Just like Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky, Princess Diana and Amy Winehouse, Lindsay Lohan is a woman who was, for a long time, turned inside out for sport – by the media, by her fans, by her own mother. World-famous by 18 after starring in The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday and Mean Girls – a Disney princess under a curse – Lohan suffered all the projected humiliation and fury the public, through their paparazzi avatars, could heap on her. The tabloids called her La Vida Lohan (a play on la vida loca – “the crazy life”). And yet, she has, if not thrived, survived.

She is not the serious dramatic actress she should be – I would like to see her Medea, her Lady Macbeth – and she is not rich. But she is alive at 39, she has a child and she is working, which means she is sober. (I say no mo

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