Court Enforced Rehab Stint will Be A "blessing" By Lindsay Lohan

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan says she is expecting rehab to be "a blessing and not a curse".

Lohan was given a 90-day court order to go to rehab next month as part of a plea bargain over a traffic offence.

In her first interview since November 2012, she was speaking to TV talk show host David Letterman in a pre-recorded interview for his Late Show.

Pressed about what was in store for her, how many times she had been in rehab, how this time would be different, and what she was being treated for, the 26-year-old was reticent in her answers, saying she had not expected the line of questioning.

She said instead that she wanted to be healthy and focus on what she loved - her work.

"No, I think, to be honest, I'm the happiest when I'm working and the healthiest, and I think this an opportunity for me to, you know, focus on what I love in life. And I don't think it's a bad thing. I think it's a blessing ... and not a curse."

The Mean Girls actress' Hollywood career has been blighted by repeated court cases and erratic behaviour since 2007.

Lohan was ordered in March to spend three months in a locked rehab facility, do 30 days of community work, and see a therapist for 18 months in a plea bargain over charges arising from a June 2012 car crash in Southern California.