p2pnet news view | Music:- A judge has refused to dismiss part of a lawsuit against singer Lindsay Lohan over a 2005 accident in which her car collided with a van.

The California Highway Patrol decided busboy Raymundo Ortega caused the crash by making an illegal U-turn, but he sued Lohan and is now demanding at least $200,000 in damages, says Associated Press, going on:.

“Ortega’s suit contends that Lohan was fleeing paparazzi and was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash.”

Last month, “Lohan agreed to spend a day in jail and complete a drug treatment program after pleading guilty or no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges stemming from arrests earlier this year,” says AP.

Paris Hilton generated the same kinds of headlines as Lohan when she spent a brief period in jail for drunk-driving after her licence had been suspended.

Both girls – because that’s what they are – received special treatment due to their celebrity status, said numerous reports.

They probably did. But that’s not the problem.

The problem is: they’re products of the venal corporate entertainment money machine and alcohol and drugs are just part of the deal.

Is living in fishbowl under constant pressure to perform, perform, perform any kind of life? Getting smashed and/or stoned is, for many people in the public eye, the only way to release the non-stop pressure.

Lohan, and all the other celebrities young and old who get land in trouble because of booze and drugs are victims of a wholly corrupt system which insists they play a role.

They’re encouraged to be larger than life. It’s good for bidnes.

“In a statement, Lohan said: ‘It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs’,” says the BBC.

Addiction is a disease, not a social problem, and dealing with it is a hard road to ride for anyone.

But it’s particularly tough for kids.

Jon Newton - p2pnet

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Also See:
Associated Press – Lohan Crash Lawsuit Will Go to Trial, September 11, 2007
BBC – Lohan in new drink-driving claim, September 12, 2007

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