Lindsay Lohan: "I was putting myself in the wrong situations"

Actress Lindsay Lohan insists she has totally turned her life around from her alarming partying - admitting: "I was putting myself in the wrong situations."

The 21-year-old star left Cirque Lodge rehab center in Utah six-months ago and insists she is not the same wild girl who so desperately needed help.

"I did - I changed things," she said, saying she has cut-out some of the bad influences and unhealthy hangers-on.

But the star takes full blame for her troubles, saying she had her priorities all wrong.

"I think it was just situations that I was putting myself in," she said. "I was putting myself in the wrong situations and I didn't have the focus in the right place."

Now, instead of drink-and-drug abusing party animals, her focus has been staying in touch with people she met at rehab - as well as growing closer to her family, most notably her father Michael, who she had spent years not in contact with.

"My family has always been important to me, and they've always supported me," said Lohan. "I'm blessed to have a really wonderful family."

It also seems to be the start of a career revival for the star, who is recording a new album, has a movie, Chapter 27, opening soon and is about to start filming the Jack Black movie Ye Olde Times this spring.

"I'm excited to go and do a comedy," she says.

Asked if she sees it as her 'comeback', she said: "I think this is what I love to do.

"I'm just continuing to do it - in the right ways."