How does a young actress who began her acting career at the age of three go from being a straight A student to serving time in jail? How did the life of a young starlet become so damaged and torn? It’s hard to know the real answer, but with Lindsay Lohan recent jail visit lasting only four and half hours it leaves people wondering what went wrong. Let’s take a closer look at Lohan’s recent run in with the law and her sordid past.

The Four and Half Hour Jail Stay

On November 6, Lohan checking into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, California at 8:48 pm PST only to be released at 1:28 am PST the following morning. The detention facility, which currently has an overcrowding problem released the star, but her deeds will not go unpunished. Lohan is to complete community service working in a morgue due to the fact that the celebrity failed to show up for her original assignment of doing community service at a women’s shelter in Los Angeles. The judge also ordered that the celebrity not doing any Tweeting while pulling her hours in the morgue and she must also complete 19 psycho-therapy sessions by March 29. Should Lohan fail to comply, she will have to serve another 270 hours of her sentence.

What Went Wrong?

The exact date that Lohan’s life started to spiral out of control is unsure. However, in December 2006 the star started going to AA meetings and then entered rehab at the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles on January 18, 2007. Sadly, the star was arrested for two DUI charges in August of that same year and spent one day in jail and ten days doing community service. Things continued to go down hill when in 2010 Lohan was charged for violating the probation from her previous DUIs. The matter escalated to a point where Lohan’s lawyer resigned. The pattern continued with more alcohol problems for the young starlet and lots more jail and community service time.

While we may never know what led Lindsay Lohan to go down the wrong path, we do know that she’s made attempts to get help. Is the life of a celebrity really that hard or is just too easy to get your fix in Hollywood? One can only hope that Lohan overcomes her addiction and is able to continue on the path to fame, rather than being another star that crashed and burned.