Lindsay Lohan Relieved, Aims for Restored Acting Career
Lindsay Lohan feels relieved and happy to move forward with her acting career after several years of legal problems after a Los Angeles judge said she had completed requirements for formal probation.
"It's a tremendous weight that I feel like it's been lifted off my shoulders and I feel really grateful, and happy, and ready to move forward. It's been several years, so I did what I had to do and it takes time to realize that but it's a good day," she told TMZ on Thursday.
"I think that I became more of a celebrity and I'd rather kind of bring the focus back to what it is that I love to do and what it is I originally started in this business for, which is acting," she said. "And I think that with the help of this being in my past and the same focus, that's something I can achieve."
Lohan was taken off probation for a 2007 Driving Under the Influence case and must obey all laws for an additional 2 ½ years as part of informal probation over a necklace theft incident in 2011.
Lohan told the publication in a phone interview that what prompted her to complete the requirements after not being able to do so previously - which included cleaning at a morgue and counseling sessions - was a reassessment of her acting career.
"I think that, first of all growing up and kind just sitting back and seeing that I had worked so hard to be something which I wanted to be - which is in this industry - and I just kind of let it all fall apart. So kind of sitting back and looking at that and saying ok, this is not what I signed up for, like wake up," she said.
Lohan also said another contributing factor for completing probation requirements was that the judge handling her case understood that she was used to working in a structured environment from her experience of being on movie sets.
As for her career plans, Lohan is set to play Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming TV movie that will be filmed in Canada.
She says she has long abandoned the clubbing lifestyle, which the judge in the probation case urged her to stay away from.
"I find it very interesting that people are still attached to the clubbing aspect when I haven't been clubbing in I cannot tell you how long," she said.
