Lindsay Lohan had
words for her father on her blog. The 22-year-old
actress lashed out at father Michael by calling him a
"public embarrassment" and a "bully" in a MySpace blog
entry posted Thursday. Earlier in the week, Michael
said in an interview with E! that Lohan gal pal
Samantha Ronson was "using" his daughter.
Lohan's
publicist, Leslie Sloane-Zelnik, confirmed that the post by
Lohan was legitimate.
"If you have
something to say to me, say it to my face -- that's what
I have believed my whole life -- don't be a coward and say
it to others first, let alone all the media in the
world," Lohan wrote.
The father and
daughter have publicly quarreled for years. Lohan said in
the dash-happy blog post that she tried to make things work
in hopes "of having a father again" and "wanting
things to change" despite what her mother and siblings
have gone through with him.
Lohan continued,
"Having said that -- the people were right, and he is
yet to change -- but this time, without his daughter by his
side -- he has become a public embarrassment and a
bully -- to my family, my co-workers, my friends and a
girl that means the world to me (it's obvious who that
is)."
The Mean
Girls star went on to say that she believes her
father is addicted to fame, and if he really cared about
her, he would respect her wishes. She also said than Ronson
and Lohan's mother, Dina, would never "sell me out."
Lohan ended the post by saying that she had a
therapist and it's not a cameraman at x17 (the
celebrity photo agency and website).
In a separate
post, Ronson said she was angry when she first heard about
Michael's attack on her and called him a man "who is so
desperate for attention that he goes to the media
whenever possible." Ronson went on to say she felt "no
need to publicly defend my role in Lindsay's life --
I'm just sorry that she likes me more than him."
After the blog
entries were posted Thursday, Michael told OK!
magazine in an exclamation point-heavy statement that
his concerns about Ronson were all generated by ex-wife
Dina, who stars alongside their 14-year-old daughter Ali in
the E! reality series Living Lohan. Michael
called Dina a "money-loving, fame-seeking,
self-serving deceiver."
"All I want is
for Lindsay to be healthy and in a good relationship,"
he also said in the statement. "I want her to use the
gifts she has in the best ways and to help others! I said it
from the very beginning: Show me who you walk with and
I will tell you who you are! People may deceive us,
but our eyes and facts don't! OPEN YOUR EYES!!!"
Michael, a former
Wall Street broker, married Dina in 1985. They
finalized a long-simmering divorce proceeding in August,
though they returned to court in New York earlier this
year over custody issues. Michael was released from
prison in March 2007 after serving nearly two years
for attempted assault and driving while intoxicated.
In New York,
meanwhile, one of Lindsay Lohan's uncles, Paul Sullivan, was
sentenced to one year and one day in prison after
fraudulently claiming that his company lost business
because of the September 11 attacks. Sullivan also was
ordered to repay the $646,000 loan he had fraudulently
obtained from the Small Business Administration. (AP)