Dina Lohan visited NBC's 'Today Show' this morning after spending time at the Betty Ford Center, where her daughter Lindsay Lohan is back in rehab. Dina called the facility "life-changing" for Lindsay and an "amazing place."
Matt Lauer asked Dina, who spent two weeks in family sessions at the clinic, about Lindsay's condition. "Happy, relaxed. She's just a different person," Dina answered. "She's been in a couple facilities, but this one, to me, has really changed her. They get into your psyche and your family and they bring the problem to the surface."
See Dina Lohan on 'The Today Show' [interview starts at 3:15 mark]:
Lauer and Lohan sparred the last time Dina stopped by 'Today.' "Dina felt ambushed by Matt," a family friend told PopEater after the August appearance. "She was surprised how many tough questions he asked."
Today, Lauer grilled the 48-year-old Dina again, though the air was devoid of contention: "When the judge said [Lindsay] needed to go here and sent her, he said to her in no uncertain terms, 'You're an addict,'" Lauer said. "Does Lindsay fully get that?"
"Yes," Dina answered. "And this teaches you that you are, and she's young. I thank God that he didn't incarcerate her because that wouldn't have helped her. And being so young, admitting that can only help her sobriety in the future."
Dina also said she was comfortable with the concept that her 24-year-old daughter is an addict. "We take it one day at a time. Addiction is difficult. I don't know, I don't have a crystal ball. I pray hard."
Dina says Lindsay wants to start her own rehabilitation facilities for other young people. She also acknowledged her daughter's aim to return to film.
Lauer asked if Dina would encourage another early release for Lindsay or if the full time in rehab was due. "Lindsay wants to stay," Dina said. "She's learning the trigger points and why she turns to drugs or addiction. It's a lifelong journey."
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(FILES) Dated July 20, 2010 filed photo shows Lindsay Lohan arrives to begin her 90 day jail sentence at the Beverly Hills Courthouse, California. Troubled Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan has failed a drugs test and could face being thrown back behind bars for breaching her bail terms, reports said September 17, 2010. The star, who was released from rehab last month after serving just three weeks of a six-month jail sentence over a drunk-driving case, failed the test for cocaine last week, said People magazine and the TMZ celebrity news agency. AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
FILE - In this July 20, 2010 file photo, Lindsay Lohan listens during a court hearing in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/ Los Angeles Times, Al Seib, pool)
Lindsay Lohan is seen shopping on Robertson Blvd. on September 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles - September, 15 2010 Los Angeles, CA United States September 15, 2010 Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com To license this image (61684119), contact WireImage.com
Lindsay Lohan is seen shopping on Robertson Blvd. on September 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles - September, 15 2010 Los Angeles, CA United States September 15, 2010 Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com To license this image (61684114), contact WireImage.com
Lindsay Lohan is seen shopping on Robertson Blvd. on September 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles - September, 15 2010 Los Angeles, CA United States September 15, 2010 Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com To license this image (61684124), contact WireImage.com
Lindsay Lohan is seen shopping on Robertson Blvd. on September 15, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles - September, 15 2010 Los Angeles, CA United States September 15, 2010 Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage.com To license this image (61684111), contact WireImage.com
Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Lindsay Lohan tried on a couple different hats, but left her bra at home. The star was dressed in black, on Wednesday, September 15, 2010 X17online.com exclusive
Great, rehab is life changing, lets see how she does once she is released. Of course in Dina's eyes Lindsay can do no wrong and has no problems. Mama, you are a big part of her problems. Stay out of her life and maybe, just maybe Lindsay can get better. I'm not betting my house on it though.
Dina Lohan could probably win Worst Mother and Stage Mother of The Year award as she is oblivious to the fact that SHE is probably the biggest factor in the ruination of her daughter Lindsay and the girls career. She is a predator of the worst kind and I only hope that being in rehab will wake Lindsay up to that fact and bid mommy dearest a fond adieu when she gets out of rehab. I wish some really good family would take Lindsay in a help put her on a good path.
