Lindsay Lohan Opens Up On Drug & Alcohol Addiction

"Partying so hard simply isn't worth it. Life is worth living and there is so much to do and experience, it's wonderful." - Lindsay Lohan

Dubbed as "Hollywood's Wild Child" Lindsay Lohan is no doubt one of the most controversial actress of her generation. Barely 23 years old, her life has already been well-documented through the eyes of the scrutinizing media which particularly follows her family troubles, drug and alcohol addiction, wild partying, and bisexual love affair with Samantha Ronson.

The world sighed at the fate of this once adorable child star who grow up to become one of the most beautiful actress in Hollywood. If not for her drug and alcohol addiction, career might have become brighter for her.

Lindsay Lohan recently did an interview with The Sun. If this wild child is indeed telling the truth, redemption has finally come for her. Who knows if she will rise up to become one of Hollywood's greatest actress in say, 10 years? After all, she's barely 23...


"When my father was going public, that's when I hit rock bottom. I abused substances too much and it wasn't the answer to my problems. People need to know that. I tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine and mind-altering substances. Now I'm in a place where I don't need to use anything and I can feel emotions because I choose to. I learnt from my mistakes and I'm now healthy and happier. I never want to be close to losing everything I worked for and aspired to have my whole life. Mind-altering substances are so dangerous. If I can teach others, especially teens, by sharing my experiences, then that's what I will continue to do. I've made some dreadful mistakes but learned from them - that has probably saved my life."


"I went to rehab three times. The first time I checked myself in because I had taken Ambien. It's a sleeping aid but it makes you hallucinate. I'd run a bath and fallen asleep on the floor and the bath had overflowed. When I woke up I was so scared, I called my therapist and said, 'Can I just go somewhere for a month? I'm around bad people and I need to take care of myself'. I was terrified, so I put myself in. There was a point when I didn't know how to say 'No' and I was trying to please everyone. I was doing pop and making films. I was young and thought I could go out, have fun, then go on set and record. I ran myself down and I lost track of who I was."

Lindsay Lohan has pleaded guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence in 2007. She has been jailed for a day and has been ordered to complete an alcohol education program.

Now, Lindsay Lohan still booze but she says it's not for masking troubles anymore but for "social obligations." She has recently hosted a Haiti fundraiser event in London.

"I'm allowed to drink now but I know my limits. There are certain situations where I have obligations. There's no reason to (drink) because I don't want to feel like s*it in the morning. The thing is, at the times I was going out a lot and being seen everywhere, I would have been in college. My brother, who is 18, and his friends go out to bars and stuff till whatever time. That's what you do in college. Mine was all in the public eye so it was magnified that much more.

"I've now learned my boundaries and I've been very good with cleaning house with people who I know didn't have my best intentions at heart. A lot of people in LA are very self destructive.

"Partying so hard simply isn't worth it. Life is worth living and there is so much to do and experience, it's wonderful."

Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato Interns At Teen Vogue

Teen actor Mark Indelicato from the Ugly Betty series will intern at Teen Vogue after his TV gig ends this spring.


Life is imitating art for this fabulous 15-year-old actor as he brings the Ugly Betty scene into the real-life world of fashion. The TV series which stars America Fererra focuses on the lives of employees at the fictional fashion magazine Mode.

Mark Delicato says he would love the camera follow his life as an intern at the teen fashion magazine.

"I want to have a reality show about it. My boss said he's determined to make me cry. He said it makes good TV."

When Ugly Betty wraps up its fourth and final season this spring, the teen actor's internship at Teen Vogue will be his new spring gig.

Although he will miss his co-stars from the comedy series, the teen actor looks up to the future full of optimism.

"I think we'll all go to bigger and better things, and it'll be perfect — everything is going to be fabulous."

Mark Indelicato is a native of Philadelphia. He is of Puerto Rican and Italian ancestry. He plays one of the three regulars on Ugly Betty with Philadelphia ties along with Ana Ortiz who plays his mother Hilda and Becki Newton, the receptionist at Mode.

