Lindsay Lohan facing Criminal Battery charges at Betty Ford

Controversial actress Lindsay Lohan was involved in a physical altercation with a female staffer from Betty Ford Clinic after she and her roommates returned from a bar ten minutes after their curfew on December 12.

“Hand-to-hand battery” accusations is now being investigated and the staffer expressed her desire to prosecute Lindsay for criminal battery.

Lindsay claims that the female staff member was "unfairly" scolding her and demanded the actress take a drug/alcohol test. During their arguments the said staffer "put her hands on Lindsay". The 24 year-old actress claims she told the woman, "Take your hands off of me" and then "pushed back."

Linday is now facing six months in jail for this incident because she is still on probation from her DUI arrest back in 2007.

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