Lindsay Lohan's former bodyguard, Tony Almeida, recently told In Touch that he watched LiLo growing up and believes her wild ways are the result of her abusive parents who saw her as a meal ticket. Almeida reports: "Lindsay was the family cash cow - and she resented it.They counted on her to pay their bills . . . I saw Lindsay exhausted, begging her mother for some time off."
Giving an example of their permissiveness, Almeida says, "Young Lindsay's parents looked the other way as she began a life of boozing, boys and drugs. When she was 15, they allowed her to share a room with her then-14-year-old boyfriend, Aaron Carter, at Loews in Miami Beach. Almeida relates, "They knew Lindsay was sleeping in Aaron's room. But they seemed happy she had chosen somebody who could benefit her singing career."
Almeida, who worked for Lindsay from 2002 to 2005, told the new issue of In Touch, "From a young age, she dealt with her father's physical, emotional and drug abuses as well as her mother's drinking."
One time when Lindsay was 16, her father Michael flew into a rage while driving and "slammed on the brakes and dragged her out of the car, pushed her up against the hood, screamed at her and called her a slut. This was on the Long Island Expressway! I got in the middle of it and pulled him off."
Meanwhile, mother Dina Lohan often "let Lindsay do whatever she wanted, just to keep her happy and working . . . [At her 16th birthday party] Lindsay drank whatever she wanted - I saw her drinking beer and mixed drinks with my own eyes [without Dina's intervention]."
