As many of us watched Lindsay Lohan’s cracked-out pre-birthday celebration (otherwise known as the Las Vegas Lost Weekend), many of us thought to ourselves, “This is what Dina Lohan hath wrought.” As Lindsay officially turns 23 years old today (happy birthday, Lindsay), can we still blame her insanity on Dina? Can we blame Lindsay’s delusions of being a “workaholic” on Mother Dearest? At the very least, we could make an interesting case for it. Especially in light of Dina’s latest interview. Dina tells Life and Style Magazine that she only did the one season of E!‘s Living Lohan because the E! producers wanted her to do crazy things, like fake a pregnancy. Right:

The Lohans may be known for their crazy antics, but even Dina Lohan puts her foot down when it comes to what she will and won’t do on TV.

“I only did the show to defuse the rumors,” she told Life & Style at the Nylon and Nike sportswear event on June 30. “And then they wanted us to do these crazy things, like my son cheating on his girlfriend, me faking a pregnancy. I was like, ‘No, no, no! They had ideas that weren’t conducive to our ideas.”

The Lohans’ show, Living Lohan, ran during the summer of 2008 on E!

But it looks like we haven’t seen the end of the Lohan clan on TV. “We’re working with another network on another idea,” Dina revealed. “Yeah, not reality per se, but a realistic show.”

[From Life and Style Magazine]

Here’s how I think that actually went down. E! producers came to Dina and told her that Living Lohan sucked, and that they weren’t going to renew the show. Dina then made a series of suggestions for “plotlines” for the show, and said something like: “Oh my gawd, I’ll do anything to keep the show, I can pretend to have a pregnancy scare. NO! I’ll actually get pregnant! I’ll do drugs with my kids! You can film me having sex! Anything to make me famous! Please please please…” E! producers then slowly walked out of the room, making sure they didn’t have their backs to Dina.

Dina Lohan is shown on 4/2/09. Credit: Fame Pictures