Lindsay Lohan: Single, 'Responsible, Ready to Work'

April 23, 2009 — -- After the DUIs, the rehab stints and the breakup heard 'round the world, Lindsay Lohan wants nothing more than to get back to work.

Today, the much-scrutinized starlet opened up to Ellen DeGeneres about her desire to be taken seriously and her highly-publicized breakup from DJ Samantha Ronson earlier this month.

"I didn't get into this business to be a celebrity on the cover of tabloids and I've been a target and I'm not that interesting," Lohan said in an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres" show today. "It distracts people, studio heads, everyone and they get nervous. I've been through a lot. I was 19 years old when things happened and I'm ready to work. I'm responsible and I can be on time and I learn from my mistakes."

Lohan, clad in a minidress that highlighted her frail frame, revealed that she was blindsided by the end of her almost year-long relationship with Ronson.

"I had no idea what was going on. I just hadn't seen her in like a week. She like disappeared," she told DeGeneres.

But Lohan, 22, said she and Ronson, 31, "are friends" and they're still talking. She hopes they'll eventually reconcile.

"I'm not looking to be with anyone right now," she told DeGeneres. "I don't need to deal with that. It gets to distracting from everything that I need to focus on. Leaving town, you miss someone too much and you don't want to go sometimes but I really care about Samantha and we'll see what happens. Maybe when were fully in the right place ... and I love her."

Lohan laughed off the reports that Ronson's family sought a restraining order against her in the days following their breakup, saying, "What am I going to do? ... I've never done anything for people to assume I'm dangerous."

She also said she never cheated on Ronson because she doesn't "believe in cheating on someone. ... I watched my father do that to my mother my entire life."

Lohan's father, Michael Lohan, immediately reacted, telling reporters, "While I'm thankful it seems Lindsay is finally taking my advice and presumably is getting her career back on track, it disturbs me that she still continues to take the focus off of herself and accuse me of cheating on her mother when I only did so when Dina and I were separated."