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How did Lindsay Lohan turn her life around?

What did the trick, and why has she been able to turn it around while Britney still struggles?

by Anonymousreply 77August 11, 2025 4:10 PM

She got sober and doesn’t have severe mental illness like Brittney Spears?

by Anonymousreply 1August 4, 2025 12:36 AM

Lindsay was just a party girl. Britney was a party girl who managed to trigger her latent bipolar disorder while partying.

Lindsay got her shit together after a respite in Europe & the Middle East. Britney's done little but prove why she *should* still be actively monitored.

by Anonymousreply 2August 4, 2025 12:37 AM

What r1 said. What the Free Britney movement never understood is that Britney Spears has a severe mental illness. No judge is going to grant a conservatorship if it's not seriously warranted. Maybe people were enriching themselves at her expense, but it doesn't change the fact that she can't take care of herself.

I think Lindsay Lohan had major problems, too, but she dried out and got lucky that someone halfway decent decided to marry her. Whatever the situation is, it's more stable than what she had before.

by Anonymousreply 3August 4, 2025 12:39 AM

Lindsay Lohan IS Anora.

by Anonymousreply 4August 4, 2025 12:40 AM

She probably got sick of living that life. It’s exhausting.

by Anonymousreply 5August 4, 2025 12:43 AM

Lindsay may have gained the addiction/alcoholism gene from one or both parents, but it seems like she's worked out what works for her. Perhaps she's sober now.

I can attest that active alcoholism IS fucking exhausting as hell. I stopped drinking right at the beginning of January after about 10 months of nonstop drinking and the amount of energy I expended on obtaining, drinking and maintaining an "adequate" alcohol level/supply was unbelievable. Not to mention getting rid of all the empties.

Fuck that bullshit. And maybe Lindsay decided to fuck that bullshit as well (if she was dealing with addiction). Whatever she did, I'm happy for her and wish her continued success, happiness and good health.

by Anonymousreply 6August 4, 2025 1:22 AM

[quote]Not to mention getting rid of all the empties.

Ah yes, r6.

by Anonymousreply 7August 4, 2025 1:25 AM

Making bank on commercials, the tea spot and Verizon

by Anonymousreply 8August 8, 2025 2:10 AM

She didn’t.

by Anonymousreply 9August 8, 2025 2:15 AM

I think James Deen fucked the crazy right out of her.

by Anonymousreply 10August 8, 2025 2:18 AM

I wonder if she is truly sober when she is away from her husband. People live many lives. I hope she has everything manageable, whatever she is doing (or not doing). And I wouldn't bet she doesn't have a form of bipolar as well.

by Anonymousreply 11August 8, 2025 2:18 AM

[quote] I think James Deen fucked the crazy right out of her.

Actually, it was Nolan Funk.

by Anonymousreply 12August 8, 2025 4:33 AM

"While BPD is a lifelong condition, its symptoms generally improve with age, particularly in women, with many experiencing significant remission by their late 30s and 40s."

Genuinely happy that she made it to the other side.

by Anonymousreply 13August 8, 2025 6:41 AM

She said in an interview that she had finally learned to say “No.” Presumably to Dina, among others.

by Anonymousreply 14August 8, 2025 7:00 AM

I saw her in something recently and she looked and sounded healthy. She'd lost that raspy 5 pack a day voice she had for awhile.

by Anonymousreply 15August 8, 2025 9:00 AM

I dunno how she did it but she deserved a standing ovation.

by Anonymousreply 16August 8, 2025 12:35 PM

Her decision to leave Hollywood was a sound and smart one.

