Interview with prescreened questions was a mess and so was Lindsay Lohan’s mom

Sep 18, 2012 07:46 GMT  ·  By
Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan’s mother, embarrasses herself during Dr. Phil interview
   Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan’s mother, embarrasses herself during Dr. Phil interview

Last week, Dr. Phil teased the upcoming episode of his show with a video that soon became the talk of all town: showing a giggling, mumbling and overly emotional Dina Lohan, it made it seem as if she was drunk or on drugs. That impression was confirmed last night.

On Monday night, the full interview aired and, contrary to what Dina said after the teaser hit the net, it did paint her in a very negative light.

Though conducted at 10 in the morning, it made it crystal clear that she was on something: Dina kept asking whether the cameras were rolling, laughed uncontrollably and wept at the drop of a hat, and visibly tried to dodge questions her team had pre-approved.

The interview (or failed attempt at it, as Vulture describes it) kicked off with a mention from Dr. Phil that it was Lohan’s team who reached out to him for an interview that would set the record straight on her and finally present her to the public as she truly is.

One topic that should have been discussed – and to which Dina had agreed on – was her relationship with ex-husband Michael Lohan and the abuse she suffered at his hands.

Embedded at the end of this article are two videos: one is a supercut of the most awkward moments, courtesy of Vulture, while the other is a segment from the show, in which Dr. Phil tries to interview Dina but fails.

“While little was actually revealed about the domestic abuse Lohan was apparently booked to discuss, we learned a whole heck of a lot about her nervous ticks. Like constantly asking if the cameras are rolling. Yep, still rolling!” Vulture writes.

“Dr. Phil gets increasingly frustrated with Lohan's mumbling, giggling, fist-bumping, and yelling ‘Cut!’ to camera, yet he pressed on, determined to get at least one of his (apparently prescreened) questions answered,” the same media outlet notes.

In the end, Dr. Phil loses his cool and makes one final attempt at reasoning with Lohan. He fails in that too.

As we also reported a short while ago, Dina said in a statement that the only reason why she seemed drunk in the preview video was because she’d been edited to appear that way.

She insisted she was “fine” and that she “didn’t care” what people thought of her.