
Michael Lohan Says Matt Lauer Didn't Ambush Dina
EXCLUSIVE: Meet Michael Lohan, fact checker. The celebrity dad is calling out ex-wife Dina's "lies" during her slightly squeamish sit-down with the 'Today' show. Michael doesn't think host Matt Lauer ambushed her, as Dina believes (according to a family friend), and Michael tells me exclusively that Dina has "failed miserably with Lindsay" and just needs to admit her failure (and also stop saying they've been split for 15 years).
"Matt didn't ambush Dina. If anything Matt was easy on her. Dina hardly gave him a chance to ask questions and when he did, she didn't answer them or just lied," Michael Lohan tells me.
According to PopEater sources, Dina wanted to focus the 'Today' chat on Judge Marsha Revel's alleged mishandling of her daughter's case, along with her take on the media's portrayal of Lindsay. Instead, Lauer pressed Dina to defend Lindsay and address scrutiny for the way she raised the troubled starlet.
"As a parent, you have to let them go a little bit," she said during the Friday morning chat. "You can't make your child not go out and go to a club and not get behind the wheel of a car."
Michael tells me that Dina just needs to be honest and admit her mistakes. But after Friday's performance, he's not so sure what to think.
"I don't know whether Dina needs the rehab, serious counseling, an exorcism or jail," he says. "Her constant denials and lies on 'Today' only prove how corrupted her heart and motives are."
Dina also raised eyebrows when she told Lauer that she hasn't been with Michael for 15 years, even though their divorce was only finalized in 2007.
"We have only been divorced for five years, so I don't know why Dina told Lauer that we haven't been together in 15 years. My youngest son is only 14. I saw my boys a month ago and spent the day with our daughter, Ali, just a month ago," Michael told me in response to Dina's claims.
But Michael tells me he knows the best path for his daughter.
"What Lindsay needs is family therapy with Dina and me. Something that has been recommended by professionals for years, however, Dina just won't let it happen. It's all about money controlling Lindsay to Dina. She has failed miserably with Lindsay. We have both caused this situation with our daughter and we need to fix it together as parents."
And although Michael is one parent who
finally admits responsibility, he says, "The only thing Dina got right in the interview with Matt Lauer on 'Today' is nothing has changed."
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Chicago attorney Stuart Goldberg declines the 'Fragile Lost Child's case and calls Los Angeles a toxic environment. Lindsay Lohan at Culver Studios on Monday, July 12, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
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Actually, he`s the only one that has shown even the slightest hint on sanity or intelligence lately. At least he admits he`s partly to blame for effing his kid up.
I would be so ashamed to have parents like this. It almost makes me feel sorry for lindsey, but no, shes old enough to know better. Dina is the worst in my opinion. The woman was on something, or drunk during the interview. Making excuse after excuse for lindsey. Thats one of the worst things a parent can do. It never helps anyone.
It is funny to me that michael said dina was lying. I would believe prison guy over dina any day. He seems more honest.
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for once her dad is right. im sorry but i felt dina was being stupid and arrogant. she needs to admit her mistakes and her failure as a mother! linds wouldn't be in this mess if both her mother and father would of taught her right. sorry dina but if linds dies young you have no one to blame but yourself!
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That girl is nothing but a trainwreck, and both her parents are morons; typical Long Island air heads................
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Have you ever even been to Long Island? Just because these two idiots settled on Long Island and decided to raise their seriously dysfuntional family on Long Island, does not make everyone else who lives there Lohan clones. Grow up.
That tough love judge may have been trying to save Lindsey's life . . . something that her own mother doesn't seem to care enough about to make it her No. 1 priority!!!
After all, if Lindsey took a long break from show business . . . the 'gravy train' and the non-stop flow of MONEY would slow down and directly affect Dina!!!
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Just like I said, the mom is crazy. A poor example to her daughter. It's all about living vicariously through her daughter, and her money. Bad publicity is bad for Lindsay's career, which is bad for Dina. Stop being a money grubbing hooch mama Lohan, and start being a mother to your daughter. And if that means grounding her at 24, then so be it. Both beeches need to grow up.
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Indeed, she has FAILED! FAILED as a mother, FAILED as a person, FAILED as a human being. Lindsey, you are an abysmal disgrace, and you too are a miserable FAILURE! (snicker) You are a mockery (tee hee) and a disgrace (snicker) and you can't dress, and you have bad taste in clothes (snicker) and you have B.O. (tee hee) and your "girlfriend has bad breath (chortle)...
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Lindsey is 24 !! Old enough not to have anyone to blame but herself..parents are just out there to promote themselves!
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This is not about Lindsys parents . Don't care if they are good or bad parents. This is all about Lindsys recovery and helping her get her life back and in order.She needs everybodys support now , to heck with dads wishes and mothers way of defending Lindsy. Lets all support Lindsy.
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The moron father of LiLo is right for once. Dina needs to stop this denial of the facts and get help herself. I cannot stand this woman at all and she was being disrespectful towards Matt Lauer.
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The Worst Mother of the Year award should definitely go to Dina Lohan. I hope for Lindsays sake her rehabilitation stint this time wakes her up to the fact that her so called loving mother is not. Dina took a young, vibrant and talented girl and made her into a alcoholic, drug taking mess that ruined her career. This woman is a disgrace to the word motherhood, and her youngest child should be removed from her clutches before she ruins her too!!!
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I've got to admit I didn't really read the whole article, BECAUSE WHO GIVES DAMN about this train wreck of a family, I mean really how does this even rate as worthy of anyone reading??????
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lindsay needs to wake up and see her father is the one that is looking out for her best interest not her mother. her mother only want her daughter to stay on the payroll. don't give up on her michal, she will wake up and see you for the supportive father you are
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I think they both failed miserably as parents. She had no structure in the home while she was growing up. What they ended up with was a spoiled, and out of control brat and I'm being polite.Children need that structure to learn what is socially acceptable. Teens watch Lohan and think because her parents do not correct her behavior that it will seem to them that it is OK
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SEEMS LIKE BOTH MOTHER AND FATHER FAILED THEIR DAUGHTER. LINDSAY IS PRODUCT OF SHOW BUSINESS, A RUTHLESS EGO DRIVEN EXISTENCE. HER PARENTS DID LITTLE TO GIVE HER THE HOME AND DIRECTION SHE NEEDED, NO GROUNDING, NO RULES, HORRIBLE EXAMPLES. THEY LIVED AND CONTINUE TO LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH LINDSAYS CELEBRITY BOTH GOOD AND BAD. THEY ARE GREAT EXAMPLES OF HOW PARENTS SHOULD NOT BE.
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No matter how messed up my family is I can always count on someone from Hollywierd to make me feel better about it. Dina has set the bar so low that even I the wicked step mother can feel great about my parenting skills!
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Michael is right for once in his life . Dina is an addict herself and has enabled Lindsay since she was a very young teenager . And it will continue .
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The family is pathetic. She hails from my hometown, and I've read nothing good about them all those years ago. Just look at the parents and all they've tried to do is hang on to Lindsey's coat tails of money money and more money. They got it, and now want more, and they don't care what it does to their child. Both are very sick parents and the sad part is something serious will happen and that would be the total shame of it all.
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Lindsay?
I agree with you father, but my suggestion is this, take the money power away from your mother, and if you have any money dealings with you dad, do the same.....You'll find out quick where their heart is with you then.....The one that stays and want to get things right with you wins....
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