Lindsay Lohan Headed to Court Today; Dad Speaks Out

OK! GALLERY: LINDSAY LOHAN'S (SOBER) BIRTHDAY BRAWL

Lindsay has also been caught by the paparazzi out partying until the early hours of the morning.

Last month, her court-ordered alcohol-monitoring bracelet went off while she was attending an MTV Movie Awards party, and most recently, Lindsay Tweeted that she was punched in the face by a waitress at Voyeur night club in L.A. on her birthday.

Lindsay's father, Michael Lohan, told CBS news that he plans to be in court today.

Michael has been making a continuous effort to get Lindsay help, claiming she needs to be checked into a private rehab facility and voices constant concern about his daughter's drug abuse.

"In the past she hadn't (taken things as seriously)," Michael told CBS's "The Early Show" co-anchor Erica Hill, "and I think since the bracelet put on, I think the constraints have been the ones she needed and she's taken better steps than she was before."

Michael claimed he is always in contact with his children.

"The issues have been brought up between myself, my other children, who I'm in constant contact with. It's not matter of to me — I really don't believe Lindsay needs to be in jail, but I think the only alternative, and I wish the judge would mandate Lindsay to a rehab where she can get off the prescription drugs. Because regardless, that's the problem and I'm not going to have my daughter back nor where anyone else have the Lindsay Lohan back that they knew and loved until they're out of her life."

What kind of drugs does Michael believe Lindsay is abusing?

"So many doctors have prescribed her so many different things that she never was on and never needed and now she's on them," he said. "I couldn't tell you all the names, but Adderall, for one.

"Adderall is nothing but methamphetamine. For anyone that knows the pharmaceutical business or knows what kids are into these days, adderall is taking over society. It's supposed to a focus medication, but it's speed. And it's polluting society and our teenagers and kids."

Michale's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, accompanied him on the early morning talk show and noted she wrote a letter to the judge on behalf of Michael, pleading that she be sent to rehab instead of jail.

"The first question the judge has to address is was Lindsay in violation if she missed some alcohol education classes a few months ago and when she missed that had court date when she was in Cannes," Lisa explained on the live broadcast. "So the court will have to make a factual finding. If the court finds she was in violation, then question is what happens to her. The state wants her to be incarcerated. Lindsay wants nothing to happen to her and Michael and I have struck a middle position asking the court to continue the controls on her that the court ordered last time around. The random drug tests, the SCRAM bracelet, the no-alcohol order."

Bloom concluded, "Ultimately she needs to go to rehab. I think we all agree with that. Even if she's incarcerated, it won't be for very long because of overcrowding in L.A. jails. Minor offenders like Lindsay are in and out. The last time she only served 84 minutes, so that it serves no purpose. What she really needs is rehab."

Lindsay has a record of not attending court appointments, but skipping out on today's hearing would be a drastic mistake for the actress.

"She better after I got up at 3:00 in the morning to do this show and come out here," Michael said.

Michael explained that he is only contacted by Lindsay when "something horrible comes up in her life."

"As recently as with the situation with this girl Jasmine that did, in fact, hit her," Michael said of the last time Lindsay reach out to him.

"But that's needless to say, Lindsay is my daughter. I love her to death. I don't care if we don't have contact at this point. I mean I really wish we would, so I can speak to her face-to-face and tell her what I feel and what I think is best for her, but I'm going to do what I have to do as a father and this isn't one of the things."

"I just want to sit alone with her in a room and just get her to understand that she's not herself, and doesn't have the life she needs or that she wants."

Michael maintains that all of Lindsay's problems are a direct effect of the prescription drugs she is on.

"When people are put on prescription drugs, they don't even realize, they think the drugs they're on is what is needed in their life to control them and Lindsay doesn't need them. She was put on for the wrong reasons, and she's addicted to them and she's got to get off them."

Stay tuned for full coverage of Lindsay's court hearing today.