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07/25/2007: "Saddened, But Hardly Surprised"
If you had "2 weeks" in the "Lindsay Lohan Falls Off The Wagon On Her Face" pool, it looks like you get to collect. Lohan was arrested early Tuesday in Santa Monica and faces a series of charges that include driving under the influence and cocaine possession.
OK - show of hands of everyone who's surprised? That's what I thought. Somehow, when you hear that someone coming out of rehab - and wearing an alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet - heads straight for Las Vegas, you don't expect good news to follow. The fact that she claimed it was "to prove that she could still party without drinking" didn't carry much weight, either.
She's in a world of hurt this time. Among the charges were carrying drugs into a jail facility (she had a baggie of cocaine in her pocket) and driving on an expired license (the charge that famously took down Paris Hilton). She'll need a mighty big shovel to dig out from under this mess, and a microscope to find her career once it's all over. Hey, what did you expect - you let teenage girls run around with a pocket full of money and surrounded by hanger-on who'll facilitate their lifestyle. Gee - some of them fall flat on their faces.
For now, she needs to focus on getting right with the world and herself. There'll be plenty of time to straighten out the rest of it once she's clean and sober ... again ...
