A 911 call made by actress Lindsay Lohan following her altercation with a drug counselor at the Betty Ford Center was released Friday. The former A-lister had spent several months at the famed Pasadena rehab center recovering from addiction to cocaine and alcohol when she got into an argument with clinic employee Dawn Holland after returning to the facility past curfew last Dec. 12.
In the six-minute audio leaked this week, Lindsay and Dawn savagely berate one another as an emergency dispatcher listens in. Holland is heard telling a 911 operator that Lohan hit her with the phone when she tried to give her a breathalyzer test. She orders the actress to pack her bags as the dispatcher tries to quell the furor. The staffer — who threatens to sue Lohan on the recording — further told the dispatcher that the Mean Girls star was among three young women caught sneaking back into the facility. Listen closely and you’ll Lohan her bellowing that Holland is “freaking me out.”
“I’m really uncomfortable with the woman that’s in our house. I’ve never seen her before and she’s freaking me out,” Lohan remarks frantically as the call to 911 begins.
“Hello?” Holland says. “Officer, I’m definitely willing to speak with you as long as she gets off the phone so that we can talk…”
“Pack your shit. Lindsay, you need to pack your shit…Now I’m getting ready to file charges on you. Get ready to be sued,” Holland can be heard saying in the background.
“What do you want? Money?” Lohan asks.
“No, what I want is to be treated the way I am treating you,” Holland replies.
Another scuffle of some sort can then be heard on the tape, before Holland can once again be heard addressing someone else, apparently about Lohan.
“I am done with her. She hit me with the phone, she called the Sheriff, I’m trying to talk to the Sheriff. He asked to speak with me and I agreed to do so as long as she stops barking in the middle of our conversation,” Holland can he heard saying. “She tried to snatch the phone from me [and] hit me with the other phone that she had.”
Police were dispatched to respond to a Betty Ford Center-owned facility in Palm Desert, just east of Los Angeles, to investigate Holland’s claims. She was later fired for violating patient confidentiality rules after talking about the incident in an interview with TMZ on TV. A source close to the actress claims Lohan couldn’t be happier about the call’s release — even as she continues to battle felony theft charges related to a Jan. incident at a Venice jewelry shop. LiLo believes Holland sounds “rude” and “aggressive” in the 911 call, subsequently validating her original account of the incident.
