
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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Lohan's parents are no doubt mega bottom feeders of the worst kind but Lohan is now of age where she can think for herself and start moving toward rehabilitating her life - for HER not for anyone else. Too many kids carry blame for their failings to their parents door. Adulthood forces most of us to overlook any problems we may have had and get our own short lives together. Lohan really has no more excuses as her parents stand out as obstacles to her future life.
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Did mom lie? Maybe not. Maybe she actually believes what she said. Of course, it's easy to believe anything when you're delusional.
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Her parents are just two swines that are looking to cash in on their daughters fame...everytime someone in the media interviews them or gives them a tv show to talk about lyndseys problems,they make MONEY and keep the subject alive.What the hell do they do for a living anyway? They are the worstBOTTOM FEEDERS in show business .........as parents..HA
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The trouble for the people like the Lohan family. is they are treated as if they are above the law , the law as it stands for the rest of us. They then think they are above the law and do as they please. That as you see time after time works out for the worse. Lohan has some talent and far from ugly but she is a mess and before its over since all that happened to her and paid no price she will hurt herself real bad or hurt some every day person Drugs and drink to not make for a fruitful life
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Michael is right.
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Jess and how is it that you know this? dumber than a rock
They're BOTH messed up people who have set an awful example for their daughter. BUT Linsey is an adult now and is responsible for her actions. It's time for all three of them to grow up.
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Dina Dina Dina, you looked like a babbling fool with Matt...You dont think your daughter has problems, then you have some serious issues, we all saw this with Matt...You Mrs Lohan have set a Bad Example for your daughter! All she is at this point is just about a porno star,
skanky shoots and B movies, no DISNEY'S want her! and some Mental illness!..She will be out in no time and again she will mess up, for this whole mess has only showed her how to cheat the system that she feels is to good for the Lohan women!. Cut another Team Lohan check! I cant wait until Lindsay is out, makes her 1-2 mil on her jail house blues of 13 days story....then its back to the streets with Mom of West Hollywood, were once again she will rule as the, stripper, the druggie, the clepto, the party girl....what no mention of a Hot Actress??? sorry Lindsay Lohan who?
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American trash, all 3 of them, why even write about them?? we sure are sick of the trash
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You have an alcoholic dad and a substance abuser of a daughter and a clueless mom. Whose fault is it really? Apples dont fall far from the tree as they say.
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Some people should not be allowed to pro-create.. this couple is a great example!
What makes them more dangerous than most parents is the fact that they have money.
Such a shame she'll be responsible for raising more kids.
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Looking at the picture of them both it's hard to tell who is the movie star. Dina is re-living her youth as a Rockette dancer and wallowing in the money she has as Lindsey's manager. Lindsey should be taken away from this sick family.
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During my brief chat with Michael Lohan, who was interested in my ghostwriting his memoirs, he repeatedly mentioned that "his" book would be about him, not his daughter - as though anyone would want to read his memoirs if name was Michael Smith. But he kept slipping his daughter into the conversation. I had the icky feeling he was pimping his daughter when he offered up teasers like, "I had to fly to L.A. because Lindsay and her mother were doing cocaine in Lindsay's trailer on the set of..."
As I predicted, I never heard back from him. He told me he was busy "taking meetings" with producers, etc., without explaining why producers would want to talk to him. He wasn't hustling a screenplay like everybody else in La-La Land. He was hustling his daughter.
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Pot....kettle
BOTH parents have failed their children miserably. They seem as if THEY want the spotlight Lindsay has and to use her talent to get themselves into that spotlight. They need to stop talking about their family issues and ALL of them need to get into serious counseling.
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Ooops! I forgot to run my previous post through Spell Check. I meant to write, "If his name were Michael Smith."
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Im tired of the dad always being the villian because he tells the kid what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear....because they try to fix things instead of this post feminism angst bs about just listening....
Lindesy Lohan had the world at her feet and lets make it clear she is the one blowing it
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He doesn't tell the kids anything because they are not around him he doesn't know what is going on in their lives. Besides he doesnt have time he is too busy talking to the media about things he know nothing about. Is that sick or what???
I always thought the father, was a loose cannon but wow; the Mother, takes the cake. I feel for Lindsay, as she's obviously, been affected by her parents. Dina, the Mother, was clearly on the defensive and Matt Lauer, as usual, came out the professional. I think she wasn't prepared to give honest answers about Lindsay. I hope for her sake she sorts it out and spends all the time she needs in therapy. Good luck, Lindsay!
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I watched the Today show that morning with Lindsey's mother and I thought Matt was very respectful and fair. He wanted honest answers and the mother just wasn't going to be honest. She did lie several times and made a fool of herself by doing that. The Bible is so right when it said "Money is the root of all sorts of injurious things." Putting money first in this family has made a huge mess of them all. It would be nice if the mom and dad could put away their differences for the sake of their children....and try to mend.
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The lohan's and the Palin's family and others like these spaced out brain parents should be on an isolated island where they can't influenced civilized people with healthy moral values.Instead of census to count people these parents should be public announced they are invading society.To think the public enjoys the circus and pay them to act out.We need a law that people like them can't have children.The dad,Michael ,why he doesn't have a JOB and the Palin husband either.People stop paying for craziness its like a disease.
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