Lindsay Attempted Suicide Over Married Man

Fresh off her first bust for DUI and drug possession, Lindsay Lohan checked into the Promises treatment center in Malibu for help with her drug and alcohol demons. But a doomed love affair while in rehab sent her spinning into a deeper downward spiral that ended with a total meltdown – and her latest arrest on July 24.

Lindsay’s rehab romance was “pathetic,” a source tells Star. “He was a married guy from the Midwest with a nice body. He was having fun with Lindsay. She called him her ‘rehab boyfriend.’ They would fool around all the time. And they weren’t just kissing. He was in her room often.”

But when the time came for her “boyfriend” to leave Promises and fly home, Lindsay was a wreck.

“She completely freaked out,” the source says. “She started screaming, ‘Don’t leave me! Don’t leave me! If you leave I am going to die!’” A few minutes after he left, Lindsay emerged from her room with blood dripping from a self-inflicted wound on her wrist. “She cut her left wrist so badly, there was blood everywhere – on her clothes, on her face, in her hair,” the source reveals. “She was screaming, ‘He can’t go’ and sobbing.”

It wasn't the first time that an out-of-control Lindsay has cut herself, insiders report. A friend of the actress recalls a 3-day drinking and drug bender during which Lindsay consumed massive amounts of vodka, cocaine, pills and Ecstasy and ended up at a party at the Hollywood Hills where she became enraged when the host ran out of her favorite drink.

“She wanted Grey Goose vodka and went on a rampage,” says a friend who has been close to the troubled starlet for years.

The insider tells Star, Lindsay screamed, “I want my brand, and I want it now!” before grabbing a corkscrew and shutting herself in the bathroom. Partygoers heard cabinets being opened and slammed shut, and then Lindsay screamed through the door, “I’m going to kill myself! No one understands me!”

The friend says Lindsay “was cutting her wrists with the corkscrew. She’s done this before, and its crazy scary. A few minutes later she came out dripping blood. Luckily the wounds were superficial, but it was still a horrific sight.”

According to the friend, this was one of at least five other similar episodes – not counting the Promises freak-out – that led to the catastrophic events of July 23, when an apparently intoxicated Lindsay reportedly got into a fight with her assistant, Tarin Graham, then commandeered a friend’s SUV and took off on a wild high-speed car chase. Lindsay failed a field sobriety test and was charged with two counts of driving under the influence, possession of cocaine and driving with a suspended license. Her arraignment is scheduled for August 24.

“For someone who a year ago was on top of the world, it’s tragic,” says her friend. “She’s hit rock bottom – it’s like watching a horrible train wreck. You want to turn away, but you can’t.”