Lindsay Lohan a 'fidgety mess' hours before she's locked up

Los Angeles: Troubled Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan was said to be a "fidgety mess” just hours before she was due to be locked up on Tuesday, for 90 days, according to People magazine.

Lohan, 24, who was sentenced because of parole violations in her 2007 drunken driving conviction, broke down in tears on July 6 when the judge ordered her to be imprisoned.
 
However it’s unlikely she will serve out her full sentence in a Los Angeles detention facility, given the fact that her crime was nonviolent and that she is a Hollywood celebrity. Usually Hollywood stars serve a mere fraction of their time.

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The actress broke the terms of her parole for missing seven classes of a 90-day, in-patient substance abuse programme, which Judge Marsha Revel had ordered her to attend.

On Monday Lohan was reportedly distraught, People magazine reported. "She is a nervous, fidgety mess, and her legal team, family and friends are very concerned about her fragile state," a source told the US publication.

Lohan has, for the past few days, been staying at the Pickford Lofts Rehabilitation Centre. "It's been a rough weekend," said the quoted source. "She has not been able to sleep and has barely been eating. All weekend, Lindsay kept crying, chain-smoking and chewing her nails."

Lohan's lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, has quit her case and on Friday, O.J. Simpson's ex-lawyer Robert Shapiro took up the challenge. He specialises in drug abuse cases; his own son died of a drug overdose in 2005.

However Shapiro's dedication comes with conditions. He told the Los Angeles Times that he agreed to represent Lohan only if she complied both with her 90-day prison sentence and with the terms of her probation.