plus, disturbing new insight into lindsay lohan's drug addiction. highly emotional tapes reveal her parents struggle to get her help. we will play the tapes as she sobs uncontrollably over the phone. is her life spiraling out of control? why is her dad releasing these tapes? is it to get lindsay help or to get him publicity? "issues" starts now. tonight, an sun imaginable massacre at ft. hood army base in texas in a horrifying rampage, at least one gunman opened fire hours ago killing 11 victims and injuring 31 other people. two others were also taken into custody. all three suspects are reportedly u.s. soldiers. >> at this time, the numbers that we're looking at are 12 dead and 31 wounded. and they're dispersed among the local hospitals here in the area. again, the extent of injuries

i want to move to lindsay lohan's smack down with her own father. too is over prescription drugs. michael has been going around telling the world that lindsay is addicted to prescription drugs and going after conservatorship because she won't go to rehab. she took to her twitter page and wrote this. my father is a lunatic and doesn't deserve such a title because he hasn't been around other than when he threatened me and my family. after verbally abusing and physically abusing people. it's sad to get a phone call from my baby sister asking why is daddy doing this. he crossed a line and hurt me and my family for the last time. i'm going to spend time with the ones that love me and i love now. does she have the right to be furious? >> i don't think so. personally this is not coming out of the blue. she has a history of trouble. car accidents, high speed chase and dui. very recently she was an hour and a half late to court and got slapped with another extra year of probation and a judge is warning her to take the classes seriously. i think she has a tra

why even lindsay lohan's train wreck dad is part of it. i've got your ring side seat for the circus. levi johnston is making a shocking legal move of his own. he's launching a new fight today against sarah palin. this is going to be ugly. and also this. >> that's incredible. she not think anybody would notice? that's outrageous. >> what video did "showbiz tonight" show that woman that left her speechless? >> these are more stories from the "showbiz tonight" newsroom. >>> welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i am brooke anderson with a.j. hammer. rooting for rihanna. rihanna should be feeling great being honored as one of glamour magazine's women of the year. "showbiz tonight" was talking to rihanna for the first time since her explosive abuse tell-all interview on abc. with us tonight in new york is janelle snoweden, just sat down with rihanna who told her a haunting revelation how her tragedy may have changed women's lives forever. rihanna was very reluctant to answer our questions about her emotional abc interview about the night chris bro

. >>> brand-new tonight, it's lohan versus lohan. lindsay goes after her dad, michael, in a startling public rant. she even calls him a lunatic. will lindsay take her own dad to court? >>> and for the very first time, the mother of the baby that miraculo miraculous survived after getting hit by a train speaks out. >>> and now the "showbiz news ticker." more stories from the "showbiz tonight" newsroom making news right now. >>> tonight, will jay leno return to "the tonight show"? in a brand-new interview revealed today with broadcasting and cable magazine, leno says he'd rather have stayed on "the tonight show." and leno says if he was asked, he'd go back. right now t"the tonight show" hosted by conan o'brien is getting beaten by david letterman and leno's 10:00 p.m. show isn't doing so hot, but no changes are in the works yet. >>> welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm brooke anderson in hollywood. tonight, three very scary stalker stories involving three big stars. brand-new breaking details late today about "american idol" host ryan seacre

will it be palin, disgraced beauty queen, carrie prejean, or lindsay lohan's dad, michael? tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. >>> hello. i'm a.j. hammer, broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. >> hi, there, everyone. i'm brooke anderson, coming to you tonight from hollywood. tonight, cindy crawford's extortion nightmare. i've got to tell you, when i first heard about this story, it made me sick. cindy crawford's daughter photographed when she was just 7 years old, in revealing clothing, bound and gagged. and today a man is accused of trying to get crawford to give him big-time money so he would not make the photo public. and if that's not disturbing enough, today we learned the disgusting picture was taken by the girl's nanny. and it all made for big news breaking today. >> reporter: it's a sick, twisted story that plays out like an episode of "law & order," only this script is very real. cindy crawford and her business mogul husband, randy gerber, are fighting back tonight over an alleged extortion plot for tens of thousands o

plus lindsay lohan's dad begging her to go rehab and now releasing shocking new phone calls that prove lindsay needs help. do you believe him? we're talking your calls. call me. >> but now i want to hear from you. >> send your e-mail or i-report to jane and tell her about your story. could you win an ought graphed cope of her new book and get a chance to meet her in new york. go to cnn.com/jane for details and pick up your copy of "i want" today at book sell sers everywhere and don't forget to catch jane every night at 7:00 eastern. >> let's meet today's winner, wanda from chicago. what a great story. after she wrote in seeing our coverage of the cleveland house of horrors, she says she lived a similar life to some of the victims. forced into prostitution by her own brother so he could feed his habit, she admits she was an addict when she had her son but now he is an honor constituent. in 2003, she quit on her own after what she calls a divine intervention. she went home and slept for three days and now getting ready to take the test to become a drug and alcohol counselor. way to go, w

because the list of child stars with trouble with drugs and alcohol -- i mean lindsay lohan, danny bonaduce, britney spears, todd bridges, dana plato, tatum o'neal, cory feldman, and michael jackson. what is the reason that child stars have such troubles, do you think? there are some that didn't. >> there are some that didn't. i think that there are two things. it's kind of what came first, the chicken or the egg. the personality type that is precocious at a young age, that is drawn to performing and talent and all that stuff has sort of these issues of insecurity so they're compensating by performing. are those some of the things that might be underlying all that addictive behavior? and then do all of the permissiveness of being in the business, growing up in an adult business, being allowed to do things at an early age? that plays into it too and adds on an extra layer. so, i think it's a combination of things. i don't think one necessarily makes the other. >> do you think you were unprotected by the family? >> not at all. my family was incredibly involved. my parents did everything they

