Actress Lindsay Lohan arrives at the 2006 GQ Magazine Man of the Year dinner in West Hollywood, California, November 29, 2006.. Photo Credit: REUTERS/Gene Blevins30 Jan 2007 (BANG Showbiz) - Lindsay Lohan's arrival at the Wonderland rehab clinic has driven fellow residents out of the facility.
The Mean Girls star is believed to have been given special privileges - including being able to leave the clinic - and this has forced staff to allow Lindsay's fellow residents the same leniency.
A former resident - who recently checked out early from Wonderland - told gossip website TMZ: "I left early because of Lindsay Lohan. Since she started getting special treatment, so has everybody else.
"Wonderland has become a joke. While I'm trying to save my life, she's trying to save her face."
In response, Dr. Howard C. Samuels from the Wonderland Rehab Center explained to Access Hollywood her trips are part of her treatment.
"Wonderland is a structured 12 step base treatment center. We treat individuals' emotional, physical and spiritual elements as they pertain to the disease of addiction and alcoholism," he said.
"Our philosophy is a policy of integration into life - not isolation. We do not isolate the individual; we integrate recovery into the individual's life. That is what we believe in," he added.
The 20-year-old actress checked herself into the Wonderland Center, in Los Angeles' Laurel Canyon, on January 17 to be treated for alcoholism, following an all-night drinking binge at the Golden Globes (15.01.07).
Since checking into Wonderland, Lindsay has taken calls from journalists on her mobile phone, been allowed out to film her latest movie I Know Who Killed Me and shopped on Rodeo Drive.
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