UPDATED 9.38am: Lindsay Lohan has claimed she had to move the dead body of Whitney Houston, during her community service.

She was handed the punishment by a California court for a probation violation.. and part of her service in 2011 included working 12-hour shifts at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.

During her time working at the morgue, Lohan claims she had to "roll a body bag" containing the corpse of Houston.

But her claims are being dismissed as pure fiction.

Morgue officials say Whitney Houston was never put in a bag and no one on Lindsay Lohan's program got near her.

The 28-year-old starlet insists she took pride in her work at the morgue but had an epiphany while there that she needed to overhaul her hard partying lifestyle.

She's currently in London preparing for a stage play.