Lindsay Lohan Featured in Vanity Fair: Vows She Wants Her Career Back

(HMG) – Newly free from incarceration actress Lindsay Lohan, who will featured on the cover page of Vanity Fair’s October issue, says she will do whatever it takes to fix her party-girl image. In the revealing interview conducted last month, shortly before she began to serve her jail term and stint in rehab, the 24-year-old Lohan admits she was “irresponsible” during her party days that landed her in jail this summer, but that she was “experimenting” just like many other college-aged kids, and, more important, she wants her career back.  She says she was a teenager with too much cash: “I didn’t have any structure, blaming her father Michael Lohan, for not being there for his family,  and calling him chemically imbalanced.  I think a lot of it was because when I was doing my first slew of movies, it was very go-go, and I had a lot of responsibility, and I think just the second I didn’t have [structure] anymore—I was 18, 19—with a ton of money.”   From Lindsay’s perspective, her problems have been inextricably tied to the company she’s kept. “So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons.”  Lindsay admits that she would look to celebrity tabloids as a way to find out more about the other stars she admired. Lohan called it “really scary and sad… I would look up to those girls… the Britneys and whatever. And I would be like, I want to be like that.”

As for drug use, “I’ve never abused prescription drugs. I never have — never in my life. I have no desire to. That’s not who I am,” she says. “I’ve admitted to the things that I’ve done — to, you know, dabbling in certain things and trying things ’cause I was young and curious and thought it was like, okay, ’cause other people were doing it and other people put it in front of me. And I see what happened in my life because of it.”

But Lohan decries Hollywood sexism, saying male stars are allowed to party but keep their gigs.

Moving ahead, she says, “I want my career back. “I know that I’m a damn good actress, and it’s been my passion since I was a child, and I know that when I care about something, I put 100 percent and more into it.” … I want the respect that I had when I was doing great movies. And if that takes not going out to a club at night, then so be it. It’s not fun anyway. I don’t care. It’s the same thing every time.”

The October issue of Vanity Fair will hit newsstands in New York and Los Angeles Thursday.