I’m not a bad mum
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November-26-2010 12:18 Comments: 0
She’s been called the ‘Worst mother in America’, but when OK! meets Dina Lohan in New York, she admits, ‘I have no regrets’
When
OK! pulls up outside a typical house in Long Island, New York, to spend the day with a family who is anything but typical, Dina Lohan is at her modest home with Lindsay’s younger siblings and their five dogs. Ali, 16, spends her time buzzing around the house, feeding the dogs and singing, while the boys – Dakota (known as Cody), 14, and Michael Jr, 22 – exchange friendly fire over a video game upstairs as Dina, who looks and sounds just like her oldest daughter, fusses over whether anyone is hungry or needs a snack. Just an ordinary family… living in extraordinary circumstances.
Every room is adorned with photos, and they’re exactly like any other family’s snaps – only one of the smiling children happens to be an A-list celebrity currently completing her
fourth [

] attempt at rehab, having served time in a Los Angeles jail.
With accusations of bad parenting having plagued her for years, Dina, 48, wants to set the record straight. ‘I don’t do many interviews,’ she tells
OK!. ‘I like to speak when things are happy and positive. Lindsay’s doing really well, I’m working really hard, my kids are flourishing and everything is good. There’s a time when you have to tell the public, ‘We’re not crazy people!’