FILE: Lindsay Lohan checks in to the Betty Ford Center in Southern California after a day of confusion

Record ID: 868008

  • Title: FILE: Lindsay Lohan checks in to the Betty Ford Center in Southern California after a day of confusion
  • Date: 3rd May 2013
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (FILE) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) VARIOUS OF LOHAN IN COURT
  • Embargoed: 18th May 2013 13:00
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  • Topics: Crime,Entertainment,People
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  • Story Text: Actress Lindsay Lohan has checked herself into a rehabilitation facility, following a day of confusion on Thursday (May 2) over whether she was complying with court-ordered treatment for a reckless driving charge.
    "She did check into the rehab (center) and I will still be going through a vetting process," Santa Monica City Deputy Attorney Terry White, the prosecutor in the June 2012 car crash case, told Reuters in an email on Friday (May 3).
    White did not name the rehab center, but celebrity news website site TMZ.com said Lohan had entered the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, 120 miles (193 km) east of Los Angeles, early Friday (May 03) morning.
    Lohan must complete 90 days in a locked rehab center by July 31 to comply with a March plea bargain.
    The "Mean Girls" star, who has spent at least five stints in rehab in the past six years, threw prosecutors into confusion earlier this week when she switched her choice of rehab from the New York area to a center in Newport Beach in Southern California.
    She spent only minutes at the Newport Beach facility, White said on Thursday, before disappearing from public view.
    Lohan spent several weeks at the Betty Ford Center in late 2010 after failing a court-ordered drug test.
    White has until May 10 to decide whether the rehab program meets the requirements of Lohan's plea bargain.
    Lohan is also shuffling her legal team. She has rehired her former attorney, Shawn Holley. Holley, who represented Lohan for several years and managed to keep the actress out of jail for a jewelry theft, was part of the O.J. Simpson defense team and is among Southern California's top criminal defense attorneys.
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