At the height of her fame in the aughts, there wasn’t a day that the former child star wasn’t making headlines.
It could be that today’s world is kinder to its young stars.
“She was always being used by people, treated like meat by the paparazzi,” an old friend of Lohan’s who has known her since her early teens told The Post.
“We all contributed to what happened and we didn’t stop it.
Then, in May, a shocking tweet from Chrissy Teigen, who’s been criticized for her past online bullying behavior, was suddenly unearthed.
Lohan has so far not commented on Teigen’s bullying, but mom Dina told The Post on Friday that the 2011 post upset everyone in the family.
Lohan started modeling as a toddler, and at 11 years old she filmed Nancy Meyers’ remake of “The Parent Trap” in 1998, deftly playing twins — one British, one American — opposite Dennis Quaid and the late Natasha Richardson.
“When Lindsay was growing up, Dina would take her for her modeling, and when she was eight she got ‘Another World,’” he told The Post.
Lohan’s old friend was around as her fame came crashing down on her like a sledgehammer at 17.
In 2007, Lohan was twice convicted of drunk driving, once for drug use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay.
Michael — who had his own publicized legal woes — told The Post: “I’m really proud of Lindsay in all aspects of her personal and professional life.
It was after years of being hounded by paparazzi and battling addiction that Lohan practically withdrew from acting in the early 2010s and moved abroad, splitting her time between the UAE and Europe.
To those who know Lohan, she really had no choice, they say.
“I believe things happen for a reason,” Lohan later said of her struggles.
She will film her Netflix project, which is described as being in the same vein as Goldie Hawn’s 1987 comedy “Overboard,” in November.
She said, ‘mommy, I’m ready to do movies again, I want to do what I love and what makes me happy.’” She also said that Lohan is keen to try her hand at directing.