A blubbering Lindsay Lohan tried to whine her way out of a jail sentence yesterday — but wound up with 90 days in the slammer.
The “Mean Girls” actress got the harsher-than-expected penalty from a no-nonsense Beverly Hills judge for repeatedly blowing off alcohol counseling after two drunken-driving busts.
The jail sentence — triple what prosecutors were seeking — caused the red-eyed Lohan, 24, to break down into even more sobs and came after she’d already spent several minutes begging the judge for leniency.
“I’m not taking this as a joke — it’s my life, and it’s my career,” the star insisted to stern-faced Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel.
“It’s something I’ve worked for my entire life,” Lohan said, dabbing her eyes. “I know I was ordered to go once a week, and . . . I wasn’t missing classes, I was working, mostly. It wasn’t vacation. It wasn’t some kind of joke . . . I’ve been taking it seriously.”
Lohan even tried to blame her booze and drug counselors for her mistakes, suggesting that they had approved her absences.
“As far as I had known, I was in compliance,” she said. “Had I been taken aside and told [otherwise] then, that would have been a different story.”
But John Marshall, who runs one of the treatment facilities that Lohan attended, said in a letter to the judge, “Her excuses are endless and disrespectful.”
Revel accused the Long Island-born actress of trying to pull a fast one on her, saying, “It’s like somebody who cheats doesn’t think it’s cheating unless they get caught.
Lohan “comes and goes as she pleases,” the miffed judge said. “There’s been a history of that.”
Revel had already heard many of Lohan’s excuses.
After the former Disney child star began lagging on her court-ordered counseling sessions last year, the judge ordered her to step things up and start attending once a week.
Instead, Lohan missed classes during seven separate weeks afterward.
Some of her excuses ranged from the death of an uncle — whose funeral she never attended — to having to be at events to promote a new clothing line.
Lohan infamously skipped one class and missed a required court appearance in late May — when she was photographed partying at the Cannes Film Festival.
She later said she wasn’t able to return to the United States in time for her court date because she had lost her passport.
Deputy DA Danette Meyers yesterday mocked Lohan’s tears and told the judge that the only way the star would learn a lesson was by being locked up.
“You have not caught her attention,” Meyers told the judge.
“When you ordered her to go [to counseling] every week, [she] didn’t catch it. When you ordered [an alcohol-sensing] device . . . it didn’t catch her attention.
“And I don’t think you’ve caught it,” he told Lohan. “I appreciate the tears, but I don’t think you caught it.”
Lohan was ordered to start serving her jail sentence July 20.
In all likelihood, she will be headed to the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., the same jail that hosted Paris Hilton in 2007 for violating her probation on a reckless-driving conviction.
Revel said she was socking Lohan with 30 days for reckless driving and another 30 days for driving under the influence for her May 26, 2007, bust.
She then piled on 30 more days for a DUI bust on July 24, 2007.
As Revel handed down the first 30-day sentence, a wide-eyed Lohan turned to her lawyer and asked, “What?”
When Revel handed down the next two 30-day sentences, Lohan crumpled into tears at the defense table.
After she gets out of jail, she will have only two days of freedom before entering a court-ordered, in-patient, substance-abuse program for another 90 days.
Lohan’s estranged dad, Michael, broke down in tears in the court gallery after his daughter was sentenced, then dramatically stood up and fled the room.
Outside, Michael Lohan said, “The system failed her.”
Lindsay’s latest gal pal, Israeli stunner Eilat Anschel, also was in court for the marathon hearing.
Afterward, the two ducked into their chauffeur-driven car and sped away.
Lohan’s months in the clink won’t slam the door on all her career prospects.
The producer of her latest project, “Inferno,” the biopic of porn star Linda Lovelace, said the film’s start date will be postponed from September to accommodate Lohan.
“We are doing the movie with Lindsay and shall wait however long until her debt to society is satisfied in respect to her recent sentencing,” said Chris Hanley.
It wasn’t immediately clear how much time Lindsay will actually spend in the overcrowded LA County jail system.
Nonviolent, female inmates tend to do about 25 percent of their sentence before they’re booted because of space limitations, according to sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.
The “Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen” and “Freaky Friday” actress will be put in segregated custody for her own protection, Whitmore added.
Earlier in the day, it looked as if Lohan was going to catch a break from Revel.
The judge revealed that Lohan’s alcohol-sensing bracelet went off June 6, when the actress was partying at the MTV Movie Awards, and showed that she had a 0.03 blood-alcohol content.
By the time the device took another reading at 4 a.m. June 7, there was no detectable booze in her system, the judge noted.
The prosecutor had argued that that fact alone showed Lohan should go to jail. But Revel agreed with the defense that the booze bracelet was only a condition of bail and not probation.