>>> and lindsay lohan's downward spiral. the actress goes off on her dad. calling him a lunatic who's never been involved in his life. when said lindsay look like she was 100 years old and needed help with her drug addiction. he claims lindsay's mom will soon will o.d. and could, quote, end up like heath ledger. is lindsay lohan playing with her life. >>> and also inside of the mind of a sexual deviant. the halloween mad man. is speaking out from behind bars. tonight, we'll play his head-spinning comments on air. he tortured a woman for 13 hours on halloween night. now four years later he's talking to "inside edition" and you're not going to believe what he's saying. >>> plus it's happened again. the secret life of another celebrity sportscaster expose. jim nantz perhaps the most popular sports commentator in the country, but now a nasty divorce is revealing some of his dark secrets as his 26-year marriage collapses, we now learn he had an affair with a woman two decades his junior. we'll have all the juicy details. "issues" starts now. >>> tonight, three co

. >>> john's bizarre brand new multimillion-dollar quart fight, and why lindsay lohan's train wreck dad is part of it. tv's provocative entertainment show starts right now. >>> i am a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. >> and the conservative family values beauty queen admitted first thing this morning on "today" show made a sex tape of herself. >> if you want to call it a sex tape, that's fine. >> what do you call it? >> it was me, by myself, and nobody else was with me, i was not having sex. >> yes, she did say today she made a sex tape but she was not having sex, at least not with somebody else. and she went on a confession show all morning long. she calls the tape the biggest mistake of her life, but she is not apologizing. prejean came out swinging today claiming she is the target of the same people that attacked sarah palin. and it's the beauty versus the donald. wait until you hear her startling her claims about donald trump humiliating beauty queens like herself. and megan alexander, who is a correspondent. carie made the news sir kooews . and she

palin, carrie prejean, or lindsay lohan's dad, michael? tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. . >> i'm a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. >> coming to you from hollywood, tonight the extortion nightmare. when i first heard about this story, it made me sick. supermodel cindy crawford's daughter photographed when she was just 7 years old in revealing clothing, bound and gagged. today a man is accused of trying to get crawford to give him big time money not to make the photo public. if that's not disturbing enough, we learn the disgusting picture was taken by the girl's nanny and it made for big news breaking today. . >> it's a sick, twisted story that plays out like an episode of law and order only this script is very real. cindy crawford and her husband randy gerber are fighting back over a plot for tens of thousands of dollars. the worst part of this drama, the reported scheme involves a provocative photo of their young daughter. i photo they didn't even know was taken. court docu

what about lindsay lohan. >> i love -- see, i love lindsay lohan. >> she's cute, nice girl. mentioned in the same breath with all those other crazy people because she's actually a very talented actress but has the crazy parents and all that. >> she's saying her father wants conservatorship over here. isn't she, like, 40? >> she's young. >> she's too old for her father to have conservativeship over here. >> conservativeship? what the hell does that mean? >> i don't know. >> conservative what? >> he says she should be -- she says he should be behind bars. about her father. she says he -- >> he should be behind bars. no question. you know, he's the reason. it's always the father. >> it's the father. okay. speaking of that, what about -- >> and the mother leaves you in the dust. >> the mother -- >> then you become a comedian and it's all horrible. >> it's never any good. >> look, if you want a close-up, look, it's true. the italians, we do have a little oil coming off of us. >> now, speaking of mothers -- >> mommy. >> -- what about -- what about kate gosselin? >> let me tell you

. >> lindsay lohan's dad. >> oh, the lohan guy. >> she was studying your notes.is and freud. >> the gift that keeps on giving only to us. >> but the cops were called in to mediate. what about the children, doesn't it give them a false sense of security to be around these two for christmas thinking that they're then going to be going together again? >> well, i certainly think that from a legal perspective that whoever made the decision that joint custody meant joint christmas wasn't really thinking about the best interests of the children. they were thinking about the best interests of ratings and fodder for people like us to talk about. >> it's not going to be televised, but that brings me to the next question, which is because it's not going to be televised, do you think that they're doing this, the gosselins, to get on television? is that too cynical of me, penn? >> well, i don't know of somebody that has a show with their name on it can accuse people of going for publicity. you have a show with your name on it. that's the way we see it, i guess. i don't know,

. >> lindsay lohan's dad. >> oh, the lohan guy. >> she was studying your notes. you gotta know this stuff. >> it's this and freud. >> the gift that keeps on giving only to us. >> but the cops were called in to mediate. what about the children, doesn't it give them a false sense of security to be around these two for christmas thinking that they're then going to be going together again? >> well, i certainly think that from a legal perspective that whoever made the decision that joint custody meant joint christmas wasn't really thinking about the best interests of the children. they were thinking about the best interests of ratings and fodder for people like us to talk about. >> it's not going to be televised, but that brings me to the next question, which is because it's not going to be televised, do you think that they're doing this, the gosselins, to get on television? is that too cynical of me, penn? >> well, i don't know of somebody that has a show with their name on it can accuse people of going for publicity. you have a show with your name on it. that's the