Lindsay Lohan has a message for her critics: Back off. The much-scrutinized star, 22, is speaking out about her sobriety and her relationship with girlfriend Samantha Ronson, among other things. "They need to stop saying we're fighting," Lohan tells E! News regarding reports about her romance with the 31-year-old deejay. "People telling lies about me to her and all this garbage. I'm really a good person and I have a good heart and just want to work," says Lohan. "The only reason I go to clubs is to hear Samantha spin or be normal." The actress, who briefly had an arrest warrant issued for her, also urges people not to believe everything they read. "I don't drink, I don't do drugs and I don't lie," she said. "I love to act and write and be creative, and I want to help people by playing characters that can send a positive message out to whomever may need it." The actress, who recently dished about wanting to work with Seth Rogen, says she is trying to tune out all the chatter about her personal life and focus on her career. "I move forward and I change. Life's too short not to. If people would just leave my personal life alone – because it's really not that interesting – then I could land a great role. But all the sicko fans and the noise is so distracting." And the star still has many goals she wants to accomplish. "I'd like to have my own charity, do work overseas, be in Oscar-nominated films, write movies, produce movies/shows/videos, design cloths, make music, write books," she says. "It's all possible if people would just stop judging me and accusing me and making me out to be this aloof, spoiled, ungrateful and unprofessional person that I am not and could never be."

Linda Hogan continues to retaliate against controversial comments made by her estranged husband Hulk Hogan in a Rolling Stone interview. In a press statement released by her rep Gary Smith, Linda says: "Hulk thinks he can do whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, whenever he wants. He is your classic narcissist who demands total control and will go to any extent necessary to get it. His violent and scary mood swings have been my nightmare for too many years. I hope for the sake of our kids that he gets the psychological help for himself and the safety of others." In the Rolling Stone interview that triggered the controversy, Hulk said, "I could've turned everything into a crime scene, like O.J. (Simpson), cutting everybody's throat. You see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, sleeping in your bed, with your wife. I mean, I totally understand O.J." On Wednesday, a rep for Hogan made a follow-up statement to ET regarding the article: "Hulk in no way condones the O.J. situation. As part of a larger conversation, he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation." In Linda's latest statement, Smith says: "For those who buy his claim the comment was taken out of context, read the rest of Rolling Stone and determine for yourself if his suicidal tendencies coupled with the use of drugs and alcohol make him a danger. His actions in the past years have been very disturbing. Linda wants all of this to be over so she can move on with her life."

In response to the fallout stemming from controversial comments made in a recent magazine interview by Hulk Hogan, his daughter Brooke Hogan is sounding off in defense of her famous father. It's an ET exclusive! "I cannot believe how blown out of proportion one small part of a seven-page article has become," Brooke says. "It's a classic case of a quote being taken out of context. I look up to my father in every way. He has been through so much and has taken the high road through it all. The idea that he would condone the O.J. situation is just outrageous." In the Rolling Stone interview that triggered the controversy, Hulk addressed his frustrations regarding his divorce with estranged wife Linda Hogan, saying, "I could've turned everything into a crime scene, like O.J. (Simpson), cutting everybody's throat. You see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, sleeping in your bed, with your wife. I mean, I totally understand O.J." On Wednesday, a rep for Hogan made a follow-up statement to ET regarding the article: "Hulk in no way condones the O.J. situation. As part of a larger conversation, he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation." Earlier this week, his estranged wife released a statement through her rep Gary Smith that read: "Hulk thinks he can do whatever he wants, to whomever he wants, whenever he wants. He is your classic narcissist who demands total control and will go to ANY extent necessary to get it. His violent and scary mood swings have been my nightmare for too many years. I hope for the sake of our kids that he gets the psychological help for himself and the safety of others."

What do you get when you mix American Idol’s Irish belter Carly Smithson and Grammy-winning rock group Evanescence? Evidently, a brand new band called The Fallen. Smithson, who’s been compared to former Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee (pictured right) since her Idol run on season 7, is joining three of the four original group members. “We began looking for our soulmate, which we were scared was going to take a long, long time,” founding guitarist Ben Moody told the Los Angeles Times blog Idol Tracker. But they found Smithson, who called the offer “pretty awesome.” “I’m excited to be able to completely jump out of the box,” she said. “The Idol thing, you know, was very PG, it was for a family audience … I’ve never been more happy than being in this band.”

David Beckham is paying the price for getting into a shouting match with hecklers at a soccer game! The commissioner of Major League Soccer fined Beckham $1000 on Friday following a verbal spat five days earlier between the star and some rowdy fans, says the Associated Press. During the halftime of an exhibition game, Beckham shouted at a group of fans who'd been heckling him, daring them to come down from the stands onto the soccer field. The AP says he even attempted to hoist himself over some advertising boards, but secured stepped in. Police ended up arresting one spectator who left the stands.

