Lindsay Lohan has turned her life around, says Michael Lohan

Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael Lohan said in a recent interview with Us Magazine, that Lindsay's back to her old self, and has turned her life around - after she checked herself in to Utah’s Cirque Lodge rehabilitation center in late July.

Michael Visited his daughter at the rehab center and rekindled their estranged relationship

An extract from Us Magazine's interview reads below:

On Lindsay being sober:
“Lindsay’s so great. She’s her old self…I’m really proud of her. She’s really turned her life around.”

On what they did when Michael visited Lindsay in rehab:
“We went to the mall, spent quality time together. Just hanging out and talking. We were out in the woods, walking. She did some shopping, of course.”

On Lindsay returning to L.A.:
“She had second thoughts about going back to LA, and didn’t want to be in that element before shooting started on the 15th…Everyone’s trying to get her back to LA. She said, ‘I don’t know if I want to go back there,’ and we all talked about it. I told her, ‘Then don’t – follow your heart.’”

On where she’ll live in Sundance, Utah, during out-patient treatment:
“She’ll live in a house. It doesn’t need to be glamorous. She’s come back to nature. She’s humbled herself in a great way.”

On the pitfalls of being a child star:
“She has such a gift. It’s a shame if she didn’t use it the right way…Take any kid from an All-American family with no problems whatsoever and give millions of dollars and make them famous and put them out there. The problem when you have turmoil in your house as a result of all your success, now instead of just dabbling and partying once in a while, now you’re running away from it all…

On what Lindsay thinks of her mother doing a reality show:
“She understands her mother has to make money, but doesn’t necessarily agree with it.

On the promise ring he recently bought for Lindsay at Zales:
“It’s a promise now that we’re back in each other’s lives again, we won’t walk back again. It’s a band with all diamonds, then another band with diamonds, and a solitaire diamond in the middle and another band.”

Meanwhile, Lindsay has vowed to stay away from the Hollywood part scene: ”I’m staying in Utah until it’s time to shoot ‘Dare to Love Me’, and then I plan on returning to Utah so I can stay focused and avoid other distractions.

“If I wasn’t worried about relapsing, I’d be living in denial. Temptation is always there, but now I’ll avoid it the right way.

“I don’t blame anybody but from now on I plan to surround myself with good people who have their hearts and their minds in the right places.

“While I’ve been in Utah I have only spoken to my family.”