Aside from being a TV actor, Mark Delicato is also a student at New York's prestigious Professional Performing Arts School.

Miley Cyrus Grows Up In "The Last Song"

Miley Cyrus, today's premiere teenage pop icon, will be saying goodbye to her adolescence image anytime soon.

In the upcoming film "The Last Song," the 16 year-old Disney superstar (who will be celebrating her 17th birthday next week) will do serious acting.


"The Last Song" portrays Miley Cyrus as the 17 year-old daughter of divorced parents who is sent to spend the summer at her father's beach house. She is a gifted pianist like her dad, but she doubts following in his footsteps. Not much of a grown-up role, really, but it will be the teen star's first movie to get a PG rating (except, of course, for her cameo in R-rated "Sex and the City 2").

With $1 billion talent fee for the "Hannah Montana" franchise, Miley Cyrus is no doubt the highest paid teenager in Hollywood. And that is because she plays the adolescent Disney star.

But with the coming of "The Last Song" in April 2010, Miley Cyrus enters into professional adulthood. How would the audiences respond to her grown-up role?

We'll learn more of that in 2010. Today, we can watch "The Last Song" official trailer:

Twilight's Christian Serratos For PETA

Nineteen year-old Twilight star Christian Serratos is the newest celebrity to strip for PETA's naked, err, Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur campaign. To date, she is the youngest vegetarian celebrity to pose nude for PETA in its opposition to the fur industry.


Like a scene from The Twilight Saga, Christian Serratos' naked pictorial takes place in what appears to be a dark, misty forest. There's blood on the ground where she stood and on the base of the tree that she was leaning on.

"I've always been opposed to slaughtering, eating, wearing carcass," says the teen star.

Christian Serratos now joins the likes of Charlize Theron and Eva Mendes in the campaign against using animals for fur. Like them, her ad for PETA is a steamy one. If it's not for the bold texts and the Twilight theme, one would think it's a teaser for an erotic film.

Good thing Twilight has its power over tweens. PETA might soon influence many young people by incorporating Twilight in its campaigns.

Miley Cyrus Vs Taylor Lautner: Double Standard For Teen Stars?

Does Hollywood have a double standard for its shirtless teenage stars?


When Miley Cyrus posed in Vanity Fair last year, wearing but a wrap of sheet and exposing her right shoulder and the top of her back, the negative reaction was overwhelming. Critics said the 15 year-old actress and her nude-implied photo is "sexualization of a child to sell magazines."

The call to reprimand the teen star was intense enough for her to eventually make a public apology statement saying, "I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone." This was despite how she expressed earlier liking to the photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz.

Now, with the New Moon movie coming to theatres in a month, there's the 17 year-old Taylor Lautner and his shirtless body blanketing the magazines, websites, and TV for the promotion of the Twilight sequel. Just like Miley Cyrus, Taylor Hautner is also a minor - a child. Unlike his fellow teen star, however, images of his shirtless body not only appeared on one magazine but on countless mass media. And unlike Miley Cyrus, no one called the shirtless photos of this teen male star scandalous.

And so Lindsay Robertson asks on Yahoo Movie Talk colum, "Does Hollywood have a double standard for shirtless teenage stars?"

Taylor Lautner trained for months to get the fit and toned body that New Moon has been showing off. But for all the shirtless images of him in circulation, there's only one major voice to raise questions about his photos. His New Moon co-star Kristin Davis says, "I feel protective, like what is he doing without his shirt on? And then I hear he's dating people, and I'm like, 'Ahh!'"


Good or bad for the young Taylor Hautner, no one is seeing his shirtless images as sexualization of a child to sell a movie. And while there's no big critic to his provocative photos, he could only hope that he never has to take his shirt off in a movie again:

"It's so uncomfortable knowing that so many people are seeing pictures of me shirtless... It's weird. It's kind of embarrassing."