Too bad Britney is non compos mentis to make that decision as well. She's such a dyed-in-the-wool attention whore (crazy or not) that it would never happen. She's going to be doing Instagram videos from her wheelchair when she finally breaks a hip.

by Anonymousreply 17August 8, 2025 1:15 PM

She must have a solid agent and manager to advise and guide her.

by Anonymousreply 18August 8, 2025 1:46 PM

Yours were empty R6? Look at fancypants over here… mine are all filled with piss

by Anonymousreply 19August 8, 2025 2:27 PM

Getting a facelift certainly helped get rid of the damage drugs/drinking/smoking from her youth did.

by Anonymousreply 20August 8, 2025 4:14 PM

Maybe Lindsey wasn’t being fingered by tv execs at 12.

by Anonymousreply 21August 8, 2025 4:52 PM

Oh, I think she was. Very few escape that fate.

by Anonymousreply 22August 8, 2025 8:52 PM

Lindsay fled Hollywood, she didn't decide to leave. She was hooking out of the Chateau Marmont and owed huge bills, she was stealing from stores and movie sets. Just a total mess.

I believe when she left she got into the international prostitution trade. She was based in Greece, showed up in Dubai and Russia on social media. She even had a short-lived reality show about some nightclub she owned in Mykonos. She was still a mess when that was in production and the reason the show ended abruptly.

Anyhow, she had a very chaotic young life. I wish her peace and prosperity. Everyone deserves a new start.

by Anonymousreply 23August 8, 2025 8:58 PM

Holy shit r23, I didn't know any of that.

by Anonymousreply 24August 8, 2025 9:11 PM

They're two different people. Both have fucked up families. Lindsey was a hot mess for a minute but seems to have stabilized into adulthood. Brit is on borrowed time unfortunately.

by Anonymousreply 25August 8, 2025 9:19 PM

Brut made a ton more money that Lindsey, so the machine, with no vested interest in her changing, propping her up was more powerful. At this point unfortunately in her case a dead artist is more profitable than a living one. So I’m not sure, like Whitney, if she’ll make it out of her 40s.

by Anonymousreply 26August 9, 2025 1:09 PM

Lindsay said she went to Dubai because it was peaceful and there were no paparazzi.

Lindsay’s parents have issues, but they’re basically classy, decent people.

by Anonymousreply 27August 9, 2025 1:13 PM

I don't know OP but Lindsay has definitely turned her life around and I respect that immensely. She looks amazing, she's very likable and she's got a great future. She will never be an A-list star - but she's going to be just fine.

by Anonymousreply 28August 9, 2025 1:14 PM

What happened to her sister who got prostituted in Korea by Dina?

by Anonymousreply 29August 9, 2025 1:45 PM

Why did I read this as “How did Lindsey Graham turn her life around?”

by Anonymousreply 30August 9, 2025 1:45 PM

I like Lindsay but she was a slob. I forgot what I was watching a long time ago and her house was full of shit and a total mess. I hope she's not like that anymore.

by Anonymousreply 31August 9, 2025 2:17 PM

Britney is so stupid it's mesmerizing to watch. How can someone be that stupid and famous?

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by Anonymousreply 32August 9, 2025 2:27 PM

R27 - classy??

Did you *see* "Living Lohan"?

by Anonymousreply 33August 9, 2025 2:57 PM

She finally watched “The First Wives Club” and thought she was Elise.

“But NO!”, said the Gin, “You’re Cynthia!”

And then she settled down to a diet of weed.

by Anonymousreply 34August 9, 2025 3:11 PM

She worked as a madame providing girls for Arab millionaires for about a decade. Made a lot of cash.

by Anonymousreply 35August 9, 2025 4:53 PM

Honestly - I think once she got pregnant, shit got serious. Not wanting to harm your baby and the hormones kicking in can really give your life some purpose.

That's what I think - and, I find her likable in this commercials. Her spark is back.

Britney's mental illness is a chicken or the egg type of thing - having no control over your own life for 13 years and having your family and attorneys take your money and keep you monitored and drugged up every day has to take its toll.

I think Britney's mental issues were treatable 15 years ago - but too much damage has been done. Too much distrustful behavior by everyone around her. She had her kids taken from her too.

