Lindsay Lohan's father has given up trying to force his daughter into rehab by releasing taped frantic phone calls with her to the media, after his ex-wife DINA called his actions "unforgivable".
Michael Lohan maintains he went public with the phone tapes after repeated attempts to convince his daughter she needed counselling for an alleged addiction to prescription drugs, but his media campaign drew harsh criticism from family members, Lohan's lawyer and the actress herself.
And now Michael Lohan has promised there will be no more tapes released.
He tells Life & Style magazine, "I will not release another audiotape about Lindsay. I did it because I wanted Lindsay to know how I felt when I heard that tape. When I get a phone call at two, three, four or five in the morning from my daughter and she’s in dire straits, I get very concerned."
The damning tapes, which Lohan played for a series of media agencies, included one on which Lindsay sobbed, "No one cares about me."
On another, Dina, Lindsay's mom, talked about Lindsay "cutting herself and hurting herself” and revealing the extent of the actress' romance with Heath Ledger, who died of a drug overdose in 2008.
Dina Lohan took aim at her ex for releasing the tapes, saying, "The tapes were from a long time ago. For a father to stoop this low is unforgivable."
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