Lindsay Lohan Admits to Bulimia

tulip · January 4th, 2006, 01:14 PM

Forgive me if this has already been posted. From People.com:

While Lindsay Lohan, admitted to a Miami hospital Monday night after suffering a severe asthma attack, is now "resting comfortably," an explosive interview with the Mean Girls star hits newsstands Wednesday – and lifts the curtain on her self-confessed bulimia, drug use and emotional wreckage over her relationships with her volatile father and her first boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama.

"I was making myself sick," Lohan, 19, admits to Vanity Fair magazine, of her bulimia.

She credits Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and head writer Tina Fey with helping solve her eating disorder by staging an intervention. "(They) sat me down, literally before I was going to do (SNL), and they said, 'You need to take care of yourself. We care about you too much, and we've seen too many people do this, and you're talented,' and I just started bawling. I knew I had a problem and I couldn't admit it."

Adds Lohan, "I saw that SNL after I did it. My arms were disgusting. I had no arms."

The actress also says that she used drugs "a little," then quickly adds: "I've gotten that out of my system. ... I don't want people to think that I've done ... you know what I mean? It's kind of a sore subject."

In her romantic life, she confesses to smothering Valderrama and pushing their relationship to the brink because she didn't know who else to go to with her problems, including those with her father, currently serving jail time for assault on a family member.

Regarding reports of a relationship with Jared Leto, all she tells Vanity Fair is, "We're great friends."

As for her current hospitalization, Lohan celebrated New Year's Eve in Miami, hosting a party at Prive Nightclub when the asthma attack occurred, said her publicist, Leslie Sloane. Sloane added that Florida's humidity may have contributed to the condition of the actress, who has suffered from asthma since childhood.

Lohan is set to begin shooting her new film, Chapter 27, in two weeks. The movie, about John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, stars Lohan as a Lennon fan who befriends Chapman (played by Leto) just days before he assassinates the musician outside his New York apartment building.

Bellatheball · January 4th, 2006, 01:20 PM

I love how the humidity added to her asthma attack...smoking couldn't have had a thing to do with it.

**NoDayButToday** · January 4th, 2006, 01:32 PM

I refuse to say anything bad about her re: this article. My sister is still in recovery from bulimia. It's a hard road, and I feel for her. I hope she's doing better.

sweetrebel · January 4th, 2006, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Bellatheball

I love how the humidity added to her asthma attack...smoking couldn't have had a thing to do with it.

Of course not, bella, she has those "special" cigarettes that all celebs have...those organic, all natrual cigarettes that will not adversely affect your health...

CherryDarling · January 4th, 2006, 01:41 PM

Does she actually admit to using cocaine in the article? I read a snippet earlier that said she admitted to "using drugs...a little". Yeah, a little every, errr....hour or so.

milky*mcgee · January 4th, 2006, 01:43 PM

My sister has bulimia, too, but doesn't have the $$$ to get the best care possible like La Lohan has to speed the recovery process, so I'm not feeling too sorry for her. Plus all those lies she told non stop about the weight loss...which I know bulimics will do, but still. She is a role model for young girls, and it sucks that those around her, mainly her Mom, didn't see this before Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey!!!

Fonzarelli23 · January 4th, 2006, 01:46 PM

I will say I think it takes a lot to admit all of that. We all assumed it all along but to actually hear it is unusual. Wasn't the drug usage and bulimia going on when she was best of friends with Ritchie. Well, I for one am sure it was just a coincidence.

AliceInWonderland · January 4th, 2006, 01:58 PM

dumb bitch

I wish her; kim stewart, Paris, and Nicole would all die and go straight to H E L L !

muchlove · January 4th, 2006, 04:18 PM

At least she admitted it. It's a lot better than carrying on for the next 10 years and insisting that it was puberty or whatever nonsense she said before. Now when will she come out about her boob job?

AliceInWonderland · January 4th, 2006, 05:15 PM

oh yes JHo go to hell as well! dumb bitches

WickedHo · January 4th, 2006, 05:27 PM

Bravo, Lindsay!

Wow, and this girl's only 19?? Such a clear head on her shoulders. Well, sorta. I mean, she's fessed up instead of continuing to lie, so that shows maturity and lucidity.

She has gained so much more respect from me now. I used to like her, and now I think I like her again. But I'm a fickle bitch, so that could change at any minute!

MgMMD · January 4th, 2006, 05:34 PM

I am damn glad that she admitted her weightloss wasn't "safe" and "natural."

Saery · January 4th, 2006, 07:12 PM

It does take a lot of guts to admit she has had problems, even if it was obvious to outsiders. Admitting one's problem is a step to recovery. Whether you like her or not, you have to give her credit for owning up to the truth.

miss_perfect · January 4th, 2006, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bellatheball

I love how the humidity added to her asthma attack...smoking couldn't have had a thing to do with it.

I know! When we moved down here from the north, my mom's asthma (which was pretty nasty) completely disappeared. And you can't get more humid than Florida.

Grimmlok · January 4th, 2006, 08:23 PM

Yeah, owning up to the truth after her PR people spun, lied, denied and covered up for about a year...

REAL BALLSY.