That all sounds great joan, but Lindsey is a 24 year old grown woman! She seems/acts 14 and looks 40. I was maarried with two kids at that age! By the way, I see Dina hit the plastic surgeons before her "performance" on the Today Show! Don't you just love the extra high arch of her eyebrows? I like what she said but is it honest on her part? If she hasn't admitted HER part in Lindsey's fall, then she is just spouting words she knows will please the "crowds". You know, an act. She just seems a mess, not really with the reality of it all. I hope Lindsey goes to another state for the rest of her recovery after she is released next year. Dina, in my opinion, is not going to be a good person to have around for awhile. I wish them all good luck, but I'm not holding my breath. Dina doesn't know how to be a Mother and not an enabler. We'll see.
The fact that Dina Lohan would believe a short period of rehab would transform the life of an addict is overwhelming evidence of her ignorance and her disengagement from the life-threatening issues her daughter still confronts. She, herself, needs help in order to stop being one of the worst parents a young woman like Lindsay could have. The media is partially to blame for the dumbing down of America by giving credence to horrible parents like Dina by giving them a forum to broadcast their naive and uninformed opinions.
Why is this such news. This girl is not a big star. While she has more cred than the Kadashians and Paris Hilton, she is not a major star. I care nothing about her. She had opportunities that many young girls would have loved to have, but she is spoiled and that is the bottom line. Whether she is really a drug addict, don't know-but it makes for good press. Does anyone really feel she is a great actress. I don't. She just is a girl that had some lucky breaks and has a terrible father and mother. They see dollar signs when they look at her.
Matt Lauer needs to get a life, Dina Lohan needs to get a life and stop bloodsucking Lindsey. Oh, now she's changed, she gets "it". I doubt "it". Both mother and daughter are pathetic creatures of the night, always looking for the next attempt at celebrity snatching.
If it's true that Lindsey Lohan has changed it's because she is away from her mother, the blood sucking parasite. Whenever you see her mother she's posing having been a New York Rockette dancer. She's trying to relive her previous youthful life through Lindsey.
Our country needs more stories with happy endings. It truly would be good to see Lohan beat addiction. She has more issue than addiction, though. We will see where this heads...but I ..for one...always enjoy seeing a person turn thier life around. I have afeeling that with her...she will fall again...but if she can avoid prison she may finally win. She is so lucky to have the chances she has had. Let's hope all her breaks don't end of for nothing. I wish everyone get the breaks she did...but that is not reality...but still...I don't resent her for getting the chances so many others should also get. It is not her fault the world is not fair. She is very lucky she is not me...or she would have been locked away and had the key thrown away long ago.
I think the biggest change is that Dina has finally admitted that LiLo is an addict. That will make LiLo's recovery a much better possibility. Dina was probably the worst of all the people that enabled LiLo in her quest for more booze and drugs.
Why is the Today show waisting time on Lohan? I don't care what is doing or what any of her family or friends has to say or "update" us on her. Get to some real news or something that is actually intersting.
Lindsay only has one problem.... Dina... and she wants to open a facility to help young addicts... pleeeze nobody believes your BS Lindsay.., Well just your messed up mother. You should be in JAIL being treated like the criminal you are... Blah Blah Blah thats all we hear from you and your white trash family.... GO AWAY....
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Great, rehab is life changing, lets see how she does once she is released. Of course in Dina's eyes Lindsay can do no wrong and has no problems. Mama, you are a big part of her problems. Stay out of her life and maybe, just maybe Lindsay can get better. I'm not betting my house on it though.
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Dina Lohan could probably win Worst Mother and Stage Mother of The Year award as she is oblivious to the fact that SHE is probably the biggest factor in the ruination of her daughter Lindsay and the girls career. She is a predator of the worst kind and I only hope that being in rehab will wake Lindsay up to that fact and bid mommy dearest a fond adieu when she gets out of rehab. I wish some really good family would take Lindsay in a help put her on a good path.
