Lindsay Lohan’s Mother Made Her A Real-Life Parent Trap
YouTube/ABCLindsay Lohan with her celebrity parents Michael and Dina Lohan.
Lindsay Lohan was 11 years old when her blockbuster film The Parent Trap made her a star. A kindhearted role model for girls and young teens onscreen, she grew into a tabloid spectacle after 2004’s Mean Girls — perhaps in large part due to her stage mother, Dina Lohan.
Though the media initially focused on the egregious exploits of her father, Michael Lohan, who Lohan publicly accused of domestic violence and who was imprisoned for fraud while his daughter was becoming a star, her mother was just as scandalous.
Lohan’s parents divorced in 2005, but Lohan remained tight with her mother, Dina. The two appeared immeasurably close, and the two were caught drinking, doing drugs, and getting DUIs together.
Dina gallivanted around Hollywood nightclubs with her teenage daughter, who was photographed passed out in public more often than she was on the red carpet. Meanwhile, Dina was arrested for a DUI after one of their 2007 outings.
James Devaney/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesStage mother Dina Lohan (right) leaving a Manhattan nightclub with her daughter in 2009.
The two purportedly did cocaine together, but then Dina Lohan saw her daughter graduate to methamphetamine and crack. Lohan consequently spent nearly a year in rehab.
Then, Michael Lohan revealed that his ex-wife had forced Lindsay Lohan to sign a lifetime management agreement that gave her a handsome cut of her child’s profits when she was just 10.
Lohan retorted that her father’s one and only visit to the set of The Parent Trap concluded with his arrest for violating his parole.
Meanwhile, Lohan’s relationship with her mother remained explosive. In 2012, she was overheard complaining to her father about Dina, saying, “She’s saying disgusting things to me. She’s like the fucking devil right now.”
As far as celebrity parents go, the Lohans might be among the most dramatic.
