Lindsay Lohan Was Sick, But She's Fine Now Despite Her Asthma Attack

Lindsay Lohan has finally admitted that she was bulimic and using drugs when she became prime tabloid fodder after her noticeable weight loss of the past year.

The singer/actress looks healthier on the cover of the February issue of Vanity Fair, and she admitted inside the magazine (where she also poses naked) that she "was sick. Everyone was scared. And I was scared too. I had people sit me down and say, 'You're going to die if you don't take care of yourself.'"

Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and cast members Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — who Lohan had worked with in the film Mean Girls — told her that she was too thin when she hosted the show last May. They didn't want to see her go down the same self-destructive path that claimed the lives of former SNL stars John Belushi and Chris Farley.

Lohan suffered from a kidney infection in October 2004 and lost 15 pounds while she was fed intravenously. She has since regained some of her weight back, but the article alludes to her still exhibiting binging and purging eating habits.

The star of The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday and Herbie: Fully Loaded is probably familiar with what it feels like to be loaded. She confessed to Vanity Fair that she has experimented with drugs "a little." When asked if those drugs included cocaine, she said: "I don't want people to think that I've done... you know what I mean? It's a sore subject. I've lost a family member over it, practically."

Lohan gave some insights into her relationship with her father on her recent A Little More Personal (Raw) album, and said in the Vanity Fair article that she hopes that her experiences can help other people.

"I'm not encouraging going out and getting a fake ID and going off the deep end and having and eating disorder."

That ought to be comforting news to parents of all the young girls who idolize Lohan.

Lohan was hospitalized in Miami on January 2 after suffering an asthma attack due to the city's humidity, but she's apparently fine now. Lohan had been diagnosed with bronchial asthma as a child, but this was "the first attack since I've known her," said spokesperson Leslie Sloane Zelnick in an MTV News article.

"She's had attacks before, but not that many, and not recently. She's taking it easy now, she's resting comfortably. She's just tired and not feeling too good. It took a lot out of her."