Lindsay Lohan’s obituary has been prewritten in the event the former child star should die as a result of her hard-partying lifestyle and alleged continued drug use, according to a tipster at at least one popular US media outlet. With a history of substance abuse plaguing any chance she has of reinventing herself in Hollywood, “Is Lindsay Lohan going to be the next Hollywood casualty?” is a question Pop Culture Junkies have been asking themselves a lot lately.
News wires are so convinced that Lohan’s lifestyle will be the death of her, they’ve resorting to a controversial time-saving practice they implemented when Elizabeth Taylor began experiencing health problems in the 1980s, and as recently as 2007, after Britney Spears’ emotional breakdown prompted questions about her own future: getting together an obit.
“News outlets need to be prepared. However shocking a story it might be, they are in the business of breaking news fast and any preparation that can be done ahead of time is them just simply doing their jobs,” a senior producer at a major news outlet reportedly told PopEater’s Rob Shuter this week. “We all scrambled when Brittany Murphy and Heath Ledger died and don’t want that to happen again…”
Over the last few days, Lindsay’s seemingly endless downward spiral appears to have sped up. In just the past week, the star has ended up facedown in a bush, appeared in public dressed like one of the teen witches from The Craft, and was photographed with a mysterious white cloud puffing up from her Louboutins as the paps happily snapped away.