She's gotten rid of the people around her who were bad influences."

Lindsay took tango lessons in rehab

Lohan began learning the dance form before checking into the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah in July this year.


Actress Lindsay Lohan was kept on her toes during her stint in rehab - for the actress learnt the tango dance there.

Lohan began learning the dance form before checking into the Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah in July this year.

The 21-year-old star’s stint in rehab, however, did not come in the way of her dance classes, for her Los Angeles-based dance teacher, Gloria Otero regularly flew in to teach her.

Otero revealed that he visited the rehab facility every weekend to teach ‘the Mean Girls’ star how to tango and has admitted that she has become a great dancer.

"I have been going to Utah for the past three weeks. We practice on Fridays and Saturdays. It's been really good working with her... She has become a great dancer," Contactmusic quoted Otero, as telling In Touch Weekly magazine.

Lindsay Lohan Claims She's Innocent

In a July 24 e-mail to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush, the 21-year-old actress wrote "I am innocent...did not do drugs they're not mine. I was almost hit by my assistant Taryn's mom I appreciate everyone giving me my privacy."

Lohan was arrested and released on bail early that morning in Santa Monica for driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license, and felony cocaine possession. The arrest occurred less than two weeks after she completed her second stint at a rehab facility.

Police found cocaine in one of Lohan's pockets during a pre-booking search, according to Sgt. Shane Talbot. Police initially said Lohan was being booked for transportation of a narcotic, but later said she was not.

Authorities received a 911 emergency call from the mother of Lohan's former personal assistant saying that Lohan was chasing her in a sport utility vehicle.

The assistant had reportedly quit hours before. Lohan still faces charges of driving under the influence, stemming from a May hit-and-run crash in Beverly Hills.

Her attorney, Blair Berk, said she was wearing an alcohol-detecting ankle bracelet since her July 13 from a rehab facility, and received daily sobriety tests. She said Lohan had relapsed and was receiving medical care at an undisclosed location. Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, had no comment.

People: Britney Spears, Riyo Mori, Lindsay Lohan

Britney Spears says she "truly hit rock bottom" during a stint in rehabilitation this year but told fans she did not blame her behavior on alcohol or depression. "I was like a bad kid running around with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder)," she wrote on her Web site, www.britneyspears.com. "I confess, I was so lost." Earlier this year, Spears, 25, split from her second husband, the aspiring rapper Kevin Federline, with whom she has two children. She is now trying to stage a comeback, performing for the first time in more than three years this month with a series of 15-minute nightclub shows and reportedly working on her fifth album. Spears said she hoped her letter would make people "think a little bit more of me and where I am coming from." (Reuters)

Riyo Mori, a 20-year-old dancer from Japan, was crowned Miss Universe 2007 this week in Mexico City, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title. Dressed in a black, red and purple Japanese-style gown, Mori beat out the first runner-up, Natália Guimarães of Brazil, to don a diamond-and-pearl-studded headpiece valued at $250,000. The last time Japan won the pageant was in 1959 when Akiko Kojima became the first Miss Universe from Asia. Also finishing in the top five were Ly Jonaitis of Venezuela, Honey Lee of Korea and Rachel Smith of the United States. (AP)

Also at the Miss Universe pageant, Miss Kazakhstan, Gauhkar Rakhmetalieva, said her country was preparing its own movie in response to "Borat," the hit comedy starring Sacha Baron Cohen that portrayed the Central Asian nation as bigoted and backward. Rakhmetalieva said her government is filming the movie to show the nation's positive sides. But she said "Borat" brought much-needed publicity to Kazakhstan and there should be no hard feelings. "In the end we have to understand that it was only a joke," she said. "The advantage is that now our country is world famous." (AP)

Lindsay Lohan has returned to rehab after a weekend drunken-driving arrest, her publicist said, raising questions about whether she can start shooting her latest film. The entertainment trade paper Daily Variety reported this week that Lohan had just joined the cast of "Poor Things," a comedy starring Shirley MacLaine set to begin filming this week. The publicist wouldn't provide details, but several celebrity news outlets, including TMZ.com and Us Weekly magazine online, said Lohan checked in to the Promises treatment center in Malibu, California, the luxury facility where Britney Spears was recently a patient. Lohan, 20, underwent a stint in rehab earlier this year. (Reuters)

For "Mike Wallace: Some of My Favorite Stories," a retrospective to be broadcast this weekend on CBS, this (mostly) retired "60 Minutes" correspondent wanted to make news. And so on Friday Wallace plans to be in Coldwater, Michigan, to nab the first interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian after he is paroled from a federal prison. Kevorkian, the advocate for assisted suicide who has served eight years for second-degree murder, was the subject of a piece by Wallace on "60 Minutes" in 1998. In that segment Kevorkian could be seen administering the lethal injection that resulted in the charges against him. That Wallace, 89, has not lost his zest for a big "get" was obvious in a phone interview this week, as he described securing the Kevorkian meeting through an intermediary and then plotting how to outwit others seeking the same interview. In the special Wallace will also be seen conducting a new interview with Vanessa Redgrave, whom he profiled on "60 Minutes" in 1979.

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