In a new interview, Lindsay Lohan admits that her irresponsibility landed her in jail, but her wild days are behind her, nypost.com reports.
"I was irresponsible. And I'm not making excuses," the 24-year-old star tells Vanity Fair in its latest issue.
What about the court-ordered, drug and alcohol counseling sessions she skipped? "I have to support myself. I have to pay for my apartment. I have to pay for food," Lohan said, explaining why she didn't attend the sessions.
"People root for me and say they want me to work, but then everyone's against me."
And the infamous partying? "These were my college years . . . but they were in the public eye. I was irresponsible. I was experimenting," she said. "I was doing certain things that people do 10 times more of when they're in college."
She said someone should have given her more "structure" when she hit it so big so early.
"I didn't have any structure. In the beginning, I had structure, and then I lost all the structure in my life. I think a lot of it was because when I was doing my first slew of movies, it was very go-go, and I had a lot of responsibility, and I think just the second I didn't have [structure] anymore -- I was 18, 19 -- with a ton of money."
Lohan rips into her wayward dad, Michael, for not being there for her family, saying, "I think if anyone should be looked at medically it's him . . . He has such a big chemical imbalance at this point because of all the things he's done to himself."
"I want my career back," Lohan said. "I know that I'm a damn good actress, and it's been my passion since I was a child, and I know that when I care about something, I put 100 percent and more into it."
Lohan said many of the stories in the tabloids are made up. For example, she insisted, she has never been hooked on prescription drugs.
"I've never abused prescription drugs," Lohan said. "I never have -- never in my life. I have no desire to. That's not who I am.
"I've admitted to the things that I've done -- to, you know, dabbling in certain things and trying things 'cause I was young and curious and thought it was like, OK, 'cause other people were doing it and other people put it in front of me. And I see what happened in my life because of it.
"I'm a completely different person now," she said.
