Rehabbed Lindsay: I'm Not an Addict

Thu., Apr. 19, 2007 9:39 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

Lindsay Lohan is opening up about her adventures in Wonderland.

But despite a well-chronicled month in the posh rehab facility, and announcing that she has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings for more than a year, the Mean Girls star tells Allure that the A-word is not for her.

"I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict," she says in the latest issue. Instead, Lohan says she's taking a suggestion from her therapist and describes her 30-day stint as simply a means to "take care of my personal health."

The 20-year-old tells the magazine that she woke up one morning to find her house overwhelmed by paparazzi, both on the ground and in the air, and that the secluded, shutterbug-free grounds of the Laurel Canyon treatment center appealed to her sense of privacy.

"I just felt safe," she says. "I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there. For a month. It was great."

Lohan describes her digs as "a quiet room, all white, with parquet, and it was different!"

Still, the star—who was routinely criticized for logging considerable, well-photographed amounts of time outside the facility's gates during her January tenure—says that going to rehab was something she was reluctant to do.

"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said I would die before I went to rehab."

As for the rumor that made the Internet rounds upon her admittance to Wonderland—that she sent a text message to boy-about-town Brody Jenner saying she couldn't stand being without "sex and McDonald's"—Lohan says:

"I'm a sexual person—everyone is, I think. And once a month I'm a McDonald's person. Everything in moderation."

Lohan also discusses serving as a role model for her three siblings, 19-year-old Michael, 13-year-old Ali and 10-year-old Dakota, saying that she often feels "like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family."

"When my friends and family are around me, I feel like they're safe. The craziest things can happen, but it's okay."

Meanwhile, Lohan is easing back into her work schedule. She was in Japan last week to shoot a new campaign for Jill Stuart, for which she's the spokesmodel.

However, according to Life & Style, Lohan has pulled out of costarring with Keira Knightley in the Dylan Thomas biopic The Best Time of Our Lives, a film that was not only written by Knightley's mother, Sharman MacDonald, but which is reportedly set to begin production in London this weekend.

The glossy blamed a negotiation snafu on her alleged departure; Lohan's camp has yet to comment on the validity of the report.

If true, it would be the second project Lohan has bowed out of since emerging from rehab, having previously exited the Annette Bening film A Woman of No Importance.

Lohan will next grace the screen in the family dramedy Georgia Rule with Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman, due out May 11.