Lindsay Lohan to start rehab Thursday
Posted May 2, 2013 7:56 am.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan is reportedly headed to rehab on Thursday as part of a plea bargain over charges arising from a June car crash.
Lohan agreed to spend three months in a locked rehabilitation facility and undertake 30 days of community labor instead of jail time at a hearing on March 18.
Lohan has been scheduled to check in to the Seafield Center in New York but that plan is reportedly running in to a few hurdles. Several celebrity gossip websites are reporting that Lohan is attempting to stay at Morningside Recovery, a rehab center in Newport Beach, CA.
The plea deal was struck on the first day of a scheduled trial when the 26-year-old Mean Girls actress agreed to plead no contest to charges that she lied to police when she said she was not behind the wheel after her Porsche sports car smashed into a truck on June 8, 2012, in Santa Monica, California.
Lohan, who is still on probation for a 2011 conviction for stealing a necklace, had faced the prospect of being sent to jail if she was convicted on the latest charges, or if she was deemed to have violated the terms of her 2011 probation.
The actress has been jailed or placed under house arrest for short periods numerous times since 2007, including three times in 2011. She has also spent at least five periods in rehab in the last six years.
