PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan Back Out At Night - A Zebra Doesn't Change Its Stripes

"If I were the alcoholic everyone says I am, then putting a alcohol-monitoring bracelet on would have ended me up in detox, in the emergency room, because I would have had to come down from all the things that people say I'm taking and my father says I'm taking,” she told the magazine. “So that says something, because I was fine."

She also told the magazine that the last few years have been more of a young woman's rite of passage, not a celebrity meltdown.

"These were my college years ... but they were in the public eye," she said. "I was irresponsible. I was experimenting. I was doing certain things that people do 10 times more of when they're in college."

Lohan was granted an early release from her rehab stint at UCLA Medical Center last month, yet still has to meet certain conditions of the court, including five AA meetings a week, frequent visits to a mental health professional, and residency in the state until November.