LINDSAY LOHAN BLAMES DRUGS ON DAD

Former party girl Lindsay Lohan is blaming "work stress" for the substance abuse problems that landed her in rehab last year. The Hollywood actress, who spent last summer at a Utah rehabilitation center, also claims she used alcohol and drugs to escape from the emotional pain brought on by being estranged from her father Michael, who at the time was in jail. Lohan, who reunited with her dad in rehab, tells Paper magazine, "I had a lot going on in my life and that was a way of hiding from it. "I hadn't seen my dad. I had a lot of work stress because I was constantly working and never took time to stop."Everything was go-go-go, and the easiest thing was to run away from it, going out and drinking at night. You know, you don't have to think when you let go sometimes. "But I didn't realize it was getting in the way of my work, what I've worked for my whole life."