Lindsay Lohan finds rehab ’sobering experience’

Fresh out of Utah’s Cirque Lodge treatment center, Lindsay Lohan tells OK! magazine she found rehab to be “a sobering experience.”

Ah, isn’t that the point?

“It was humbling,” Lohan mused. “It made me look at myself and all of the people, places and things in my life in a different way. I was in there for substance abuse, after all.”

LiLo entered the strict detox program in August after reaching a plea deal on misdemeanor drunken-driving and cocaine charges following two arrests, one of which involved a bizarre car chase.

Her plea deal called for her to enter treatment, spend a day in jail and perform community service.

The “Georgia Rules” star said “of course” she worries she may relapse.

“Temptation is always there,” she said, “but now I’ll avoid it the right way.”

The “right way” is avoiding L.A., the hotspots Lohan used to frequent and her goodtime pals “who want to go out and party,” she says.

“I’m staying in Utah until it’s time to shoot ‘Dare to Love Me,’ and then I plan on returning to Utah so I can stay focused, and avoid other distractions,” she tells OK!

Us Weekly reports the actress has a cameo in the Alfonso Arau film - starting Oct. 15 - and will be accompanied by a chaperone during the entire two-week shoot.

The road to recovery also included re-establishing a relationship with her dad, Michael Lohan, after a three-year estrangement.

Papa Lohan visited his oldest daughter twice during her stint in Utah and told Us he advised her to “follow you heart,” when she confessed she wasn’t sure she wanted to return to L.A.

And though Lohan tells In Touch Weekly her parents’ divorce triggered her bad behavior, she says “it’s better for me now to have them (in my life). It’s healthy.”

“I just want to apologize to any of my fans who look up to me, especially my younger fans, for setting the examples that I didn’t mean to set,” she added. “That is one of the reasons that I want to change things.”

Via bostonherald