Because looking like a washed up hag isn’t enough for this 23-year-old, Lindsay Lohan has finally opened up about the drug habit that she’s always denied.

As far as why she started using drugs, she attributed part of it to when her father beat up her mother and then started speaking to the media about Lindsay in 2007.

She said, “I tried to mask my problems with alcohol, cocaine and mind-altering substances. Now I’m in a place where I don’t need to use anything and I can feel emotions because I choose to.”

When talking about her trips to rehab, she said, “The first time I checked myself in because I had taken Ambien. It’s a sleeping aid but it makes you hallucinate. I’d run a bath and fallen asleep on the floor and the bath had overflowed. When I woke up I was so scared, I called my therapist and said, ‘Can I just go somewhere for a month? I’m around bad people and I need to take care of myself’. I was terrified, so I put myself in. There was a point when I didn’t know how to say ‘No’ and I was trying to please everyone.”

She’s all better now, adding, “I’ve now learned my boundaries and I’ve been very good with cleaning house with people who I know didn’t have my best intentions at heart. A lot of people in LA are very self destructive. Partying so hard simply isn’t worth it. Life is worth living and there is so much to do and experience, it’s wonderful.”

Are you buying it or is it damage control for her failing image? Thoughts?