Los Angeles: Actress Lindsay Lohan voluntarily checked herself into rehab on Tuesday, for the fifth time in three years.
TMZ.com and celebrity photo news agency X17online.com said that Lohan, 24, had checked into a rehabilitation centre in southern California late on Monday night and was expected to stay there until an October 22 court hearing.
Lohan's lawyer failed to answer phone calls for comment on the matter.
The decision by the star of movies Freaky Friday and Mean Girls follows a chaotic summer of court appearances, rehab and jail time that has halted her bid to regain her once promising career.
Lohan did three stints in rehab in 2007, after admitting she was addicted to drink and drugs, and was released early from a fourth court-ordered stay in August.
Last week, she was briefly taken back to jail after failing a court-ordered drug test, and was ordered to wear a drug and alcohol monitoring device, on her release.
