It could have been an award-winning performance for LiLo had it been a movie and not her trial in Beverly Hills. Staring down a terrifying stint in a cramped Los Angeles County jail cell, an overwrought Lindsay Lohan made a weepy last-ditch plea for freedom, even invoking her charity work with Moroccan children at one point.
"I did everything I was told to do, I thought I was being compliant," Lohan, 24, cried as she tried to explain that she didn’t knowingly violate her probation in a DUI case by missing weekly alcohol-education classes. "I’m not taking this as a joke; it’s my life and career. I don’t want you to think I don’t respect you and your terms." And the weeping audience to her tears were her father Michael Lohan – himself no stranger to courtrooms due to his own battles with the bottle – and 16-year-old sister Ali.
In the end, the tears and tissues and smeared mascara held no sway over a very irate Superior Court Judge, Marsha Revel who sentenced Lohan to 90 days in jail, three times what prosecutors were seeking. She branded LiLo a serial liar. "I couldn’t have been more clear [about my orders]," Revel said. "There are no excuses."
Lohan was ordered to surrender to the court on July 20 to begin her sentence, probably at the women’s Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., where she previously served just 84 minutes of a 24-hour sentence nearly three years ago.
The actress is headed for Los Angeles County‘s Century Regional Detention Facility, an all-female jail that was a temporary home to inmates Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
Upon her release from rehab, Lohan will still be forbidden from consuming alcohol until the remainder of her probation term which ends in August 2011.
Will this tough task set LiLo straight? Or was she crying out the truth? Will we see a drug free Lindsay in 2011? How will she survive?
The wise have said: patience is a virtue, so behold it and keep missing the mean girls’ Lindsay Lohan.
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