Tough Love

Courtney wants to give Lindsay the benefit of her troubled past

Friday, December 2, 2011

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    A now-sober Courtney Love wants to help.

Would Courtney Love scare you straight? Lindsay Lohan may be about to find out!

Though Lohan’s rep denies it, Love says she’s using her own drug-fueled past to help the troubled “Mean Girls” star get sober.

“I’ve taken up Lohan because nobody else will. [She’s] further down the line than I was, because there was no TMZ then,” she tells the new Details.

The blabbermouth rocker revealed in 2008, after she went through a 12-step program, that her own sobriety coach was actor Orlando Bloom. And even before dishing to Details, Love had plenty of advice for Lohan when Flash ran into her recently at New York’s Mondrian SoHo hotel.

“I emailed her and put a little picture of ‘The Parent Trap’ and said, ‘This is what you have going for you. I will only pay for red hair and get you makeup,’ ” Love told us. (Makeup advice from Love? Hmmm.)

Love also told Flash that if LiLo gets arrested again, she should try to get arraigned in Beverly Hills because “the courtrooms are better lit,” before wondering, “Should I help Lindsay Lohan get her thing together?”

Lohan’s rep Steve Honig told us yesterday that while Lindsay is “grateful for her friendship, Courtney Love is not her sobriety coach.”

Still, Love told Details about going “to Lindsay’s room, and there was a show on called ‘101 Celebrity Oops’ and I am like every other one … boobs out, legs everywhere, throwing s*** at Madonna … I’m like ‘Lindsay, look! Drugs are bad!’ ”