Ms. LINDSAY LOHAN:
I never do anything like that.
GEORGE LEWIS reporting:
An emotional
Lindsay Lohan
admitted she had missed some of her court-ordered
alcohol education
classes, but begged the judge to be lenient.
Ms. LOHAN:
I did do everything that I was told to do and did the best I could to, you know, balance jobs and showing up. I'm sorry. Give me two seconds.
LEWIS:
She was partying at the
Cannes Film Festival
most recently when she missed her sessions at an alcohol and drug treatment center. The judge had previously warned her that she had to attend the program on a weekly basis.
Lohan
said work got in the way sometimes.
Ms. LOHAN:
And I
respect you and I've been taking it seriously.
LEWIS:
But Judge
Marsha Ravel
was not moved.
Judge MARSHA RAVEL:
The court just doesn't buy that at this time.
LEWIS:
She ordered
Lohan
jailed for
90 days
starting
July 20th
for violating her probation.
Judge RAVEL:
Thirty days
in jail on the first
DUI
case consecutive.
LEWIS:
Lohan
seemed stunned. She had been on probation since her
2007
drunk driving conviction.
Mr. ROYAL OAKES (Legal Analyst):
The fact is this is not a sentence that amounts to a slam, this is not a
hanging judge
taking it out on
Lindsay Lohan
.
Ninety
days isn't exactly time in a gulag.
LEWIS:
She'll do time here at a women's facility south of
downtown Los Angeles
, the same place where
Paris Hilton
was jailed when she violated her probation on a drunk driving charge.
Lohan
, like
Hilton
, will have a private cell.
Mr. STEVE WHITMORE (Spokesman, LA County Sheriff):
She will be kept out of the general population for the safety and security of everybody involved in the jail.
LEWIS:
On top of that, she'll have to serve
90 days
in a residential rehab program.
Lohan
's father,
Michael
, said his daughter should have been put in rehab all along.
Mr. MICHAEL LOHAN:
It just shows how the system can fail people and my daughter's been failed in this case.
Ms. LOHAN:
I'm not taking this as a joke. It's my life and it's my career and something I've worked for my entire life.
LEWIS:
But if she wasn't taking it as a joke, why did she have a vulgar epithet written on her fingernail in photos that emerged after the
court hearing
? Raising the question `will jail time and rehab give
Lohan
a change of attitude?' For TODAY,
George Lewis
, NBC News,
Los Angeles
.
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