By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

UPDATE: Michael Lohan has responded to Lindsay's Rep's comments:

I just got called by the NY Daily News and as your texts indicate, you are a pathetic liar! I misjudged you and I will rip you a new butthole in the press you butthole! I am going to paint you as a coward who said he cares, knew all of her problems and even told me things about her and the people around her, including Dina but now because you care about your job and money more!!! Coward!

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Lindsay Lohan's camp is firing back at reports that Michael Lohan is aligned with her legal and management team in an effort to get the embattled starlet to go to rehab, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"It's apparent Michael continues to be very focused on getting publicity for himself. Lindsay's team is in no way aligned with him or his actions," Lohan's rep, Steve Honig, tells Breaking Celebrity News.

As we previously reported, several of Lindsay's friends have confirmed that the Liz & [expletive] star is partying and out of control as her father Michael attempts to put the star under a conservatorship.

"People who party with Lindsay have confirmed her excessive partying and getting wasted," one source in Los Angeles told Breaking Celebrity News. "They act one way to her face, but have been telling different stories behind her back.