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Remember how a few weeks ago I said we'd be able to get away from hardcore social issues as soon as Lindsay Lohan screwed up again?
Guess what? Lindsay Lohan screwed up again!
This week, TMZ reported that, not only is Lohan in hot water for not making it to her court-ordered community service, but she has also been served for the alleged attack on a Betty Ford Center worker during her rehab stay last year.
In a brief, harsh hearing in Los Angeles on Oct. 19, Judge Stephanie Sautner revoked Lindsay's probation, ordered her put in handcuffs and set a hearing for Nov. 2, at which point Lindsay could be sentenced to up to a year and a half in jail. Citing a failure to attend her community service, Sautner declared that "probation is a gift," rejecting attorney Shawn Holley's defense argument that Lindsay had to leave town for work. "She's supposed to be an actress, from what I hear, though I haven't heard much about her acting lately," Sautner said, and dismissed the idea that Lindsay's work was more important than her court-mandated service. Burn!
Lohan was assigned to complete 16 hours at the L.A. County Morgue before her Nov. 2 hearing in two eight-hour sessions. Unfortunately, she didn't get off to a good start—she showed up almost 40 minutes late for her first session on Oct. 20 and was turned away. Lindsay's publicist blamed the late arrival on "a combination of not knowing what entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival," but anyone who's ever tried to travel in rush hour knows that when you expect difficulty getting somewhere—for example, like Lindsay should have expected a crazy horde of paparazzi—you leave an extra half hour early.
In addition to her new stressful schedule of community service and a looming hearing date, Lohan also has to deal with the lawsuit from Betty Ford worker Dawn Bradley, who filed the suit in July. Legal proceedings are only getting started now, but TMZ reports that Bradley wants at least a million dollars to compensate her for the "mental, physical and nervous pain and suffering from the alleged assault."
While new laws and the overcrowding of the California prison system suggest that Lindsay probably won't end up in jail, potential jail time and an increasingly likely $1-million payout add up to a pretty rough morning for everyone's favorite former mean girl.
Oh, Miss Lohan. Whatever are we going to do with you?
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