A stint at Utah's Cirque Lodge last year seems to have done the trick for actress and former train-wreck Lindsay Lohan.

Giving her first post-rehab interview to Harper's Bazaar, Lohan, 22, is pretty candid about her hard-partying past: "I did it to myself, and I have to deal with the consequences. I'm thankful for what I can take out of it. Now I feel clear. That's my past, and I'm a different person now. I have goals and I'm working to achieve them. I'm not hanging out with people who are out every night getting f---ed up. ... And, I think that I'm happy."

In the interview, she talks elliptically about her relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson (though Lohan never mentions Ronson by name, because "I feel like it jinxes it"), and says she doesn't classify herself as a lesbian - though "maybe, yeah," a bisexual. She also talks about rebuilding her music and movie career, both of which were hurt by a reputation for erratic work habits.

Hollywood, she said, "builds you up to take you down and then sees how far you can come back. ... I don't really worry, though. I'm a fighter. I'm up for a challenge, and I won't settle."

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Actress Kirsten Dunst talks, guardedly, about her recent visit to Utah's Cirque Lodge rehab facility in the upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar (which features her smiling face on the cover, timed to promote her upcoming movie, "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People").

"I don't want to get into too much detail," Dunst tells interviewer Marshall Heyman, "because I give a quote and then it's blogged about on the Internet for the rest of my life." (Like this one.)

But Dunst does get into what brought her to the Cirque Lodge, when she was "enormously co-dependent":

"I wasn't taking care of myself emotionally. I wasn't expressing my anger. I was making nice all the time. When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people’s approval. If I’d trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it. ... Now, I’m great."

The new issue hits newsstands Sept. 23.

(Photo by Alexi Lubomirski/Harper's Bazaar)

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One gossip blog is floating the rumor that Mackenzie Phillips, teen star of the '70s sitcom "One Day at a Time," may be heading for Utah's Cirque Lodge rehab facility.

Phillips was arrested Wednesday at LAX, accused of carrying balloons of heroin and cocaine. She got out on bail Thursday.

If she goes to Cirque Lodge - a facility famed for such famous clientele as Lindsay Lohan, Eva Mendes and Kirsten Dunst - what will be waiting for her? The Chicago Tribune this week took a peek inside the facility to find out.

(Photo: Socialite Life)

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The intent of this article, written by folks at the Cirque Lodge in Sundance, is noble enough: To take the fear out of drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

But the headline is laughably tasteless: "Making drug rehab fun."

The Cirque Lodge has become a popular destination for Hollywood celebrities dealing with addiction. It's recently been popular with celebs who deny they have addiction problems: Eva Mendes checked in recently, it was reported, to do research for a role - and Kirsten Dunst told E! Online she went there because of depression.

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You can only trust Page Six, the New York Post's gossip page, as far as you can throw it - so take that into consideration with this news that Shawn Southwick King, former Provo resident and current wife of CNN host Larry King, is going into rehab for a painkiller addiction.

Shawn King, 48, has gone public in the past about her problems with chronic migraines.

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