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Los Angeles - Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to be released from a rehab centre on Monday into another year of uncertainty.
After spending three months in treatment programmes at Betty Ford, experts say Lohan has a good shot at recovery. Provided, of course, that she wants it, changes her party girl lifestyle and remains in continued therapy.
If a New Year's Day message posted on her Twitter account is any indication, the Mean Girls star seems ready to do that. "Today is the first day of the rest of my life," it said. '``The future depends on what we do in the present.' -Mahatma Gandhi... One step at a time..."
It won't be easy, but she has "a fighting chance", says Jeffrey C Friedman, a substance abuse counsellor at Cottonwood Tucson and a recovering heroin addict who has been sober for 24 years. "It would just be a question, is she going to be willing to continue to make the sacrifices she needs to? For all of us, it's a lifelong process."
Dealing with the repercussions of her previous actions won't just confront Lohan in criminal court. She also faces a civil trial in which a woman and three young men accused her of wrongdoing for a high-speed chase that ended with Lohan's arrest in Santa Monica in 2007.
Career-wise, any resurgence appears intertwined with her continued recovery.
Gone is her role as porn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic, and no replacement acting gig has been announced. But those connected with her clothing enterprise say Lohan, 24, will leave rehab poised to spearhead a fall fashion line.
The actress' lawyer and other representatives did not return messages seeking comment on her post-rehab plans.
After spending three months in treatment programmes at Betty Ford, experts say Lohan has a good shot at recovery. Provided, of course, that she wants it, changes her party girl lifestyle and remains in continued therapy.
If a New Year's Day message posted on her Twitter account is any indication, the Mean Girls star seems ready to do that. "Today is the first day of the rest of my life," it said. '``The future depends on what we do in the present.' -Mahatma Gandhi... One step at a time..."
It won't be easy, but she has "a fighting chance", says Jeffrey C Friedman, a substance abuse counsellor at Cottonwood Tucson and a recovering heroin addict who has been sober for 24 years. "It would just be a question, is she going to be willing to continue to make the sacrifices she needs to? For all of us, it's a lifelong process."
Dealing with the repercussions of her previous actions won't just confront Lohan in criminal court. She also faces a civil trial in which a woman and three young men accused her of wrongdoing for a high-speed chase that ended with Lohan's arrest in Santa Monica in 2007.
Career-wise, any resurgence appears intertwined with her continued recovery.
Gone is her role as porn star Linda Lovelace in a biopic, and no replacement acting gig has been announced. But those connected with her clothing enterprise say Lohan, 24, will leave rehab poised to spearhead a fall fashion line.
The actress' lawyer and other representatives did not return messages seeking comment on her post-rehab plans.
