Michael Lohan wants daughter Lindsay to use her time before her 90-day jail sentence wisely.
“Now is the time for her to get better. Get off all those drugs, get off all the prescriptions, go in to detox now before you go to jail,” he told Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos in a new interview. “Maybe the judge will see it and rescind the sentence.”
Michael has maintained in multiple interviews with Access Hollywood that his daughter has a problem with prescription drugs. In October 2009, he told Access, “I want my daughter off prescription medication… I’m not going to watch my daughter die.” Lindsay’s lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, previously told Access that the actress found Michael’s claims defamatory.
His previous claims were given some vindication on Wednesday, when the prescriptions Lindsay is taking were made public – with the full list coming as a surprise even to Michael. According to a probation officer’s report obtained by Access, her prescriptions include Nexium, Zoloft, Trazodone, Adderall and “sometimes” Dilaudid.
“That is toxic,” he told Maria in Access’ new interview. “That combination will kill her. If she keeps up with that, she has too much to drink or adds anything to it, they’re all contradictory… Dilaudid is eight times more powerful than morphine.”
As for her looming jail sentence, Michael said he would support the 24-year-old throughout her stint.
“Look, I don’t want to be camped outside of a jail and have to go and visit everyday, but if she’s in jail, I’m going to be there everyday and get her out of the cell,” he said. “I’m not going to let her sit in a cell all day long.”
One thing Michael is happy about is Judge Marsha Revel’s assignment of a pair of doctors to give Lindsay a psychiatric evaluation.
“The judge did do a good thing and assign two doctors to evaluate what Lindsay should be on and shouldn’t be on but she’s a manipulator, she’s a drug addict and she’s probably the best in the world — she will convince them that she needs this and that not because she’s on it and addicted to it,” he said. “She’s just in denial, further denial ‘cause she wants them to keep her on them.”
Michael went on to say that he believes Lindsay was driven to using prescription drugs because of doctors who thought she needed it to cope with personal pain.
“The pinnacle of her career, she was on no medication. That’s when Dina and I got divorced and from that point on and Lindsay was going through all the heartache or sorrow the torment of not having a mom or dad and drinking and doing cocaine,” Michael said.
“Doctors or addiction specialists put her on these medications because they said there’s deeper rooted issues and she never needed them before and she didn’t need them now,” he claimed. “They’re responsible, they should be held accountable and someone needs to do something about doctors that write prescription medication so freely and they’re Dr. Feel Goods and that’s it.”
Asked if Lindsay’s sentence could be a good thing, Michael added that Lindsay won’t turn a corner unless she gets help after her jail time.
“Unless she gets therapy when she gets out, to talk about what jail was like and release that and all the other pain,” he said. “There’s a lot of things that happened in her life when I was gone that I didn’t know about that really were devastating… she was violated in so many different ways. I don’t even want to go there.”
And, he said, his daughter needs to clean house of hangers-on he claims are a bad influence.
“The people around her are still there and she hasn’t done anything to change,” Michael said.
Lindsay must turn herself into the court by July 20 after the judge ruled she had violated her probation.
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