Lindsay Lohan has given her first frank in-depth interview from rehab and insists she's planning to turn her troubled life around, give up partying and plan a charity mission to Africa.

The Mean Girls star, who has been a patient at the Cirque Lodge rehab facility in Utah since August (07) following two drink-driving charges earlier this year (07), has opened up to America's In Touch Weekly magazine.

Still completing her stay there, Lohan insists her "self destructive" ways are behind her: "Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting.

"I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life. But there are some things that I can do to make changes and grow up. I want to act like a woman rather than a teenager. I am doing the best I can."

And she admits rehab has been a "humbling" experience - once she learned how to take orders from others: "It was hard surrendering and having people tell me what to do. It was really humbling for me, but I liked how I was treated as a normal person.

"I kept the common areas clean. I liked making coffee for the gym the best."

Lohan is now hoping to return to filming before jetting off to Africa, adding, "I'm planning a trip to Africa during the second week in December. I'm working with the American Red Cross, but it is not finalized yet."

Lohan also used the In Touch article to apologize to fans for letting them down.

She concludes, "I just want to apologize to any of my fans that look up to me, especially my younger fans, for setting the examples that I didn't mean to set.

"That is one of the reasons that I want to change things. I don't want to be known as that person. I have a younger sister and she looks up to me, too. All the negative stuff that gets said hurts my feelings, it hurts my sister, Ali, and my family."

 

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