Lohan’s Rehab Blamed on Her Obsession With Little-Known Spider-Man Actor

Was Lindsay Lohan’s unrequited infatuation with actor James Franco what finally sent her over the edge and into drug and alcohol rehab?

This is what sources are telling the New York Daily News, which claims the Spider-Man star rebuffed her at Prince’s Golden Globes after-party at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel Monday night, reducing Lohan to tears.

Lohan reportedly became obsessed with Franco after meeting him at the Prairie Home Companion premiere, and even tried to give the actor an expensive watch, which he refused. According to the News, it’s now the second watch she wears, allegedly as a painful reminder of him.

Uh, Lohan obsessed with James Franco? Wearing a shunned timepiece as a “painful reminder”? What – is it like a Swatch flagellation watch that she pulls extra tight every night like Silas’ barbed garter in The Da Vinci Code?

Considering our photo editor couldn’t even find a picture of Hollywood’s most photographed girl standing next to this dude, we’re calling bull honkey on this one.

So who planted this lovely patch of gossip crabgrass in the papers? Is it a Lohan insider trying to deflect attention from her partying and blaming her rehab on heartache? Or is it Franco’s people trying to increase his profile by claiming that Lindsay had the hots for him?

Either way, here’s hoping that Lindsay gets over her broken heart, and that this item raises Franco’s star power in a way his appearance as “Bar Guy #1” in last year’s film The Wicker Man never could.

(via US Weekly)