Nobody could ever accuse these two of having a healthy relationship. They feed off each other in so many ways and their lives have become so intertwined one would really have to leave town to keep from running into the other. Sam could go back to London but she might not get as many gigs - riding on her brother's coattails will only work so long. That's probably why she moved to LA to begin with, to come out from under his shadow. And Lindsay would never move back to Merrick, Long Island. First of all, her mother may have lost the house because of taxes; at the very least there's a pretty big lien on it. I think Lindsay would rather live in a box over a grate before she admitted failure and moved back home.

They had a very public, very nasty split. But are they really over? This past weekend they sure spent a lot of time together - hours and hours, actually - for a couple who recently broke it off. It could be that Sam is helping Lindsay through a difficult time. She does seem to really care for her. Or she could be doing something else for her, perhaps bringing her a little something to calm her jones. Yes, I said "jones". The bag of bones in the long white halter dress we saw shopping earlier this week looked a mess - she was nervous, jittery, she was biting her nails to the quick. Fast-forward to the shots of her leaving Sam's house after hanging out for six hours, and she's happy Lindsay again. It's like magic, isn't it?

No, it's not. And it's not so hard to believe: the girl who set her up with the paps to be photographed passed out in the front seat of an Escalade, the one who allegedly kept selling her out to line her pockets, may well be the same person who's keeping her strung out and scrawny. One thing's for sure: she's not making her eat. She's not taking her out to dinner. And she's definitely not buying her groceries. Doctors recently estimated that Lindsay is down to 85 lbs. That's about what an Olsen twin goes for - and she's four or five inches taller. That's why her bones are sticking out, and if she didn't have those extensions we'd probably be seeing bald patches, too. She won't be able to keep this up forever; maybe Dr. Drew can talk her into coming on his show. She'd get the attention she so desperately craves and maybe she'd finally be able to get clean.