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has sued beauty pageant organizers claiming she was wrongfully fired for saying marriage should be only between a man and a woman, her lawyer said on Monday. Two months after her controversial statement at the Miss USA pageant in April, organizers fired Prejean saying she broke her contract by failing to make appearances on their behalf. Prejean's attorney Charles LiMandri said pageant officials based their decision to terminate her contract on invitations Prejean received for events she was never required to attend. "There was a strained relationship, and it became that way when she gave that answer and would not back off of it. That's what this is really all about," LiMandri told Reuters. Prejean, 22, made headlines worldwide when she said she believed only men and women should be allowed to wed in reply to a question by a gay celebrity blogger and pageant judge. She subsequently was named first runner-up. In the weeks that followed, she claimed the answer cost her the Miss USA crown. Her answer came as political leaders across the United States were considering whether to adopt or ban gay marriage, and she became a lightning rod of attention on the topic. Prejean drew support from gay marriage opponents, and she angered those who backed same-sex weddings. She agreed to appear in advertisements opposing state laws allowing same-sex couples to wed, and she became a fill-in host for television program "Fox & Friends," generally considered a conservative show on the Fox News Channel. Topless photos of Prejean appeared on the Internet and word spread that the pageant helped her pay for breast implants. Pageant organizers initially retained Prejean, but in June they fired her claiming she had violated her contract by not making appearances on their behalf. Prejean's lawsuit was filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court. LiMandri said she is seeking damages of an undetermined amount. Celebrity businessman and TV personality Donald Trump, who owns the Miss USA pageant with which Miss California USA is associated, was not named in the lawsuit. Roger Neal, a spokesman for pageant organizers declined immediate comment.

Disgraced talk-show host David Letterman has publicly apologized to his wife for cheating on her before they were married. Speaking for the first time since exposing an extortion attempt that set out to shame the TV personality as a love rat, and confessing to a string of affairs with colleagues, Letterman had a special message for his wife Regina Lasko during a taping of his Late Show program on Monday. In his monologue at the beginning of the show, he said, "She has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it's your responsibility, you try to fix it. "At that point, there's only two things that can happen -- either you're going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you're going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed. So let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me." He also apologized to the ex-staff members he has inadvertently dragged into the scandal. Letterman added, "I'm terribly sorry that I put the staff in that position... My thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I've gotten myself involved in."

Mike Tyson wouldn't bite. not when Evander Holyfield called up expecting an apology. Not when Oprah suggested he finally make things right. Still missing a bit of that ear? But, really, what's there to say after all these years? "This is a beautiful guy," said Tyson, holding Holyfield's arm Friday in a tender moment that surely had millions of Oprah fans reaching for tissues all over the country. "I just want you to know it's been a pleasure passing through life being acquainted with you." Tyson may have disappointed Oprah, who invested not one, but two, shows in the former heavyweight champion this week. But boxers don't usually say they're sorry about much, and, for all the soul searching Tyson has been doing lately, he still remains convinced that biting Holyfield's ear was just payback for being head butted in their infamous 1997 fight. Besides, apologies are so overrated these days, as Serena Williams showed us at the U.S. Open last month. No need to show any sincere remorse when there are no real consequences for your actions. Rush Limbaugh certainly wasn't apologizing this week for any of the incendiary comments he made over the years getting in the way of his bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. Much easier to blame someone else, like his partner in the effort and the media who were involved in "repeating the lies" about him. Limbaugh's scorched earth policy probably made him feel better about the whole botched bid, though it ensured he will never have any part of the league he professes to love. Florida State wasn't apologizing either, even after the release of NCAA documents that indicated one "student-athlete" on the football team had an IQ of 60 and others were reading at the second-grade level. Coach Bobby Bowden has been in the game long enough to know that you don't beat Florida by recruiting a bunch of Rhodes scholars. Then again, it had to be a bit embarrassing to find out that in place of requiring SAT scores for admission, recruits only had to prove they could master the illustrated version of "See Spot Run." And there were no apologies coming out of Mannywood, even though Manny Ramirez hasn't been able to hit an inside fast ball since he returned from a 50-game suspension for using a female fertility drug and is a big drag in the Dodger postseason lineup. Come to think of it, Manny hasn't apologized for anything, and probably never will. It might also be that few apologize anymore because it's so hard to do. Just look at LeGarrette Blount's formal apology for decking a Boise State football player, which either took him weeks to prepare or was done by the University of Oregon public relations department. And consider the plight of Australian golfer Robert Allenby, who went off on Anthony Kim after he was beaten badly by the young American on the final day of the Presidents Cup last weekend. Allenby called Kim the "loosest cannon on that team" and said he was doubly upset because he had it on good word that Kim was out partying until four in the morning and was probably suffering from a bad hangover when he beat him. When it came time for offering the obligatory mea culpa, though, Allenby didn't go on Oprah. Instead, the PGA Tour issued a vague statement saying that maybe someone might have misinterpreted something he said and that he and Kim were still great buddies no matter what. Kim accepted the apology via a tour issued statement of his own, then headed for Las Vegas, where the tour issued a statement that he missed the cut. Oprah had to be expecting more out of Tyson, who first appeared Monday to talk about his tortured life and choke up whenever he talked about his kids. The appearance was to promote his movie, which consists of Tyson talking about his tortured life and choking up when he talks about his kids. Holyfield apparently saw it and called Oprah asking that she host a program where Tyson could say he was sorry, Holyfield could forgive him, and everyone could share a group hug. It didn't quite turn out that way, though Oprah tried her best. "Can you feel the love people have for you?" she asked Tyson at one point. The way Tyson was pouring his heart out to Oprah he seems sorry for a lot of things he has done in his life. Surely he's sorry that he can't fight off a bizarre compulsion to keep telling the world about them. But apologize for biting Holyfield's ear? Sorry, not a chance.