
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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Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?
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The Lohans give white trash a bad name!!!!
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ONE WORD: ENABLER (DINA)
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To say that Mom Dina was a "mess" on the Today show is an understatement. She acted like a 13-year-old who was intent on getting her way. No wonder Lindsay is such a mess! The Dad is off the charts certifiable, too. She should divorce her parents and put herself up for court-appointed adoptive parents. AND we are sick of hearing about the Lohan's too!
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IF YOU WOULD STOP WRITING ABOUT HER SHE WOULD GO AWAY, DO US ALL A FAVOR AND JUST O-D AND BE DONE WITH IT. YOU CAN DRESS A PIG UP BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY IT IS STILL A PIG, GET IT? STOP GIVING HER ANY AIR TIME OR PRINT AND SHE WILL GO AWAY
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There's no wonder why this poor girl is so messed up. She is in reh-hab to because she was on a down hill spiral trying to escape the world her parents created. There was nothing okay and safe about her world and her parents did not protect her. They were too selfish trying to BE RIGHT. I was swaying on Michaels side for once and then he had to get out there and sit on somebody else's panel. (I don't even have to watch the stupid interview!) The fact is... he could have taken the higher road...Obviously Dina was totally wrong. But Michale has to get his butt on every interview out there that will hear him hear his side... When will they see that it's NOT all about THEM??? And their selfishness is what has gotten Lindsay in this hot mess? If they had worked as a team and put their differences aside the world would be much more sympathetic!
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Michael s bragging he saw his kids a month ago....does he know how much he missed in a month.....She tried and he talks...she s a mixed up mom and he s an absent dad
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Dina Lohan is enjoying the fame from being Lindsay's Mom, so how can she possibly help. Anybody remember the E Reality Show, Raising Lohan, about making Allison Lohan a Star? One season and it was over.
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I saw the "Today" interview with Dina and Michael is right this woman is in denial, denial, denial. But there were two omissions, first the woman is dumb as a rock and secondly he failed miserably right beside her.
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If Lindsey were younger, the courts could help her by putting her in the care of SOMEONE not a parent. At her age she is considered an adult and it would be hard for anyone to decree that she not see her mother. (they've taken care of the dad.)
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I have a very hard time with these people. They actually think they are the stars. Father is jealous of the Mother, the mother is jealous of her daughter and is constantly hogging the spotlight. Have either of them done anything except have this little girl in their whole lives. Are they million dollar successes?? Does this girl have a grandparent or someone who is not interested souly about her money.
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I'd do her...that's all she's worth.
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What do Lindsey Lohan's parents do for a living? How do they earn a living? How do they support themselves and the other children in the family? Just curious what their occupations are?
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What a terrible father. If he didn't have anything good to say, he should have just kept his mouth shut. His daughter has enough to worry about without him degrading her on top of everything else she is going through. People need to give her a break and let her try to rehabilitate herself. She is a great actress that has not grown up yet. Hopefully she will learn by her mistakes, like all of us, and get on a better path in life. Someone needs to encourage and have faith in her.
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Michael is never right, lets get that straight right off the top!
These two have to be the worse parents in history with their tit for tat exchange. Who can up one, I'm tired of the whole clan. They all need threapy, and the judge did the best thing by taking Lindsay away from them at least to get her head straight.
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dena and matt lauer make a good couple they are both messed up. an as far as linsey is concerned she ought to be still in jail. if it would have been anyone else they would have been. this girl will be dead before she is 50
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u know, yes, lindsay is a loser. but who made her that at their expense? can we say DINA? what a loser! and now she is talking about her son in the business? god help the kid. she needs to have child services take her kids away for child endangerment. the other three are underage. god forbid we need to hear they are being used to satisfy her hunger for fame and fortune. SO SAD!!
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.........."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. " .......
Boy, I guess we should nominate you for all knowing father of the year then huh?
Must be easy to wife bash how the kids were raised from the perspective of a very "part time" father. Heck I bet I could be a perfect parent 1-2 days a month too!
I'm not saying Dina's all that and a bag of chips but for this absentee father to have such opinions is unbelievably conceded.
And again, I'm amused by all the people out there that think their kids success/failure as an adult somehow has something to do with them as parents. Get a grip! Your adult, and pre-adult kids have been making their own choices based partly on family influence and partly on friends influence for years. Just like your failures are not your parents fault, your kids failures are not your fault. Once your an adult, or very close to that age, you're responsible for yourself!
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I feel Dina and Michael Lohan have made Lindsay the way she is at this point in time.
People like those two should Never Have Children.
As for Dina, for her Money and fame is the most important in her life. She always used to party with Lindsay, and drink with her, even though she must have known Lindsay's problem with alcohol.
The same goes for Lindsay's father, Michael. The only interest for both parents, I feel, is Lindsay's money and how she can make more. They don't care about their daughter. What a shame.
My heart goes out to Lindsay. Some time one have to say enough is enough and give the girl "tough love". I feel the time in jail was a good thing, however, the time in the Rehab where drugs and alcohol ran rampent, was Not Good.
Hopefully, this last rehab will help her.
God Bless You, Lindsay, You Can Do It.
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L. L. is an adult now. Maybe she did not have the best parents in the world, but Michael is at least admitting it now. He also is willing to admit Lindsay is wrong & I believe he wants to help her. Her mother, Dina, I don't understand her thinking at all. I think she was on drugs or had been drinking on the Lauer show. I hope Michael can help his daughter.
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