As someone who has worked with multiple treatment centers and thousands of addicts across the country over the last decade, it was not surprising to see that she was sentenced to some jail time for violating probation. It’s a common occurrence. What was suprising to me at first was that her (temporary) new lawyer, Robert Shapiro, took her on as a client. He claimed she was going to comply with everything and he put her in a drug rehab or sober house that he founded or was connected to somehow.
If the reports were true about her financial problems, I wondered how she was going to pay him, as I assume he commands a high retainer and hourly rate. I wasn’t sure if he was doing it because he genuinely cared about her given the situation with losing his sone to addiction, or if he was trying to leverage her problems to benefit himself in some way, such as announcing she was in HIS program, etc. Maybe he wanted her to become a spokesperson for that treatment center after completing her jail time? Then reports surfaced this morning that he resigned as her lawyer last night. Did she refuse to get help or did she just not want to help him? Who knows for now, and I doubt the whole truth will ever be made public – just a lot of speculation and rumor (not unlike what is happening here).
One thing is certain for me, that is if she had gone to a truly successful addiction treatment program in the first place, much of the drama (and of course the probation violation) would have been avoided.
Tags: addiction treatment, drug rehab, Linsday Lohan, probation violation, Robert Shapiro, treatment program