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dixiewolf Lindsay Lohan Admits Bulimia BattleWednesday Jan 04, 2006 8:00am EST
By Jon Warech and Stephen M. Silverman
While Lindsay Lohan, admitted to a Miami hospital Monday night after suffering a severe asthma attack, is now "resting comfortably," a source close to the actress tells PEOPLE, an explosive interview with the
Mean Girls star is set to hit newsstands Wednesday – lifting the curtain on her self-confessed bulimia, drug use and emotional wreckage over her relationships with her volatile father and her first boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama.
"I was sick," Lohan, 19, admits to Vanity Fair magazine, according to excerpts published in the New York Post. "I had people sit me down and say, 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself.'"
In solving her bulimia, she credits
Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels with staging an intervention after she hosted the show. "I just started bawling. I knew I had a problem, and I couldn't admit it," Lohan says. "I saw that
SNL after I did it. My arms were disgusting. I had no arms."
Of her look, which she says scared her when she saw photos of herself: "My sister, she was scared. My brother called me, crying."
She also says that she used drugs "a little," then quickly adds: "I've gotten that out of my system. ... I don't want people to think that I've done ... you know what I mean? It's kind of a sore subject."
The Post reports that Vanity Fair was contacted by Lohan's publicist to try to have the references to drug use removed from the story.
In her romantic life, she confesses to smothering Valderrama and pushing their relationship to the brink, because "I didn't have anyone (else) to go to" with all her problems, including those with her father, currently serving jail time for assault on a family member.
Regarding reports of a relationship with Jared Leto, all she tells Vanity Fair is, "We're great friends."
As for her current hospitalization, Lohan celebrated New Year's Eve in Miami, hosting a party at Prive Nightclub when the asthma attack occurred, said her publicist, Leslie Sloane. Sloane added that Florida's humidity may have contributed to the condition of the actress, who has suffered from asthma since childhood.
Lohan is set to begin shooting her new film,
Chapter 27, in two weeks. The movie, about John Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, stars Lohan as a Lennon fan who befriends Chapman (played by Leto) just days before he assassinates the musician outside his New York apartment building.
I knew there was a problem there... I have a degree in Nutrition, and you do NOT see almost overnight weightloss without some sort of a disorder accompanying it.
Nicole Ritchie is really out of control though.
She is literally GOING to have a heart attack bc of the lack of food or something if someone doesn't step in. I mean, she is little... SIT ON HER and MAKE her eat!