HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Michael Lohan believes his daughter's life is in jeopardy due to an addiction to prescription drugs.
"There's nothing left in her," Lindsay Lohan's father said during an appearance Friday on the Maury Povich Show. "I was out in L.A. with her about 3 weeks ago when she got robbed. She called me up at 3:30 in the morning. She said, 'Daddy, come out here.' I flew out and got her out of the house. She was in an apartment, in a hotel actually, when I just, I couldn't even look at her. I had to go outside and cry and when I hugged her, it's just a hollow, hollow person."
"I hate to speak out publicly like this about Lindsay, but it's for all the parents and all the teens out there," he continued. "I've seen what it's done. I've seen what it's done to a talented, talented girl that can't even make a movie anymore. I mean, look at The Parent Trap and Mean Girls and Freaky Friday. Look at her then and look at (her) now."
When reached by the talk-show program, the 23-year-old star's rep refused to comment on the prescription drug allegations. At one point, Povich also pointed out that ex-wife Dina has often criticized Lohan for speaking about his daughter in the media.
"Well, you know, number one, I have nothing bad to say about Dina. Dina is the mother of my kids. She does things her way, I do things my way," he responded. "I'm a drug counselor. I put four kids into rehab this month. I'm a recovering alcoholic myself. I went to Bible College, I became a minister and I believe in helping people learn from my experience."
Lohan also said that he his worried about his 15-year-old daughter Ali following in Lindsay's footsteps, particularly since he's seen her hanging out in clubs despite being underage.
"You know, at the beginning, I believed that Ali was a saving grace in Lindsay's life because Lindsay wouldn't party around Ali," he said. "She wouldn't do this, she wouldn't do that, and they leaned on each other and Ali is a very mature young lady. However, when she's in these clubs and she's around this kind of an element, I begin to worry and wonder too."
When the subject of Lindsay's on-again, off-again relationship with Samantha Ronson came up, Lohan admitted he originally had the wrong idea about the celebrity DJ.
"At the beginning, I was getting fed information that Samantha was a bad, you know, she was bad for Lindsay's life and I believed some of the things that were said to me because they were coming from people in my family and close to me," explained Lohan. "I'm wrong. Samantha, I apologize 100 percent. You know, maybe by Lindsay going to the clubs with Samantha, she made more money and that's the way I was looking at it. I was looking at it from the wrong perspective. Samantha was actually helping, she wanted Lindsay to get away from all the negative things that she was doing."
Lohan then looked into the camera and made a plea to help his daughter.
"Lindsay, I love you with all my heart and I don't care if it's the death of me. I'm not going to bury you, you're gonna bury me before this is over," he said. "I'm gonna do anything and everything I have to to save your life, whether mom likes it, the public likes it, or anyone. I'm going to take all the steps I can to help you cuz I want you to have your life back.
"I'm not going to see you destroy yourself anymore. People grope at you when you're not in the right state of mind. You're my daughter honey, and I can't do this. I can't do it anymore. I'm just not gonna see you fall."
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