By Amber Goodhand – Radar News Editor 
 
 Lindsay Lohan was partying hard early Thursday morning before her arrest in a New York City nightclub and an eyewitness exclusively tells RadarOnline.com the Liz & Dick actress not only sucker-punched a female clubgoer, but she spit at her after drinking heavily and doing cocaine. 
 
 “Lindsay was completely out of control. She was drinking way too much booze and was doing cocaine,” the insider revealed. 
 
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 “The whole thing started when the girl in the club asked to take a picture with Lindsay. Lindsay said no and was really rude about it, so the girl just continued dancing with her friends.” 
 
 But the source says Lindsay wouldn’t let it go and was so annoyed with the victim, Tiffany Eve Mitchell, that she purposely antagonized her and shoved Tiffany on the way to the bathroom. 
 
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 “Lindsay was just looking for trouble. She totally sucker-punched that girl in the face out of nowhere! Nobody saw it coming,” the eyewitness told RadarOnline.com. 
 
 “Lindsay went wild. She was kicking and screaming, cursing at the girl and then spit at her. The girl looked like she wanted to fight back at Lindsay, but was too startled by all the commotion to react.” 
 
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 According to the source, who has hung out with Lindsay numerous times, the 26-year-old gets very feisty when she’s drunk. 
 
 “Lindsay is a very angry girl inside,” the source said. 
 
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 “That fight was completely unnecessary but Lindsay just gets very belligerent when she drinks and parties.” 
 
 Lindsay was arrested and charged with third-degree assault early Thursday morning by the NYPD after allegedly hitting Tiffany, 28, in the face around 4 a.m. at Avenue nightclub in Manhattan. 
 
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 Lindsay Lohan is adamant that she didn’t hit anyone when she was trying to make a hasty retreat from a Hollywood nightclub shortly after midnight Wednesday, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. 
 
 As we previously reported LiLo, 25, was leaving Sayers Club in Hollywood Wednesday at 12:20 am PT in her new black Porsche when she was blocked by a horde of paparazzi and club patrons from the nearby Hookah Lounge, officials said. 
 
 As Lindsay was trying to make a U-turn among the crowd at the late night hotspot, she nearly hit the car of the Hookah Lounge’s manager, police said. When he got out of his car to warn her of the near-hit, she reportedly grazed his knee and sped off. One of the manager’s employees called police to report a “traffic collision,” according to the LAPD Hollywood Division. 
 
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 Police responded to the scene to investigate if a hit-and-run had taken place or if anyone was injured; authorities told RadarOnline.com that when officers arrived, they interviewed people on the scene, including the manager of the Hookah Lounge. 
 
 “There was no evidence of a crime or a hit and run,” a police spokesperson told us. “There was no evidence of a crime.” 
 
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 However, the manager subsequently went to the hospital and is planning on pressing charges against the actress, after he found out who the driver of the car was the infamous wayward actress. 
 
 “Lindsay is adamant that she absolutely didn’t hit anyone while she was driving. Lindsay is extremely upset that there would be speculation she would ditch the scene of a potential crime scene. She is days away from being taken off formal probation. Lindsay has talked to her attorney Shawn Holley, who has subsequently reached out to cops from the LAPD Hollywood division. Would it make sense for Lindsay to flee the scene with tons of paparazzi? No, she wouldn’t have done that if there was a remote possibility she had hit someone,” the source says. 
 
 Moments after the alleged hit-and-run, Lindsay was stopped by cops, but she wasn’t driving and was in the passenger seat and “was told that she hadn’t hit anyone with her car. Lindsay was absolutley 100% sober, and cops had no reason to arrest her. Lindsay’s probation officer will be notified Wednesday morning that a person is claiming to have been hit by her, but that initially after the incident, the manager of the Hookah Lounge was telling everyone he was fine and wasn’t complaining of any injuries,” the insider says. 
 
 Lindsay is set to appear in front of Judge Stephanie Sautner on Thursday, March 29 for a final progress report. If a police report is filed by the manager of the Hookah Lounge, that could place Lohan in jeopardy of having her probation violated, and go to jail. 
 
 Calls seeking comment from Lohan’s publicist weren’t immediately returned. 
 
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– Details of Lindsay Lohan's nightclub fight are coming out, with alleged victim Tiffany Mitchell telling TMZ her side of the story. Mitchell, who is, in the words of the gossip site, a "well-known psychic," says she had a premonition involving Lindsay. When she saw the actress walk into the club, she went up and offered to do a free reading. That's when LiLo rejected the idea and said, "Give me my space," but as she was walking away, Mitchell's friend claimed to hear Lohan call Mitchell a "f--king Gypsy." The friend reacted as you might expect, that is, by immediately calling Linds a "whore" and making fun of her latest movie. That's when Lohan allegedly hit Mitchell in the eye. "We are not Gypsies," Mitchell's husband notes. "It was a racist comment." Lindsay had been drinking all day, sources tell TMZ, and was "sloppy" drunk by the time she had her run-in with Mitchell. The actress has been drinking heavily due to stress over her money and legal problems, and sometimes drinks two liters of vodka per day, the sources add. Radar claims Lohan had been doing cocaine before the altercation, while the New York Post has her drunk for even longer—on "a two-day bender." Also yesterday, Lohan was charged with three other misdemeanors, including lying to police, related to her June Porsche accident, the AP reports.