Actress Lindsay Lohan, who was just fresh out of rehab and whose late-night partying with the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears fuelled tabloid headlines, said "it is time to cool down," according to media reports Friday. (Photo:chinadaily.com.cn)

Actress Lindsay Lohan, who was just fresh out of rehab and whose late-night partying with the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears fuelled tabloid headlines, said "it is time to cool down," according to media reports Friday.

Lohan told the media: "Everybody's tired of hearing things about me and them, (Hilton and Spears), so I think it's just better for me to lie low and get better."

Lohan started to play in movies since she was a kid. With her fame growing, she had been persistently hounded by the paparazzi as she was nearly caught out club hopping weekly in Los Angeles.

In July 2006, the producer of "Georgia Rule," wrote a letter to Lohan in which he called her behaviour "discourteous, irresponsible and unprofessional" because she was showing up late to the movie's set of "Georgia Rule," in which Lohan portrays a troubled young woman.

Lohan said she was upset as she felt herself "a bit irresponsible," "I didn't think about the consequences, but I was also going through something in my life."

At the time, she was ending the relationship with then boyfriend Harry Morton, who is the son of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino founder Peter Morton.

But her partying ways grew harder, at one point prompting the New York Post to run a picture of Hilton, Spears and Lohan out on the town under the headline "Bimbo Summit."

The 20-year-old actress said in January she had checked into the Wonderland Center in Los Angeles "to take care of my personal health." Her publicist confirmed in December that Lohan was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Lohan then said she had been going to the meetings for a year.

Lohan said she felt safe while she was in rehab, but did not consider herself an addict.

"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said I would die before I went to rehab," Lohan told Allure magazine in an interview in its May issue.

Lohan also said she tried too hard to make others happy while not taking stock of herself.

"It's very hard to live your life as a double life. To make myself happy as well as everyone else. Because that's just in me: to keep everyone around me happy," she said, later adding that "You forget. You lose track of taking care of yourself."

Editor: Donald