Britney is a shell of a person. Lindsey was an addict who cleaned up her act for her kid. Also, her facelift is up there as one of the best procedures we've seen. She looks great.

by Anonymousreply 36August 9, 2025 5:02 PM

[QUOTE]Maybe Lindsey wasn’t being fingered by tv execs at 12.

Not TV executives. Wasn't she almost exclusively in films before the implosion?

[QUOTE]she was stealing from stores and movie sets

I didn't realize she was this bad.

[QUOTE]Lindsay’s parents have issues, but they’re basically classy, decent people.

Where did you get this idea, r27?

by Anonymousreply 37August 9, 2025 5:06 PM

It's kind of crazy that her comeback started with that Netflix Christmas movie - which got huge viewership. Then she got a 2 movie deal with Netflix.

And now she's known as stable and reliable - so she's back.

She has a certain charm and charisma, that you just root for her.

by Anonymousreply 38August 9, 2025 5:14 PM

JLC must have been thrilled to have sober Lohan around so she could have someone around on set she could lecture and pretend to he her AA sponsor.

by Anonymousreply 39August 9, 2025 5:46 PM

[quote]Getting a facelift certainly helped get rid of the damage drugs/drinking/smoking from her youth did

Before & after

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by Anonymousreply 40August 9, 2025 6:07 PM

She's in Dubai. They have a lot of skincare treatments out there.

by Anonymousreply 41August 9, 2025 11:07 PM

Never understood why people thought she was some great beauty. A good actress but trashy fake suntanned look.

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by Anonymousreply 42August 9, 2025 11:11 PM

[quote] Lindsay’s parents have issues, but they’re basically classy, decent people.

Klassy with a capital K.

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by Anonymousreply 43August 10, 2025 4:30 AM

I think her main problem was just a serious lack of professionalism mixed with flakiness. She just had to convince enough important people that she had changed and now she's back. We'll probably see her in many other projects.

by Anonymousreply 44August 10, 2025 5:04 AM

Within a year she'll be Dead to Me. (I'm thinking about Carrie Fisher),

by Anonymousreply 45August 10, 2025 6:59 AM

Brittney has severe mental illness , never properly treated . Given she was molested many ways during her very young years , she didn’t stand a fucking chance . Awful men using her. Makes me really sad . If a regular person had been dealt that same mental illness gene he/she would have a fighting chance . Britney was just an ATM to everyone including her family

by Anonymousreply 46August 10, 2025 10:49 AM

Did Lindsay also get vaginal rejuvenation with the new face?

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by Anonymousreply 47August 10, 2025 1:51 PM

R46 - I don't believe it was genetics - I think she was manipulated and controlled so much - AND drugged up - that she lost her mind.

You can lose your mental faculties from stress and being in conditions beyond your control.

She may have been prone to it - but I fully believe her mental health is 100% caused by decades of manipulation, lies, taking away her ability to do anything as an adult, and drugging her non-stop. Meanwhile they gaslit her about everything - including the need for a conservator, which she could have asked to be removed at any time.

It's really one of the biggest tragedies in Hollywood history.

by Anonymousreply 48August 10, 2025 1:53 PM

Lindsay's life seemed to turn around when she almost "accidentally" lost a finger on a boating trip with the son of a Russian oligarch to whom she was engaged. Whoever said she was the true Anora upthread was right, except in this case, the family held her hand to a boat propeller to convince her to ditch the son.

She disappeared for a while and now she is back as she is today. My tinfoil hat theory is her current husband views her as an investment of sorts and makes sure she stays on the straight and narrow. She's clean because he makes sure she never has access to anything that could throw her off course.

by Anonymousreply 49August 10, 2025 2:08 PM

R49 - I do believe her husband helps keep her on a straight line - but I also think you outgrow some of those party behaviors.

And having a kid will snap you out of that shit real fast - infants and toddlers require full-time attention. You just cannot be hungover or hanging out all night without feeling huge guilt pangs and knowing that you're neglecting your kid.

