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Actress/singer LINDSAY LOHAN has revealed the seriousness of her 2004 hospital stay to style magazine Vanity Fair - she was hooked up to an IV and dosed up with morphine to help her deal with crippling head pains.
The MEAN GIRLS star, who has just been released from a Miami, Florida, hospital following a severe New Year asthma attack, has rarely spoken about her 2004 health scare, other than to suggest she was just exhausted after weeks spent filming movie HERBIE: FULLY LOADED and recording her debut album at the same time.
But now, in a candid interview with Vanity Fair, Lohan admits her medical condition was much worse than many believe.
She reveals, "My liver was swollen, and I had a kidney infection, and my white blood cells were accelerated... I wasn't eating. I was on an IV. They were giving me shots of morphine to numb the head pains every two hours."
And when her best friend JESSE came to visit her, she was shocked with how the actress looked: "I was really, really white and I got really, really pale... I hadn't gotten out of bed. My legs were so numb from not walking, I had a walker to walk to the bathroom and back. My body didn't have enough strength to take a shower." (KL/VF/ES)
(c) 2004 World Entertainment News Network
