"Lindsay is very happy and her life is back in control," she said.

Earlier this month the actress - the star of films such as Mean Girls, Herbie Fully Loaded and Georgia Rule - checked out of the exclusive Cirque Lodge Treatment Center in Utah, where she has been since August.


Li-Lo to get full-time companion? -Oct 16 2007
Lindsay Lohan is to get round-the-clock help to stay sober, according to her dad.

The star is reportedly set to leave Utah, where she was in rehab, to finish filming Dare To Love Me in Los Angeles.

And her father Michael Lohan told People.com she will have a trained companion for support.

"Lindsay’s companion is really tough, and she’s really nice, she’s an amazing lady, a great influence on Lindsay’s life," Michael told the website.

Michael was also complimentary about Lindsay’s rumoured new beau - Riley Giles - who she apparently met in rehab at Utah’s Cirque Lodge Treatment Center.

"He’s a great, great kid," Michael said. "If you met him, you’d like him."

Unsure of where Lindsay will be staying in LA during filming - which is slated to begin on October 15 - Michael said he expects his famous daughter to return to Utah to live, receive more counselling and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

And he said he’s unconcerned about reports of Li-Lo going out at night to establishments that serve alcohol.

"She goes out, she goes out," he told People. "She does the right thing."



Li-Lo’s paternal support - Oct 2 2007
Lindsay Lohan can rely on some paternal support once she gets out of rehab - the actress’s dad has said he’ll help her.

Michael Lohan, who reunited with the Mean Girls starlet last month after a two-year estrangement, is heading to Utah this week to spend five days of "quality time" with his troubled daughter - a visit he hopes will help in her battle to stay clean and sober, according to the New York Daily News.

"I’m looking forward to spending the next week with her. We’ve been in constant phone contact. She’s in a great, great place now," he said to the paper.

"I’ve never heard her so honest, contrite and focused. Lindsay is weeding out all the bad. She’s taking a step back and re-evaluating her life. What she tells - her honesty and openness - has brought me to tears. It’s beyond words how proud I am of her."

But Michael, who has turned his life around after battling with his own addictions, added: "We’ve still got a lot of catching up to do."

And Li-Lo’s mum, Dina, commented in an email to People.com: "It can only help her recovery. It’s time to mend. He is visiting Lindsay alone because we are giving her dad a chance to make amends."



Li-Lo staying in rehab - Sept 28 2007
Lindsay Lohan will not be leaving the Cirque Lodge rehab program in Utah this weekend, as had previously been speculated, according to her mum.

Dina Lohan told Access Hollywood in an email: "Not true, staying in Utah."

The 21-year-old actress started her treatment at the facility last month - her third rehab stint this year - after she was arrested in the early morning on July 24 on suspicion for drunk driving in Los Angeles.

At the police station, Lindsay was searched and cocaine was found in her pocket, said Santa Monica police spokesperson Lt Alex Padilla.

The Mean Girls actress later issued a statement through her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, saying: "It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."