Being pursued by Lindsay Lohan may be some people's idea of a good dream, but for one woman, the ordeal and its aftermath have been a living nightmare.
Tracie Rice, a passenger in the car driven by the mother of Lohan's former personal assistant and chased through the streets of Santa Monica by Lohan just prior to the starlet's bust on DUI and cocaine-possession charges, filed suit against the actress back in August for emotional trauma resulting from her unwitting role in the predawn drama.
Documents filed in Los Angeles Superior County Court last month and released just this week detail the toll of the trauma she claims to have suffered.
While Rice is seeking unspecified damages in her suit, she's also seeking restitution of all medical fees and other expenses that sprang up as a result of her distress. Per her court documents, Rice estimates she has spent upwards of $7,000 on doctor bills since August.
She says that $3,500 alone has been on therapy (in which she has been ponying up $175 per visit to work through her residual terror). Rice has consulted with a medical doctor, to whom she's shelled out $400, and a chiropractor, which cost her $145. She also said she has laid out roughly $150 on prescriptions, as well as $2,000 more in miscellaneous expenses.
Rice, who was the one who made the 911 call alerting Santa Monica police to the Lohan pursuit, says in her filing she originally believed she was being carjacked when an SUV, later determined to be driven by Lohan, began tailing them at high speeds.
Lohan put both Rice and Michele Peck, the driver of the pursued vehicle and mother of the star's former personal assistant, "at extreme risk of death or injury," per court documents, and they were eventually forced to drive directly to a police station, where they were met by officers with guns drawn.
Due to her medical and psychological problems resulting from the incident, Rice claims she lost a job that paid between $60,000 and $75,000 a year.
Lohan worked out a plea deal in the criminal case last year and in November served just 84 minutes of a one-day sentence behind bars. She spent two months in a Utah rehab center and put in 10 days of community service volunteering at a Los Angeles-area American Red Cross.
Meanwhile, despite reports to the contrary, another lawsuit filed against Lohan, this one stemming from an October 2005 Beverly Hills car crash, has not been dropped. Busboy Raymond Ortega, who seeks $200,000 in negligence damages from the actress, simply decided not to include Crossheart Productions Inc., which owned the car Lohan was driving when she smashed into his illegal U-turning van, as a defendant.
The star herself, as well as the Ivy restaurant where she dined—and, Ortega asserts, imbibed—before the smashup remain named in the lawsuit.