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Lindsay Lohan was 19 and making $7 million a picture. Her five biggest films had earned more than half a billion dollars. Six years later the IRS filed liens for $233,904 in unpaid taxes and reportedly seized her bank accounts. When Oprah asked who had helped her with all that money, she said she couldn't think of anyone. "No one really, when I think about it." Oprah asks how much she was making. Lindsay's first answer is "Too much." "I wasted so much money. I was living at a hotel and I had an apartment." "I wasn't really being guided." She doesn't dump it all on other people either. "It's not that I didn't care, but I didn't want to face it." She moved to California at 18. Her mother, Dina, stayed on Long Island with three younger kids in school. Her version, told to Oprah a year later: "I didn't want her to go. I begged and pleaded." "I couldn't stop her, and I didn't have a husband or a team to help me." Her father, Michael, had already done jail time in a securities case when she was 4. Her parents divorced in 2007. In January 2013 he told ET that Dina was "broke without Lindsay." Then Oprah asks the question everyone else asks. Did her parents exploit her? "No. Nobody's perfect. You know, I love my parents." During a fight with her mother, Lindsay had called her father. He secretly recorded the call and made it public. On it, she accused her mother of being on cocaine. She told Oprah that wasn't true. "That killed me." Asked why her father would do that: "I don't think it was towards me. I think it was, you know, his own thing with my mom." And she still defends them both. "I hate what a bad rap people give my parents, because they're just parents, really, at the end of the day." $7 million a picture at 19. $233,904 owed to the IRS at 26. So who failed Lindsay Lohan: the parents she still defends, or the 19-year-old who wasted $7 million a picture?