She's now pushing the celeb mom thing - she mentions being a mom in some of her commercials.

I really have nothing against her - despite her being a little bitch in her early 20s. I like her - despite everything.

by Anonymousreply 50August 10, 2025 2:37 PM

Lindsay was a hot girl whose parents turned her out to older men, and she fell victim to the excesses of youth, money, and being pretty. Once she was run through and used up, she took some time to get her shit together, and through the grace of Hollywood loving a second act, she has been allowed to return—refreshed and rejuvenated.

Lindsay was a victim of bad parenting.

by Anonymousreply 51August 10, 2025 2:44 PM

Lohan is rumored to have been difficult during the Freakier Friday press tour and the studio was not happy.

by Anonymousreply 52August 10, 2025 3:16 PM

yeah? difficult how?

by Anonymousreply 53August 10, 2025 3:28 PM

Was it during her porta potty years in Dubai?

by Anonymousreply 54August 10, 2025 3:44 PM

R2 "Lindsay got her shit together after a respite in Europe & the Middle East."

She ATE shit in the Middle-East for dollar!

by Anonymousreply 55August 10, 2025 3:54 PM

Britney has more than Bipolar. She has schizophrenia or another more serious mental illness.

by Anonymousreply 56August 10, 2025 3:58 PM

How the fuck do you know? You her doctor??

by Anonymousreply 57August 10, 2025 3:59 PM

I think all the legal problems problems probably helped her. Six arrests, time in jail, wearing an ankle bracelet, having to report to a probation officer, not being able to drive or travel. She probably realized she was never going to have a normal life unless she gave up the booze and drugs.

by Anonymousreply 58August 10, 2025 4:01 PM

r57 I'm not r56, but if you've spent ANY time looking at her Instagram - both the videos she posts as well as the shit she writes - you realize she's got some real problems going on mentally. It's NOT being molested or abused while she was a child star. She has a very hefty family history of mental illness, schizophrenia, suicide, etc.

She dances around with knives, talks in stupid accents, sets her house on fire "accidentally" over and over again, is about the dimmest bulb at a lighting store, really. And the crap she writes...that's how you really know how out there she is...her thinking, talking, acting is all disordered. She carries around a baby doll and has her staff carry it with her on her multiple vacations. Her kids were taken away from her and she was restricted from seeing/spending time with them. She was - and really still is - a danger to herself and others.

If you can't see it, then you've not spent any time around the mentally ill.

by Anonymousreply 59August 10, 2025 4:08 PM

Lohan was a yacht girl. That's how she supported herself after her career dried up.

by Anonymousreply 60August 10, 2025 4:08 PM

Why should Britney change at this point?

She had a whole army of people on social media demanding her freedom. They dragged her whole family through the mud. They even trashed her own kids simply for daring to say that Britney wasn’t a good mother. (Which anyone with half a brain could have seen).

Now that she’s free and in turmoil, you don’t hear a word from any of them about her mental health. Not one concern.

The Free Britney movement is a prime example of the recklessness of social media, of virtue signaling and bandwagon jumping without bothering to understand the complexities of a situation and that there’s more than one side to a story.

by Anonymousreply 61August 10, 2025 4:19 PM

R59, yeah, I try to stay away from the crazy people.

by Anonymousreply 62August 10, 2025 5:47 PM

Lindsay did what many a wild-child ought to do; she found a plain-lookin', low-key partner with a close family and a steady job. Someone who isn't particularly attracted to the Hollywood stuff. Someone mildly impressed by her accomplishments, but not resentful of them. Her husband seems to give Linz the solid home-life she never got from her parents. Who knows if she will be able to stay on a healthy path, or if she is fully clean, but she certainly appears to be in a much better place than in the past.

