Michael Lohan has been outspoken with his belief that daughter Lindsay is addicted to prescription pills and should go to rehab, not jail. With the actress headed to jail, however, his worries for her safety have intensified, as have those for daughter Ali.
“Are you worried about her in these next two weeks before she goes?” Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos asked Michael about Lindsay.
“Yeah,” he said.
“And what is your concern?” Maria asked.
“The people around her are still there and she hasn’t done anything to change,” he said.
Michael also fears for the well-being of his 16-year-old daughter, Ali, who is living with Lindsay as the actress awaits her 90-day sentence for violating her probation.
“I don’t think that anyone thought that Lindsay was going to go to jail except for me,” he told Maria. “I came out here because I knew it was a very, very possible thing. And my concern, at that point, was if Lindsay went to jail and Ali was with her and she’s only 16, who is she going to be with? Lindsay’s bimbo friends? So I had to be there.”
Inside the court hearing, Michael made preparations to take Ali with him.
“I knew there was going to be an issue, so I went and called 911,” Michael told Maria. “I called the Beverly Hills Police Department. I said, listen, ‘[I’m] Michael Lohan; my daughter Lindsay is just getting sentenced to jail time; they might take her away and my 16-year-old is going to be on her own. I’m her father and I don’t know the people she’s with… I want to take her with me and I’m afraid there’s going to be a problem.’”
Access confirmed with the Beverly Hills Police that Michael did place that call at 3:26 PM on July 6.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Lindsay will spend her time behind bars inside the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood. It’s the same jail which Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie served time.
Access showed Michael footage of the cells and he was struck by the size.
“That’s her bunk!” he said. “She’s gonna go nuts!”
The Special Needs Unit, where Lindsay will spend her time, contains 12, two-person cells, each measuring 12 ft. by 8 ft.
Inmates are allowed out of the cell for one hour every day when they can shower, watch TV or use the phone. No cell phones or other mobile devices are allowed.
“Picture someone like Lindsay who is so outgoing and can’t sit still and wants to go out and do things all the time. Picture her in a cell — it’s a 23-hour lockdown,” Michael, who has spent time behind bars, told Maria. “I’m speaking from firsthand experience.
“I got sliced,” Michael said of his time in lock-up. “I got glass put in my food. I got stabbed.”
But unlike Michael, who was placed primarily in the general population during his 2005 prison sentence, Lindsay will remain in a private cell.
“Do you think this could have an adverse effect on her?” Maria asked.
“It will. I don’t think. It will. It will. No doubt,” he said.
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