Lindsay Lohan has always been an easy target for the media, but lately we’ve been pleased to see that the news appears to be good. This morning the first part of an exclusive “comeback” interview with the Today show’s Matt Lauer shows us a Lindsay that has her wits about her. See the video after the jump.
Lindsay seems at ease, even as she gets anything but warmth from Matt Lauer’s dry questioning. Her face appears to be relaxing and it’s good to see she’s still pretty in pale. She says she’s become a homebody, and politely declines to comment on her own habits’ similarities to the late Whitney Houston (tacky, Matt Lauer), calling it “morbid and weird” to talk about that, because it is. I’m excited to see the full interview, which should be airing tomorrow. I can’t help but just want LiLo to be okay, and it appears she’s closer now than she has been in a long time. [via HuffPost]
How do you feel about this interview? Do you feel like the media will still be tough on her for awhile?
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I hope she comes back and kicks some major ass so that everyone who talks shit about her all the time can eat their words. Also, how incredibly tacky of him to ask her the thing about Whitney Houston. It’s disrespectful to both of them. How rude!
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I have always liked her acting she is good and makes it an art I really hope she makes it in her come back she is a beautiful young lady and I wish her the best
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She still has a lot of work to do before she is stable. But as long as she’s trying,then good for her.
ranunculus / 3457 posts
THAT HAIR. Ugh.
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I hope she comes back. That hair is so not her, though.
daisy / 617 posts
It really irks me when people give nicknames to celebrities like they actually know them.
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Alright, I have to ask, finally: what “jump” are you guys talking about? I see no jump. Maybe it’s my browser? I see no jump, or cut, or anything.
hydrangea / 59 posts
@WaitingToShrug@xanga - There’s a jump if you’re viewing from the front page.
http://www.lovelyish.com/
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@lovelyish - Ahah, I see. Thanks! I was starting to wonder what in the world y’all were talking about.
daisy / 603 posts
I agree with you guys about the hair. YUCK! Go back to your natural red and beautiful hair.
sunflower / 321 posts
@clumsyandunaware@xanga - it’s more shorthand than anything else. We don’t claim to know Lindsay personally!
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I really hope she gets herself together. She was such a great actress before all the drugs, and I’d really like to see her in more films. We lose too many through drugs, and it’s just a shame.
daisy / 617 posts
@kackie - I came off way bitchier than I intended. I just know how much it irritates me when people condense my name, so I can only imagine how irritating it must be for celebrities. LOL, sorry for the snark before.
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“has certainly faced her troubles, most of them self-inflicted”? yeah, i wouldn’t really call drug addiction self-inflicted, but thanks for passing judgment, matty boy. i don’t see why people have to be jerks about this. she’s had a lot of problems, everyone knows, we don’t have to go comparing her to whitney houston for shock value.
daisy / 505 posts
Hmm I’m so curious/weirded out so see her on SNL tomorrow
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i liked her in parent trap lawlll.
sunflower / 397 posts
Yeah, her face looks relaxed because she can’t show emotion anymore ._. Sad.
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I’ve never been a fan, but of course I hope she get’s better
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some drugs relax you, you know. Just kidding, I was seeing Mean Girls on tv for the past week and my li’l bro and I miss the “How the Rumors started” Lindsey Lohan was and I am super excited in her comeback and her being clean. Congrats! Hope she does well and hope the media doesn’t be an ass to her again, when she relapses because that reaction makes her want to go back to drugs again. Rooting for clean Lindsey Lohan! Woot! Woot!
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@corporatecrow@xanga - I’m confused. How is drug addiction not self-inflicted? I mean unless someone has been tying you up and injecting heroin between your toes.
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I kind of feel like she maybe wasn’t honest in the interview. Everyone I’ve known that has ever recovered from a substance abuse problem can tell you the exact date and time that they stopped using and she kept seeming to look like she had to struggle to remember when she stopped and kept saying “Oh you know, it’s been a long time.” I hope that that doesn’t mean that she is still actually using.
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@Ms_Lola_Mae@xanga - i’m not saying she has zero responsibility here, but substance abuse problems do seem to run in her family, and she was a child star so i’m sure drugs and alcohol were shoved in her face from a disturbingly early age. plus, honestly, no one WANTS to have a drug control/destroy his or her entire life. yeah, she needs to put the work in to get clean, but it’s not an easy thing to do and addictions are not simple/easy to beat. i just lost someone to an overdose, and sure, i could blame him, and yeah, he has some responsibility there, but when it comes down to it, the drug took him over and he just wasn’t strong enough to beat it, for whatever reason. i just think that calling addiction something “self-inflicted” completely oversimplifies the situation and further stigmatizes a disease that already carries a lot of taboo and shame. his attitude during the entire interview pissed me off. everyone already makes fun of her for being a mess, and now you’re going to be a dick to her too? unnecessary. pick on somebody your own size. no need to kick people when they’re already down.
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@corporatecrow@xanga - I definitely agree that addictions can take over lives. I’ve seen it do so and I know how at first drug use or alcohol abuse or even an eating disorder starts out as something to take the edge off that you intentionally do for fun/stress relief, but then it turns into a monster that you can’t control. I mean aside from the actual physiological addictive properties of the drug/substance, you have trained your body to have that ONE thing that it can go to to help you cope. I am very sorry that you have lost someone to substance abuse and I definitely think that someone saying that addiction should be easy to get over has definitely never faced addiction in his or her life. I did not watch the interview and so I am actually saddened to hear that that is the demeanor that he had towards her.
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Totally. I already watched this interview. Her actions will need to be earned and proven before she should get hired for serious work again. “Proof is in the pudding” or something like that. The media has every right to be skeptical. But…she seems to have good intentions. She also looks fried as hell in the face.
And actually, I’m against the whole ‘PEOPLE SHOULD ONLY HAVE NATURAL HAIR BLARGGGHH CHEMICALS MEAN YOU ARE FAKE!’, but in this instance, yes, the blonde is awful on her, and I think she would look much more refined and mature as the sexy red-head she once was.