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Lindsay Lohan handled the remains of Whitney Houston?

By Jennifer Brett
Sept 15, 2014

Lindsay Lohan suggests that she handled the remains of the late Whitney Houston in a London Telegraph interview to promote a new project.

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Ordered to begin community service at a morgue in October 2011, Lohan described her unique duties:

"It's different for me than it would be for other people – like, no one would really have to work at the morgue in LA and roll a body bag for Whitney Houston."

Lohan was in Atlanta in 2012 to film a role for "Scary Movie 5" and was spotted out and about during her short stint here.

She got through the grim assignment at the morgue and seemed more rattled by the proper way to fold linens than encountering the remains of the late Houston.

“I know it sounds really dark and strange, but I thought it would be a lot worse. I kind of regulated a lot of it. I’d tell people: 'You didn’t fold that sheet properly’, because I’m OCD with folding,” she told the Telegraph.

At the time of her community service at the Los Angeles County coroner's office, the L.A. Times reported on the sorts of tasks she'd be performing.

She was ordered to perform 120 hours of community service, which was to be served in two eight-hour shifts per week, as part of her shoplifting sentence, the Times reported.
"She is not getting any special treatment," Assistant Chief Ed Winter told the L.A. Times. "She's going to be cleaning toilets, mopping floors and emptying the trash bins."

He also told the Times, "She won't be going near the autopsy rooms."

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