What was it like working with Lindsay Lohan on Georgia Rule? Did you have any advice for her?
I didn’t give her advice because she didn’t ask, so it was hard, she wasn’t ready for that she’s a kid. But my heart goes out to her. My life has been a breeze compared to hers, you have no idea. I had a family, I had a father who had real values and gave me structure and expectations and integrity. He was solid. She doesn’t have that and never had that, and then you lay over the kind of celebrity she’s had from the time she was 12. It is understandable that she has problems. If she’d wanted advice, I would have tried to impress on her that this isn’t a rehearsal, this is it, the only life we have as far as we know and you have to decide what it is you want to make of your life. Is she going to come through? I don’t know, I don’t know. Your own childhood was painful in many ways your mother Frances Seymour Brokaw committed suicide. Can you ever fully recover from that kind of tragedy? It got easier when I discovered the truth, doing research for my book. She suffered from mental illnes
