Lindsay Lohan claims to have handled Whitney Houston's body bag

The troubled and talented Lindsay Lohan

She started as a promising child star, but nobody could have predicted how things would go from there.  

Lindsay Lohan says she was doing community service at the LA County Morgue when Whitney Houston's body came in.

The troubled actress was serving a sentence for drunk driving and violating probation by working 12-hour shifts in the morgue when she claims the close encounter took place, she told the London Telegraph.

She says the experience was "F’d up and inappropriate – because a lot of other people were meant to do it, and they were like: 'No, they can’t handle it. Lohan can.’ 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.

An official from the Coroner's Office refuted Lohan's account, telling TMZ Houston's body was transported in a plastic sheet from the hotel where she died.

To cope with the unusual regimen, Lohan says she became a stickler for the rules." I kind of regulated a lot of it," she says. "I’d tell people: 'You didn’t fold that sheet properly’, because I’m OCD with folding.”

Lohan is currently in London, rehearsing a role in David Mamet's play Speed-the-Plow, opening on the West End on September 24. The plot is described as "a dissection of soul-selling in the movie industry" and Lohan has been cast as a manipulative temp, working for a Hollywood producer.

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