Michael Lohan started releasing phone calls he recorded from his daughter Lindsay Lohan. In this one Lindsay is crying a lot over stuff.

We believe Michael wants to help Lindsay get help, but releasing personal phone call tapes from a daughter to her father isn’t going to embarass Lindsay into getting help. The tapes might just cause Lindsay to sink deeper into her hole. Despite how much Michael might be able to identify with Lindsay’s situation, he might not be the best person to help her, which is unfortunate, because no one seems interested in helping Lindsay except her father.

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Michael Lohan has been using the media to send messages about his concern for his daughter Lindsay Lohan, and in the process he is only getting Lindsay and Dina angry. Michael responded to Dina’s accusation that Michael is not being a good parent:

"Please get this out. Dina can attack me and say whatever she wants, but when she makes statements like, ’I need to focus on being a parent,’ I think she needs to reach deep inside herself, get out of HER state of denial and be a parent herself. I am taking LEGAL proactive steps, Dina. What are you doing beside lying, making excuses and putting Ali in the same position YOU put Lindsay in. Shall I even begin to play all the tapes of our many conversations about how Lindsay needs intervention, what a good father I am, and how you always loved me. Do you want Linds or your EX boyfriend to hear them? Use that loser David all you want. Your comments and sources don’t work. Be a REAL parent, the one you were when we were married and let’s save our daughter and give her her life back."

Although Michael denies Lindsay is seeking a restraining order against him, he does realize Lindsay is so afraid he really will kidnap her he made the following statement to clarify:

"I just meant I’d like to detox her myself, but of course I’d get arrested. People will twist my words to mean what they want. The bottom line is, Lindsay needs help, and no one wants to do anything."

Lindsay hasn’t gotten a restraining order, but she did say:

"I’m so hurt that someone who calls himself my father, needs to use the press to communicate with me."

"I have not spoken to my father, nor have I responded to his threatening and erratic messages over the last several months. It’s so sad that he needs to stay in the media spotlight by using my name and making up excessive lies. He should instead try to be a real father."

Michael has no way to help Lindsay, except to shout it from the rooftops to put public pressure on her. We know Michael loves attention, but we don’t fault him for talking about helping Lindsay when her mother won’t.

Lindsay looks so horrible. She looks like she is in her fifties.

Despite enabler, and mother, Dina Lohan trying to get everyone, including her ex husband Michael Lohan, to leave Lindsay Lohan alone so she can continue her death spiral, Lindsay herself continues to reinforce the facts.

Just days after appearing in court, looking wasted, for violating her DUI probation by skipping alcohol education classes, Lindsay was out partying at Teddy’s nightclub in Hollywood. Remember when Lindsay said she only went to clubs because she was there to support DJ Samantha Ronson? What’s her excuse now, no cover charge on ladies night?

Lindsay wouldn’t have to hide from the paparazzi if she would just stay home.

On Saturday Dina Lohan responded to Michael Lohan who says their daughter Lindsay Lohan is back on drugs, and in trouble. Dina said:

"Michael Lohan needs to focus on being a parent, paying child support, of which he is six months behind, and making up for all the years he was an absentee dad. And stop going on national television talking about his children publicly."

On Saturday, Michael told the photo agency X17:

"I’m going to see the judge this week…If I can’t get a conservatorship, then I’m going to take her to an undisclosed location and get her straight. But I know I’m gonna get charged with kidnapping."

During a taping Thursday of The Maury Povich Show, Michael looked into the camera and relayed the following message to Lindsay:

"I’m gonna do anything and everything I have to save your life, whether mom likes it, the public likes it, or anyone."

While Michael says he’s planning to meet with a judge and seek conservatorship, a source says that Lindsay herself plans to turn to the courts and seek a restraining order against her father. The source said:

"Lindsay is actively getting a restraining order, her lawyer have already been contacted. She’s scared. This is really serious."

Lindsay does need to be under a conservatorship, but neither Michael nor Dina should be in control of it. Dina is benefiting financially from Lindsay, and continues to enable her, Michael is too much of a mess himself to be able to handle Lindsay’s problems.

Lindsay was in court a few days ago getting another second chance, and looking wasted in front of the judge, yet no one showed any concern. People may have cared about Britney Spears, but it seems no who can help Lindsay, cares enough to help Lindsay.

Lindsay Lohan pleaded guilty for a DUI, for which she got three years probation in 2007, and 84 minutes in jail. Lohan was supposed to be attending the Right on Program for alcohol education, but she took a leave of absence to work as a failed "artistic advisor" for Ungaro. Lohan is now in trouble because the alcohol school reported to the judge that she never returned, until yesterday after Lohan was ordered to appear before a judge today.

Lohan has six weeks left to finish the alcohol education program, and since she has now started attending classes again her lawyer is hoping the judge will give her a pass for violating her probation.

We are hoping Lohan gets jail time for the remainder of her probation. Lohan is a danger to herself, and she needs a big dose of reality.

Michael Lohan went on Maury Povich, for some attention, but also to try to put public pressure on Lindsay to get help. As much as I think Michael does a lot of this for attention, at least he’s doing something to help Lindsay, which is more than Dina Lohan can say.