Lohan gets 90 days in jail(Link)


Lindsay Lohan tearfully begged the judge
for forgiveness.

Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after a Beverly Hills judge ruled that she had violated her probation by missing a string of alcohol education classes imposed for a 2007 drink-driving arrest.

Beverly Hills Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel ordered the Mean Girls movie star to report for jail on July 20.

She also ordered Lohan to attend a 90-day residential substance abuse program once she had completed her sentence.

Lohan, 24, sobbed bitterly on hearing the sentence.

Earlier she had tearfully begged the judge for forgiveness, saying she was taking her alcohol education classes seriously.

"I am not taking this as a joke. This is my life. It is my career. It is something I have worked for all my life," Lohan said.

"I did the best I could to balance jobs and showing up.

"I was working ... I was working with children. I wasn't taking it as a joke ... I wanted to come back and make you happy."

The court heard that Lohan had missed seven alcohol education classes over a period of 27 weeks and had not attended once a week, as instructed by the judge.

"I couldn't have been more clear - and it wasn't done," said Judge Revel before sentencing.

The hearing stemmed from a 2007 drink-driving and cocaine arrest. Lohan spent 84 minutes in jail that year as part of her sentence and was given three years probation.

Lohan found fame as an 11-year-old in The Parent Trap and was considered one of Hollywood's most talented young actresses. But in recent years, her hard-partying ways have proved steady fodder for celebrity gossip sites.

Her career - at its height during 2003 and 2004 when movies Freaky Friday and Mean Girls were released - has gone rapidly downhill.

- Reuters

I still think she's hot.

/shrug

Lindsay Lohan's close friends are concerned that LiLo won't survive a single day in jail without the one thing she can't live without ... cigarettes.

As TMZ previously reported, the jail where Lindsay is extremely likely to do time is the same all-female facility where Paris got locked up in 2007 -- the same place with a serious zero tolerance no-smoking policy.

Bad news for Lindsay -- because according to one of her close friends, the jail-bound actress is a "serious chain-smoker" who blows through at least two packs a day. We're told, "The first thing she does when she wakes up is light a cigarette."

The source adds, "I'm honestly scared for [Lindsay] ... I don't think she's gone a day without smoking in years. This isn't something she can stop overnight. It's a serious condition."

But here's the upside ... if Lindsay does head to Lynwood on July 20 -- and chances are she will -- it could be exactly what she needs to kick her nasty habits ... or at least one of them.

I agree, it's stupid to want such negative things to happen to her just because she's a celeb and to be so childishly giddy when she (or anyone else) gets arrested. Should she be punished? Absolutely. But if you were in her place, wouldn't you want to get off with a slap on the wrist as well? If this was a friend of yours who obviously had a problem, would you say "fuck that asshole!" or would you want him to get help and get his shit straightened out once and for all?

Should she be punished? Absolutely. But if you were in her place, wouldn't you want to get off with a slap on the wrist as well?