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That all sounds great joan, but Lindsey is a 24 year old grown woman! She seems/acts 14 and looks 40. I was maarried with two kids at that age! By the way, I see Dina hit the plastic surgeons before her "performance" on the Today Show! Don't you just love the extra high arch of her eyebrows? I like what she said but is it honest on her part? If she hasn't admitted HER part in Lindsey's fall, then she is just spouting words she knows will please the "crowds". You know, an act. She just seems a mess, not really with the reality of it all. I hope Lindsey goes to another state for the rest of her recovery after she is released next year. Dina, in my opinion, is not going to be a good person to have around for awhile. I wish them all good luck, but I'm not holding my breath. Dina doesn't know how to be a Mother and not an enabler. We'll see.
Hopefully rehab is life changing for Dina "The Money Pit" Lohan as well.
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The fact that Dina Lohan would believe a short period of rehab would transform the life of an addict is overwhelming evidence of her ignorance and her disengagement from the life-threatening issues her daughter still confronts. She, herself, needs help in order to stop being one of the worst parents a young woman like Lindsay could have. The media is partially to blame for the dumbing down of America by giving credence to horrible parents like Dina by giving them a forum to broadcast their naive and uninformed opinions.
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OH PLEASE!!!! SUCH A CROCK!!!!
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Why is this such news. This girl is not a big star. While she has more cred than the Kadashians and Paris Hilton, she is not a major star. I care nothing about her. She had opportunities that many young girls would have loved to have, but she is spoiled and that is the bottom line. Whether she is really a drug addict, don't know-but it makes for good press. Does anyone really feel she is a great actress. I don't. She just is a girl that had some lucky breaks and has a terrible father and mother. They see dollar signs when they look at her.
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Sooooo who really cares. Been kinda nice not hearing about or seeing her face in the media.
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IS THIS NEWS THIS IS SILLY WHO CARES!!!!
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Who Cares!
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Linsey is hot babe and good actres leeve hur alone I like hur
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It won't be long before she is back on the junk. Her and Charlie Sheen should hook up. They'd be the perfect couple of losers...
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Matt Lauer needs to get a life, Dina Lohan needs to get a life and stop bloodsucking Lindsey. Oh, now she's changed, she gets "it". I doubt "it". Both mother and daughter are pathetic creatures of the night, always looking for the next attempt at celebrity snatching.
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If it's true that Lindsey Lohan has changed it's because she is away from her mother, the blood sucking parasite. Whenever you see her mother she's posing having been a New York Rockette dancer. She's trying to relive her previous youthful life through Lindsey.
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The Today Show continues its amazing run as the number 1 fluff interview show on television.
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Dina Lohan should hang out with Kate Gosselin. They could certainly be BFF's.
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Our country needs more stories with happy endings. It truly would be good to see Lohan beat addiction. She has more issue than addiction, though. We will see where this heads...but I ..for one...always enjoy seeing a person turn thier life around. I have afeeling that with her...she will fall again...but if she can avoid prison she may finally win. She is so lucky to have the chances she has had. Let's hope all her breaks don't end of for nothing. I wish everyone get the breaks she did...but that is not reality...but still...I don't resent her for getting the chances so many others should also get. It is not her fault the world is not fair. She is very lucky she is not me...or she would have been locked away and had the key thrown away long ago.
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I think the biggest change is that Dina has finally admitted that LiLo is an addict. That will make LiLo's recovery a much better possibility. Dina was probably the worst of all the people that enabled LiLo in her quest for more booze and drugs.
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Why is the Today show waisting time on Lohan? I don't care what is doing or what any of her family or friends has to say or "update" us on her. Get to some real news or something that is actually intersting.
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Lindsay only has one problem.... Dina... and she wants to open a facility to help young addicts... pleeeze nobody believes your BS Lindsay.., Well just your messed up mother. You should be in JAIL being treated like the criminal you are... Blah Blah Blah thats all we hear from you and your white trash family.... GO AWAY....
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