Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan has said she’s keen to re-focus on her career after a couple of wild years.

She told Paper magazine recently that she started partying to excess out of stress: “I had a lot going on in my life and that was a way of hiding from it. I hadn’t seen my dad [for two years]; 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. You know, you don’t have to think when you let go sometimes.”

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

Producers of her film Georgia Rule labelled her a “spoilt child” after her bad behaviour on set in the summer of 2006 and her recent film I Know Who Killed Me had to be filmed around her first stay in rehab in January last year. She had a second short stint in treatment in May after her first DUI of the summer before checking into Cirque Lodge in Utah for two months after her second DUI in July.

She now claims to be sober and has had time to reflect on her wild times: “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.”

“Right now I just want to find a great script, a great role. 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.”

Certain Hollywood executives have said it’s too risky to hire the actress but Lindsay remains optimistic: “They either want to take a chance or they don’t, is how I see it.”