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Lindsay Lohan Rushed to the Hospital
By Scott Ferguson
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Lindsay Lohan can't take the heat. While filming Georgia
Rule, Lohan was overcome and had to be rushed to a Los
Angeles hospital, according to the program The Insider
and reported online by CBS News. The verdict as to why
Lindsay Lohan almost passed out? At the LA hospital,
the singer/actress was treated for overheating and dehydration
for several hours, given a Vitamin B-12 shot, and released.
According to CBS News, Leslie Sloan Zelnick, the publicist
to Lindsay Lohan, told The Insider that Lohan would
return to the set of Georgia Rule tomorrow. It's no
surprise that she was overcome by the heat considering
that, on Tuesday, temperatures on the set of Georgia
Rule reached 105 degrees. Lindsay Lohan was filming
that day in the 105 degree heat for twelve hours, a
situation that could have sent anyone to the hospital.
Georgia Rule co-stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman.
This isn't the first time that Lindsay Lohan has been
rushed to the hospital. As reported by E Online, just
this January, Lohan was rushed off to two separate hospitals
on two separate occasions, the first time in London,
after she cut herself on a broken teacup, and the second
time after Lohan had an asthma attack in Miami. London,
Miami, L.A. - Lohan's seen her share of hospitals in
2006. And last October, she was taken to the hospital
when she crashed her car into a van trying to escape
the prying eye of the paparazzi. And this isn't the
first time a set has contributed to Lohan's health problems.
A year and a half ago, Lindsay Lohan went to Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in L.A. when, according to E Online she
became "overtired and working [her]self to death"
on the set of Herbie: Fully Loaded.
Lindsay Lohan has been facing off against her own image
as a party girl in recent months, telling Harper's Bazaar,
"I'm in this career for the longevity of it, not
just for doing everything too fast and then running
out of steam."
Now, People Magazine today seemed to imply that some
of those partying ways may have led to this week's Lindsay
Lohan overheat on the set of Georgia Rule. The online
version of the magazine quotes a friend of Lohan's as
saying that the night before the hospitalization, Lohan
was at the Chateau Marmont and then at a nightclub called
Guy's. People quotes an observer at Guy's as saying,
"She was definitely partying. She wasn't over the
top, but having a great time."
Don't worry. Lohan's publicist, Sloan-Zelnick told
People, "She is fine." and another source
told the magazine that Lindsay Lohan is back at her
hotel resting. And enjoying the air-conditioning and
staying hydrated, no doubt.
Lohan, who's only 20 years old, shot to fame as a child
actress in the Disney remakes The Parent Trap and Freaky
Friday. But Lindsay Lohan's real break through role
was as Cady in the 2004 hit Mean Girls. Since then she's
been tabloid fodder and starred in Herbie: Fully Loaded,
A Prairie Home Companion, and Just My Luck. Lindsay
Lohan will next be seen in Emilio Estevez' Bobby and
Chapter 27, in which Jared Leto will play Mark David
Chapman. After Georgia Rule, which legendary comedy
director Garry Marshall is helming, Lindsay Lohan will
move to A Woman of No Importance with Sean Bean and
Annette Bening.
[Additional Sources: People, The Insider, CBS News, E Online, IMDB]
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