In March issue of Paper Magazine, Lindsay Lohan stole a page from Popeye’s playbook and declared, “I am what I am.” Oh, ok. Lindsay went on to discuss her legal and personal problems in 2007, blaming her drunk driving and rehab trips on a busy schedule. Oh, ok.

“I had a lot going on in my life and that was a way of hiding from it,” she explains. “I hadn’t seen my dad; I had a lot of work stress ’cause I was constantly working and never took time to stop.”

“Everything was go-go-go, and the easiest thing was to run away from it, going out and drinking at night,” she says. “You know, you don’t have to think when you let go sometimes.”

She adds, “But I didn’t realize it was getting in the way of my work, what I’ve worked for my whole life.”

That changed: “There’s not really much else to do when you’re sitting in a treatment center. It’s like, ‘Why am I here? Let’s think,’ ” she concedes.

Lindsay claimed getting back to work will help her stay clean, but unfortch, she has not landed any roles lately.

“I was so used to working and working and working, and for a good few months there was nothing for me to do. Now I know what it’s like to be an out-of-work actor, and how much it scares me.”

Despite the down period, Lindsay said she believes she may have found the right role: a biopic about Clara Bow.

“I definitely relate to a lot of the things that she went through,” says Lohan. “Not with her family, but the trials and tribulations of Hollywood, to an extent.”

Well, Lindsay, cross your fingers that the Clara Bow role won’t go to Sienna Miller, just like all the other movies you’ve audition for lately.

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