Dina Lohan`s Odd Behavior on Dr. Phil Show
VELEZ-MITCHELL: If you thought Lindsay Lohan went off the rails, watch Lindsay`s mother Dina in an interview with Dr. Phil from</s>CBS. DR. PHIL MCGRAW, TALK SHOW HOST: Let`s talk about...</s>DINA LOHAN, LINDSAY`S MOTHER: Are we to camera now? We`re rolling? I`m sorry.</s>MCGRAW: You have come on here and been phony, flitting around and going like that.</s>D. LOHAN: Oh, stop. I`m not flitting around. I`m being scrutinized by you people.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Her ex-husband, Michael Lohan, says Dina`s drunk. Dina says she`s stone-cold sober. So why the bizarre behavior?</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Tonight Lindsay Lohan`s mom, Dina, goes on the offensive after an explosive sit-down interview with Dr. Phil. The interview was done months ago; it`s just coming out now. Dina Lohan, well, she acts a bit bizarre, according to most people. Let`s watch a clip from CBS, and you decide.</s>D. LOHAN: You`re, like, in your little tie and your little shoes. Like...</s>MCGRAW: I`m in my little tie and my little shoes? What the hell does that mean?</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Ooh! Dina says she`s sober, and the interview was taken out of context. Her ex, Michael Lohan, claims to TMZ that his wife was wasted. Who knows? How do you explain her behavior? Straight out to Celeb Buzz editor-in-chief, Dylan Howard. Dylan, what`s the impact of this interview?</s>DYLAN HOWARD, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, CELEB BUZZ: Well, it`s significant. She looks like she`s out of control. She looks like she doesn`t know what`s going on. Even her faculties aren`t there. Hunched over a couch. Leaning towards the interviewer. Sure, it may have been taken out of context by virtue that it is a promo for the full episode that is airing on Monday, but what we see is frightening, and it does nothing to help the reputation of a family that has been under siege here in Hollywood for many years.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Dr. Phil calls Dina Lohan a fraud and that she`s just changing the subject to avoid tough questions. Here`s more from CBS.</s>MCGRAW: What you`re doing is you`re stalling. You`re dodging. You`re deflecting.</s>D. LOHAN: Protecting, Dr. Phil. Protecting.</s>MCGRAW: Let`s not talk about me. Let`s talk about are those cameras on or not? Let`s talk about your shoes. Let`s talk about how good of an interviewer you are. Let`s talk about all of those things. Because I don`t want to talk about the things you want to talk about.</s>D. LOHAN: I want to be you, so I want to interview other people.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you`ve got to wonder, given her daughter`s problems, why she would act that way. Do you have an explanation, Dylan?</s>HOWARD: I don`t. And indeed her relationship with Lindsay has been in sharp focus for many years. You`ll remember that Lindsay Lohan was a teen sensation and moved out to Los Angeles to create her Hollywood career. Moved away from the family home on Long Island. Now, many have accused Lindsay of being enabled by Dina. That Dina once partied with her. Now, that`s not gossip or hearsay. There are photos of those two at very young age going out together. Now, Lindsay Lohan would have to be embarrassed by her mother`s actions here. The question being, why is she even doing the interview in the first place? Dina Lohan is not a celebrity. She`s an A-list celebrity who was catapulted into fame because of the notoriety of her daughter. Now, her daughter doesn`t want her to do interviews. So why is she even sitting down with Dr. Phil? It beggars belief, Jane.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: To that point, Dylan, Lindsay`s in Atlanta right now, filming a movie than none other than Charlie Sheen. What a combo. "Scary Movie 5," indeed. Maybe her life is back on track. She seems to be in a better place than she was when we saw this. You all remember this.</s>LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: I know that I was ordered to go once a week. And it wasn`t, you know, I wasn`t missing classes just -- I would never do anything like that. I was working. Mostly in Morocco. On the trip I was working with children. It wasn`t vacation. It wasn`t some sort of a joke.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Now, I got to ask. It sort of gives me more sympathy for Lindsay, given that this is how her mom is behaving. And then her dad has his own set of problems. He`s served time in prison for a DUI wreck. He`s been arrested for domestic violence more than once. The girlfriend who called cops on him, Kate Major, is now pregnant with his child. Is this family a mess? Do they need to go into some kind of family therapy?</s>HOWARD: You know, the joke is that it`s more dysfunctional than the Manson Family. Now, of course that`s not the case. But in this particular scenario you have Lindsay Lohan trying to resurrect her career against all the odds. Sure, she`s done nothing to help herself. She has been the cause of many of her own problems. But on one hand, you have a mother who`s submitting to interviews in a state that is no state to be doing interviews. And then you have a father, Michael Lohan, who is estranged from her and has his own share of issues. So you`ve got to feel for Lindsay Lohan. But ultimately, though, she`s accountable for her actions. I can tell you one thing, though, Jane, she does not want her parents doing interviews. It was the root cause of her estrangement from father Michael. So there`s no reason why Dina should be sitting down with Dr. Phil for something that was ultimately going to end up to be a catastrophic disaster.</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Parents, do not live through your children. It always turns out badly. Dr. Phil came down hard on Dina over her daughter, Lindsay`s legal troubles. Here`s this from CBS.</s>MCGRAW: We have seen Lindsay dragged into court: `05 car crash, `06 struggles with drugs.</s>D. LOHAN: If she was living in New York, five of them would be obsolete.</s>MCGRAW: You`re missing the point.</s>D. LOHAN: Can I go home now?</s>VELEZ-MITCHELL: Look. I don`t think any of these people are malicious. I`ve talked to Michael Lohan. I just think that they have gotten the fame bug. And it`s almost like anything for attention. If your daughter is struggling, and she doesn`t want you to do interviews, then maybe you should look at yourself in the mirror and say, "Does my behavior basically trickle down to her behavior?" All right. 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