This could be the last story you read about Lindsay Lohan for the next three months if all goes well during her 90-day stay at the Betty Ford Clinic . Just days before checking into court-ordered rehab last week , the actress spoke extensively to Piers Morgan in an article for London 's Daily Mail newspaper , which published it in this Sunday 's edition . Lohan , who turns 27 in two months , told Morgan , host of CNN 's `` Piers Morgan Live '' she 's never been `` a huge drinker '' and despite rumors , failed drug tests and a drug possession arrest , she 's only used cocaine `` maybe four or five times in my life . '' She 's spent more than 250 days in rehab and another trip `` is pointless , '' she said in the Daily Mail story . Instead , she should be allowed to `` go abroad to different countries and work with children . '' Lohan 's life off the rails . Lohan 's life and career ran off the rails starting in her disastrous year of 2007 when she was twice convicted of drunken driving , once for cocaine use , made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay . Her arrests were `` totally irresponsible -- a stupid mistake , '' she said . `` And from then on , the press were on me all the time , '' Lohan said . `` It was the first time I 'd taken drugs . I was out in a club with people I should n't have been with , and took cocaine , and got in the car . It was so stupid . '' Her first rehab visit was not because of drugs or alcohol but to help her deal with the trauma she experienced making a movie , she told Morgan . She voluntary checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles while she was shooting `` I Know Who Killed Me '' in January 2007 . Lohan 's legal woes : A timeline . `` I was having really bad nightmares , and the movie was pretty traumatizing , '' Lohan said . `` So I stayed in a facility so I could get some sleep and talk about it with someone the next day , because it was overwhelming . But I would leave every day and just sleep there at night . I liked that . It was kind of like having my own live-in therapist , because I was having crazy nightmares and I was having AA meetings on set and stuff . It really helped . '' Lohan : The good teenager . She had been drinking for less than a year at that point , Lohan said . She stayed away from alcohol after her first hangover experience at 17 , when her mother made her `` sleep with vomit still on me so I 'd understand how it felt , '' she said . `` I was too scared ! '' She was a good teenager , she said . `` My friends and I would actually pretend to be drunk , '' she said . `` And it was more fun . I never rebelled against my parents -- I worked hard , I was responsible and I did n't go to high-school parties . '' She does n't consider herself to be an alcoholic -- `` I 've never woken up in the morning and had a drink '' -- but `` when I was younger , I was definitely going out too much and I was drinking too much . '' Lohan : A rehab expert . Lohan considers herself an expert on rehab facilities . `` I 've been court-ordered to do it six times , '' she said . `` I could write the book on rehab . Constantly sending me to rehab is pointless . The first few times I was court-ordered to rehab , it was like a joke , like killing time . '' Morgan interviewed her before the confusion erupted over which rehab facility she would enter . After arriving at one -- which California officials said was unlicensed -- she left for the Betty Ford Clinic , where she spent her last and longest rehab stay . `` I look at it as a good thing , '' she said about this rehab visit . `` I can come back afterwards and be fully focused on work . But I think there are other things I could do instead of going to a rehab center that would benefit me more . The best thing they could do for me would be to make me go abroad to different countries and work with children . '' Lohan : Clean and sober . If she is not a drug user -- she tells Morgan she smoked `` some pot '' a year ago -- or an alcoholic , then why would she need rehab , Morgan asked . `` This is where it gets hard for me to explain , '' she said . `` I do n't think there 's anything wrong with people taking time to just be by themselves . I think people want to see me do that . They will keep saying the same things about me if I do n't . I do n't think it will be a bad thing for me to be away with myself for three months . '' Although now confessing to Morgan that she used drugs a year ago , she told Matt Lauer on NBC 's `` Today '' show a year ago that that she was `` clean and sober '' then for `` a long time . '' Although she was once arrested for cocaine possession and later sent to rehab when she violated probation by testing positive for the drug , Lohan said she rarely used it since `` I do n't like it . '' Cocaine : Not her favorite drug . `` It reminds me of my dad , '' she said . `` I took it four times in a period from about the age of 20 to 23 , and I got caught twice . '' Cocaine made her feel `` a little too buzzed -- it made me feel uncomfortable , '' she told Morgan . She 's not `` a junkie , '' she said . `` It 's the truth . I 've never taken heroin either , never injected myself with anything , never done LSD . Those things all scare me . '' Her drugs of choice are `` pot , obviously , and Ecstasy , '' she said . `` I liked that ( Ecstasy ) better than the others . '' Morgan reports Lohan then giggled . Lohan : Not a junkie . Lohan has previously acknowledged having a drug problem , though . She posted this Twitter message in September 2010 just before entering the Betty Ford Clinic for three months : `` Substance abuse is a disease , which unfortunately does n't go away over night . I am working hard to overcome it and am taking positive steps . '' Lohan claimed to Morgan that she 's just misunderstood . The constant online tabloid reports of late-night partying , which sometimes results in legal issues , do n't show the real person . `` I 've never been a junkie , and never will be , '' she said . `` I just like going out late to clubs with friends and listening to music . Always have done . It 's not that unusual for girls of 26 ! '' Heath Ledger 's advice . She slowed down on her drinking on the advice of an actor , Lohan said . `` Heath Ledger told me to give it up for a year because he 'd just done that , and so I did , and it was n't a problem for me , '' she said . Ledger was 28 when he died from a prescription drug overdose in January 2008 , a year after Lohan 's first rehab visit . Lindsay prefers men . Lohan also talked to Morgan about her sexuality -- she 's straight despite a past relationship with a woman . `` I like boys , '' she said . `` I know I 'm straight , '' she said . `` I have made out with girls before , and I had a relationship with a girl . But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for something different . '' She said she was in love with Samantha Ronson during their relationship , and `` I still love her as a person . '' `` I like being in a relationship with a guy , '' Lohan said . `` But there 's something just different about it with a woman . When I was with Samantha , I did n't want to leave , because I did n't want to be alone . It was very toxic . '' Dad 'creates chaos ' About her father , Michael Lohan : `` He wo n't change , '' she said . `` I just think there comes a point where you just kind of have to accept what it is . `` Whenever I do try to bring him back into my life , he creates chaos for me and uses it to his advantage . He 's been really good and then really crazy my whole life . '' Hollywood friends . While she blames the Los Angeles lifestyle for steering her off course , she does point to two Hollywood women who have helped her . `` Meryl Streep was nice , '' Lohan said . `` She just advised me on my acting and what I needed to do differently , and she told me I needed to go back to live with my mum for a while . '' She could n't move back to New York because at the time , her probation requirements , which including regular drug testing , restricted her to California -- `` the worst possible place I could be , '' she said . `` Jamie Lee Curtis was very kind to me , too , '' she said . `` She also told me to listen to good advice and to get rid of the hangers-on . '' Stay tuned . Will you see another story about Lindsay Lohan 's substance abuse and legal troubles before she 's scheduled to get out of rehab in early August ? What could happen in the Betty Ford Clinic , a well-respected refuge for those needing to get their lives back on track ? Lohan was accused of assaulting a Ford staff member during her last stay in December 2010 , although the investigation was suspended on December 24 after the staffer drops charges against Lohan . Just weeks after her release from there , she was again involved in controversy for stealing a necklace from a jewelry store . 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Lindsay Lohan talks to Piers Morgan just before going into rehab . ` ` I 've never been a junkie , '' the actress says . ' But it 's not `` a bad thing for me to be away with myself for three months , '' she says .