Britney's sister Jami-Lynn seems to have travelled a similar road. Things didn't look good for her when she was a kid expressing a desperate desire for her sister's level of fame, and then got pregnant when she was 15/16. Luckily, she moved away from Hollywood, married a weak-chinned man who seems to adore her and her child, they had a kid together and now live most of the time in Louisiana. Once in a while she does some stuff in Hollywood but her home base is a white picket fence family of four in Louisiana. From what I can tell, it seems fairly healthy and happy.

Brit-Brit, on the other hand, never picked solid partners. Justin was jealous of her greater fame, the other guys used her for money, they all seemed to encourage substance use (except for Sam Asghari who, for all his many many faults, seemed to have zero tolerance for drugs or alcohol). She also probably had a predisposition for severe mental illness and flakey parents, fame at a young age, substance use all ensured it came to pass. I'm guessing it would be best for her if she moved back to Louisiana, got 'round-the-clock help/support/ mental health nurse to live with her and ensure she regularly took her meds and kept of social media, spent time in her garden, kitchen and watching Disney movies... Maybe eventually she could find a solid, gentle, kind life partner (but, as someone with a severely mentally-ill family member, I think that might be too much to hope for/ expect). A low-key, low-stress life with lots of appropriate medical care is probably the best we could wish for Britney, but I doubt it will come to pass.

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by Anonymousreply 63August 10, 2025 6:16 PM

I love the assumption that Britney Spears wants to watch Disney movies all day. You must think she's retarded, r63.

by Anonymousreply 64August 10, 2025 10:34 PM

[quote] What did the trick,

At a certain point: not doing the tricks.

by Anonymousreply 65August 10, 2025 10:36 PM

[quote] You must think she's retarded, [R63].

I'm not r63, but let's just say I would be surprised if she knows all the sounds barnyard animals make.

by Anonymousreply 66August 10, 2025 10:37 PM

Jamie Lynn's family looks like those people you see interviewed on "Floribama Murders."

by Anonymousreply 67August 10, 2025 10:40 PM

She lives in Dubai where there's no drugs or alcohol and violating the law is a heavy penalty. I'm sure that helps.

She also said the laws in Dubai don't allow paparazzi to harass celebrities and that probably did a lot for her mental health.

Didn't she become Muslim too? Britney is too mercurial for anything. Which makes for great entertainment and a great dance video with the right director and editing, but not so great for life.

by Anonymousreply 68August 11, 2025 3:11 AM

Do you remember when she tried to kidnap that little girl and she slapped her?

by Anonymousreply 69August 11, 2025 4:45 AM

You can drink in Dubai. It's not Saudi Arabia.

by Anonymousreply 70August 11, 2025 4:49 AM

She finally learned how to roll with the punches. And believe me, in this industry they come left, right, and below the belt.

by Anonymousreply 71August 11, 2025 5:20 AM

[Quote] I think Lindsay Lohan had major problems, too, but she dried out and got lucky that someone halfway decent decided to marry her. Whatever the situation is, it's more stable than what she had before.

R3 - She found someone young and wealthy to marry her and have a baby with. All while she is still young.

R23 she always manages to fail upwards.

by Anonymousreply 72August 11, 2025 9:36 AM

[Quote] Lindsey was an addict who cleaned up her act for her kid. Also, her facelift is up there as one of the best procedures we've seen. She looks great.

R36 Lindsay has always been great at self-promotion. She never went too far and always did just enough to keep the public rooting for her.

by Anonymousreply 73August 11, 2025 9:44 AM

R63 Wow. The little girl looks just like her dad.....

by Anonymousreply 74August 11, 2025 10:04 AM

[quote]Britney is so stupid it's mesmerizing to watch. How can someone be that stupid and famous?

I wouldn't know R32.

by Anonymousreply 75August 11, 2025 10:13 AM

She went to a top secret Swiss clinic and had ALL her blood scrubbed clean. It was 75% cocaine I heard.

by Anonymousreply 76August 11, 2025 3:48 PM

, Grew up and realized the only way to move ahead was confronting your problems is by taking charge of your life.

by Anonymousreply 77August 11, 2025 4:10 PM
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