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    BEIJING, Oct. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- Lindsay Lohan, the "Mean Girls" actress, will seek a restraining order against her dad, Michael Lohan, who told gossip Web site X17 that he wanted to take Lindsay "to an undisclosed location and get her straight."

    Michael Lohan also had a special message for his daughter during a taping of the Maury Povich Show last Thursday. "I'm gonna do anything and everything I have to save your life, whether mom likes it, the public likes it, or anyone," he said looking into the camera.

    Lindsay Lohan, in New York Monday, didn't immediately reply to a request for comment. But Michael Lohan backed off his strong language in a conversation with Newsday, saying he never meant that he would take his daughter anywhere against her will.

    "I just meant I'd like to detox her myself . . . but of course I'd get arrested," he said.

    "People will twist my words to mean what they want," he said. "The bottom line is, Lindsay needs help, and no one wants to do anything."

    Michael Lohan, who was divorced from Lindsay's mom, Dina, in 2007, said he would travel to Los Angeles this week to seek conservatorship of his daughter.

    However, his ex-wife Dina Lohan wants him to stop blabbing about their 23-year-old daughter, and worry about his own problems, according to People magazine.

    "Michael Lohan needs to focus on being a parent, paying child support, of which he is six months behind, and making up for all the years he was an absentee dad," Dina told People over the weekend. "And stop going on national television talking about his children publicly."

    Lindsay Lohan also doesn't seem too thrilled about this. She's planning to go to court herself to get a restraining order against her dad, a source told People.

    "Lindsay is actively getting a restraining order, her lawyers have already been contacted," the source told People. "She's scared. This is really serious."

    (Agencies)