Posted on 12/01/2006 5:06:05 PM PST by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK - Lindsay Lohan has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said Friday. "She started attending some, and I think it's a positive thing," Leslie Sloane told The Associated Press. "My biggest fear is who's the big idiot to out which (chapter) she goes to."
She said Lohan, 20, made the decision on her own to attend meetings, although Sloane added: "And, by the way, she's not saying ... she'll stop drinking tomorrow."
"It's a place to go and feel safe," she said. "No one judges her, and it's going to be a slow process. But, to me, the fact that she's seeing that there's something not right makes her smarter than the next person."
In an interview Friday with E! Entertainment Television's Ryan Seacrest, Lohan's mother, Dina, echoed Sloane's comments. "That is true ... It's a positive thing," she said.
The New York Post first reported sightings of Lohan at an AA meeting earlier this week. The actress, who's currently filming "The Best Time of Our Lives," recurringly makes that paper's gossipy Page Six and other celebrity columns for her hard-partying ways.
Sloane said she thinks the press was unfair to Lohan by ridiculing a statement the actress wrote following last week's death of Robert Altman, who directed her in "A Prairie Home Companion."
A sad Lohan wrote the rambling letter "on the fly" on her Blackberry, Sloane said.
The letter, in which Lohan signs off with "BE ADEQUITE," has been criticized by a number of media observers for its grammatical errors and misspellings, among other things — including exploiting Altman's death for her own publicity purposes.
Patt Morrison, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, derided it on The Huffington Post Web site as "alarmingly incoherent" and said Altman might find it "comedic."
"I want everyone to leave her the hell alone," Sloane said. "I'm so bored of this with her. No matter what she does, it's never good enough for everybody."
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I would be more than happy to tutor her in an attempt to brush up her spelling skills as well.
The nightclubs that are letting her in should be punished. She's not even 21 and she's out there getting wasted.
I don't think there's a rule in AA that a member can't disclose HIS or HER participation, just can't reveal identify of others in the group.
I agree on both your points. The thing that I take out of this anonymous or otherwise is that she is thinking about drinking and what it is doing to her and how it affects her and those around her.
"I don't think there's a rule in AA that a member can't disclose HIS or HER participation, just can't reveal identify of others in the group."
You are wrong. But not everyone follows AA's Traditions.
One of the lines in her statement was step 4 of the 12 steps.
Also, we speculated before that her note read like it was typed in on a blackberry.
I think the idea here is to steal the thunder of the NY Post.
For the love of God, she's trying to get help!
Leave her the hell alone.
It looks to me that the article states she was 'outed' by the New York Post.
Good Luck with that! I'll bet some sleazy reporters are going to meetings as I type hoping to sneak a pic or some film in case she shows up and to hell with the other people's privacy, anonymity and health.
Well...Yes and No
My reading of the 11th and 12th traditions and the commentary provide in "Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions",
shows agreeded upon acceptance of the breaking of anonymity to a close friend, family member, minister or doctor.
A problem occurs when an individual discloses their participation in AA for public self-promotion.
Of great danger also are ambitious individuals who present themselves as speaking for or representing the group.
Interesting quote that illustrates the difference between the press of today and that of the pre-1950s
The Foundation wrote letters to practically every news outlet in North America, setting forth our public relations policy of attraction rather than promotion, and emphasized the personal anonymity of AA's greatest protection.Since that time, editors and rewrite men have repeatedly deleted names and pictures of members from AA copy; frequently they have reminded ambitious individuals of AA's anonumity policy. They have even sacrificed good stories to this end.
The force of their cooperation has certainly helped. Only a few AA members are left who deliberately break anonymity at the public level.
Yeah, tough for a celebrity to attend meetings - there are definitley down-sides to being rich and famous.
I thank the Lord every day for my obscurity and poverty. ; )
She always seemed like a nice girl. It is a shame that she got mixed up in drugs and alcohol, but she is only 20. Most people are not pillars of responsibility at that age, and the fact that she has so much money and fame can't help.
Well, she makes a lot of money, and part of that is because people want to see her. I think that her career is largely over, though. I hope she saved some money, has a good business manager, and that she gets sober.
Good luck and God bless you Lindsay.
I think her publicicst was responding to reports. If a famous actress shows up at AA people will recognize her.
Yep, a poor and obscure man has treasures that a rich man can't buy.
Hells bells, she might even look attractive to me if I had about 15 pints of IPA.
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