Update (August 13, 11 A.M.) Lindasy Lohan released an apology to People on Monday about her comments on the #MeToo movement. “I would like to unreservedly apologize for any hurt and distress caused by a quote in a recent interview with The Times,” she said. “The quote solely related to my hope that a handful of false testimonies out of a tsunami of heroic voices do not serve to dilute the importance of the #MeToo movement, and all of us who champion it.”
She continued: “I feel very strongly about the #MeToo movement and have the utmost respect and admiration for the women brave enough to come forward and speak out about their experiences. Their testimony has served to protect those who can’t speak, and give strength to those who have struggled to have their voices heard.”
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Last month, MTV announced that it was featuring Lindsay Lohan in a new, currently unnamed, reality series. Before things can really get started for that show, though, Lohan is already drawing some reality series–worthy attention to herself. In a new interview with The Times, Lohan decided it was wise to comment on the #MeToo movement. A general rule? If you know you’re going to regret saying something before you say it, maybe it’s a good idea . . . not to say it.
“You make it a real thing by making it a police report,” she said about accusations of sexual misconduct. “I’m going to really hate myself for saying this, but I think by women speaking against these things, it makes them look weak when they are very strong women.”
She then added that she didn’t really have much to add to the conversation, but kept talking anyway. “So, I don’t really have anything to say. I can’t speak on something I didn’t live, right? Look, I am very supportive of women. Everyone goes through their own experiences in their own ways.” But, at the same time, the Times reported, Lohan spoke out against “attention-seekers.”
Then, things seemed to get a little awkward. Lohan references her own past relationship, with ex-boyfriend Egor Tarabasov, and the fight they had on a Mykonos beach that was captured in painful detail by paparazzi cameras.
Lohan, who grew up in Hollywood and had much-publicized struggles within it, has spent most of the past few years living in Europe and Dubai, seemingly ensconced in a bubble of foreign privilege and living many worlds away from the industry that made her famous, and has been rocked by the #MeToo movement for nearly a year. And Lohan, though playing no role in the ongoing reckoning, can’t seem to resist commenting on it. In a now-deleted video from October, Lohan defended Harvey Weinstein just after reports surfaced of his numerous accounts of sexual misconduct. In the video, she also mentioned Weinstein’s wife, Georgina Chapman, with whom he agreed to a divorce settlement in January.
“I feel very bad for Harvey Weinstein right now,” Lohan said in a now-deleted Instagram video posted from, she said, Dubai. “I don’t think it’s right what’s going on. I think Georgina needs to take a stand and be there for her husband. He’s never harmed me or did anything to me. We’ve done several movies together. So, I think everyone needs to stop. I think it’s wrong. So, stand up.”
