Dina Lohan has said she knew daughter Lindsay Lohan would end up in rehab but she had to let Lindsay figure it out for herself.

In a recent interview for Harper’s Bazaar, she denied that Lindsay was an alcoholic despite Lindsay’s attendance at AA meetings before she checked into rehab: “[Lindsay] is just a 20-year-old who had to reel it in. And she’s from an addictive personality genetically. And in that world, they give you things like candy. Hurt your ankle? ‘Let’s give her something.’”

“Lindsay had to fall and get up. I knew it was coming. I told her, but finally she was like, ‘Mommy, I had to do it myself.’ You can lead a horse to water. You can’t make him drink.”

Dina also denied her “party mom” reputation: “Lindsay would drag me, literally drag my loser butt there and say, ‘I need you to know who these people are.’ Yeah, she trusts my judgment. She’s in such a whirlwind; she’s in a tornado. I mean, we’re talking serious earthquake, you know?…”

“Oh, the party mom, the party mom, the party mom! Whoever said that, my ex-husband or whatever, I’m not the party mom! You throw enough pasta on the walls, some pasta’s going to stick, okay?”

“We are not a bunch of screw-ups. No, we’re normal. It’s normalcy. We’re just so misunderstood. My sons are in sports; my daughters want to be actors. I was in the business, and I’m going to help them. You don’t like that? I’m living the American dream.”