Lindsay Lohan turned away from morgue shift

Mark Boster

Lindsay Lohan turned up almost an hour late for a community service shift in Thursday morning.

LOS ANGELES - Lindsay Lohan tweeted an apology Thursday after showing up late for a community service gig at a morgue in Los Angeles.

And she revealed that the courtroom drama is starting to get to her.

"With all of the stress and pressure from yesterday and today, I've never been so happy to go to therapy!!!!" she posted.

"Also, I'm sorry for the confusion that I may of caused to those at the Coroner's office," she said. "Won't happen again, now I know where to go! Thank you for your help."

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Morgue officials said they had no choice but to turn the starlet away when she turned up almost an hour late for a community service shift ordered by a frustrated judge.

"She did not appear at the agreed upon time. She was over 45 minutes late," Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey told the Daily News. "She's certainly welcome to come back as long as she arrives at the agreed upon time."

Harvey said Lohan called at 7:40 a.m. to say she was running about 10 minutes late for a shift set to begin at 8 a.m. The 10-minute grace period passed, and Lohan was deemed a no-show.

Lohan posed for her fifth mug shot on Wednesday. (L.A. County Sheriff's Dept.)

"Lindsay arrived at the morgue approximately 20 minutes late and will be returning for orientation tomorrow," her spokesman, Steve Honig, said. "Her lateness was due to a combination of not knowing what entrance to go through and confusion caused by the media waiting for her arrival."

Harvey said it didn't appear that Lohan was detained by paparazzi.

It was just Wednesday that a judge yanked Lohan's probation in her misdemeanor necklace theft and double DUI case saying it appeared the "Mean Girls" star violated a court order when she "blew off" nine community service appointments at a homeless shelter for women.

Judge Stephanie Sautner set a probation violation hearing for Nov. 2 and asked prosecutors to figure out how much jail time Lohan should face if testimony proves she broke the rules.

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"Probation is a gift. It's a gift. It's not a right," Sautner told Lohan Wednesday.

The judge said one of the charges still standing in her DUI case could carry a one-year sentence, though she'd likely serve only a fraction due to jail overcrowding.

Lohan spent a month under house arrest earlier this year after pleading "no contest" to swiping the necklace. She also got 360 hours of community service at the Downtown! Women's Center and 120 hours at the morgue.

The judge ordered Lohan to complete "two days a week minimum" at the morgue before Nov. 2.

"We know she needs to do the time," Harvey told The News. "We do the program on an almost daily basis, and she's welcome to come back."

He said Lohan's responsibilities mostly likely will include mopping floors, stocking restrooms and cutting the plastic ties used to store bodies.

"She might see bodies coming into and leaving the facility, but she'd have no direct contact," he said.