Personal life of Lindsay Lohan

Michael Lohan

Dina Lohan

Lohan's father, Michael, served jail time in a stock fraud case when Lohan was four years old, and has been arrested almost a dozen times.^[1] Lohan spoke about her turbulent childhood in 2007, the same year her parents finalized their divorce: "I feel like a second parent in the sense that I helped raise my family... I was put between my mother and father a lot."^[2][3] Despite the conflicts, Lohan spoke very fondly of her family.^[4][5] However, in 2007, 2008, and 2009 she admitted that she had cut off contact with her father, describing his behavior as unpredictable and hard to deal with.^[6][7][8][9]

After a fight with her mother, Dina, in 2012, Lohan had called her father in a frantic episode, insisting that her mother was on cocaine like "a crazy person", according to her. Her father evidently recorded the call and released it to the tabloids. The tape subsequently went viral and gained mass media attention.^[1] While filming the 2013 film, The Canyons, Lohan filmed a scene with co-star James Deen which depicted the actress being assaulted by Deen. It ended with Lohan sobbing on the ground. When later complimented on her acting in the scene she responded that, "I've got a lot of experience with that from my dad".^[10] By 2023, Lohan was on good terms with both of her parents as the family gathered in July, which reportedly marked the first time they were all together in at least seven years.^[11]

Lohan said that her first problems arose when she moved to California by herself at 15. In her interview with Oprah Winfrey in 2013, Lohan spoke of her lack of financial guidance and how her early legal problems left her unfazed as she was so deep into her tendencies as an addict.^[12] In the same interview, Lohan admitted it took a period of time before she could admit to herself that she had a problem.

Upon moving to Los Angeles, Lohan briefly lived with fellow Disney star Raven-Symoné, though Symoné said Lohan had been at the apartment very little, claiming she had only been there three times.^[13][14] Following Mean Girls, Lohan spent several years living out of hotels in Los Angeles, of which two years were spent at the Chateau Marmont. In late 2007, after settling down in a more permanent residence, she explained that she "didn't want to be alone" but that "it wasn't a way of life ... not very consistent."^[15][16][17] She had a series of car accidents that were widely reported, in August 2004, October 2005 and November 2006, when she suffered minor injuries because a paparazzi who were following her for a photograph hit her car.^[18][19][20] During her time working in Los Angeles, Lohan had suffered from bulimia nervosa.^[21][22][23]

Lohan has mentioned her interest in writing an autobiography several times, stating in 2018 that she planned to release one in the near-future.^[24]

Lohan is fluent in French and able to understand Russian.^[25] She says she is studying Italian, Arabic, and Turkish.^[26]

Lohan was raised Catholic.^[25] In April 2016, Lohan was studying Islam and considered converting.^[27][28] Lohan was spotted publicly with a headscarf and holding a Quran, resulting in media coverage questioning her faith, although Lohan's family has denied that she has changed religions.^[29] Following an incident in an airport in February 2017 when Lohan was asked to take off her headscarf while going through security, she publicly claimed to have been "racially profiled".^[30] Moreover, she wrote "Salam Aleikum", a religious salutation among Muslims, in her Instagram biography.^[31]

In January 2019, Lohan said in an interview that she meditates three times a day.^[32]

Lohan grew up on Long Island and moved to Los Angeles on her own at age 15. She briefly returned to New York in 2014 after checking out of rehab, and also lived in London between 2014 and 2016, after she signed on to do a stage play in the West End, Speed-the-Plow, and to escape the intense public attention she had been receiving while in the United States.^[33] She mentioned at the time: "I can go for a run here [London] on my own. … I do every morning, early, and I think how my friends in New York would still be up partying at that time. I needed to grow up, and London is a better place for me to do that than anywhere else", then she added, "I haven't heard myself mentioned on TV since I have been here. That has been really weird for me, and great".^[34] Since 2016, she has resided in Dubai. Lohan explained her decision by saying: "There's a certain calmness that I find there... There's no paparazzi, no cameras. That's a big deal for me."^[35]

In October 2016 and January 2017, Lohan went to Turkey to visit the Syrian refugee camps, and to meet the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and a Syrian refugee girl, Bana al-Abed.^[36][37]

In October 2017, Lohan received scrutiny for defending Harvey Weinstein, with whom she worked on several films, on Instagram and saying that his wife Georgina Chapman should stay with him.^[38] Weinstein had been accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape. Lohan later clarified stating, "I am saddened to hear about the allegations against my former colleague Harvey Weinstein. As someone who has lived their life in the public eye, I feel that allegations should always be made to the authorities and not played out in the media."^[39]

In September 2018, Lohan garnered controversy and scrutiny after she livestreamed herself attempting to lead away a homeless woman's children on Instagram Live after they refused her help. In the video, she accuses the woman of child trafficking and dubs the family "Syrian refugee[s]" although no further clarification was provided on the incident.^[40]

During the 2008 US presidential campaign, Lohan offered her services to Barack Obama's Democratic election effort, but was declined.^[41] In a blog post, Lohan criticized the media and then Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for not focusing on policy, and denounced Palin's positions on homosexuality, birth control and abortion.^[42][43] Lohan had previously expressed an interest in going to Iraq, during the Iraq War in 2006, on a USO tour with Hillary Clinton.^[44] In the 2012 presidential election, Lohan initially supported Republican candidate Mitt Romney, something that prompted ABC News to call her a "political turncoat".^[45][46] Less than two weeks later, she tweeted words supportive of Obama.^[47]

Following her criticism of several of the pressing matters involving Brexit, Lohan had gained support for her political views due to her unexpected attentiveness and passionate beliefs about the matter.^{[48][49][50][51]}

Lohan began dating actor Wilmer Valderrama in 2004. She also guest-starred in an episode of That '70s Show, where Valderrama was a regular. After their break up, Lohan wrote her song, "Over", about the experience. She dated Hard Rock Cafe heir Harry Morton in 2006. Lohan then started a relationship with DJ Samantha Ronson in 2008.^[52][53] She co-hosted club events with Ronson and accompanied her when she was DJing.^[54][55] In April 2009, following her break up with Ronson, Lohan appeared in a dating video spoof on the comedy website Funny or Die.^[56] It was viewed 2.7 million times in the first week and received favorable comments from the media.^[57][58] In 2016, it was revealed Lohan was engaged to London-based Russian business heir Egor Tarabasov after they had started dating in the previous year.^[59][60] The engagement was called off shortly after they were photographed in a physical altercation on a beach in Mykonos, and a video surfaced of Lohan accusing him of abuse in their London apartment in July 2016.^[61]

In 2021, Lohan announced her engagement to financier Bader Shammas after three years of dating,^[62] and they were wed in 2022.^[63][64] Bader Shammas is a Kuwaiti citizen and a member of the Shammas family, one of the twelve Kuwaiti Christian families.^[65] On July 2, 2022, a representative confirmed Lohan and Shammas were married after she called him her "husband" on her Instagram birthday post.^[66] In 2023 she gave birth to their son;^[67][68] Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry are his godparents.^[69]

Since the 2000s, Lohan has had a series of love-hate friendships with a few celebrities, dubbed by the media as her "frenemies". The most notable example being her relationship with socialite and reality television personality Paris Hilton. The duo dissed one another in the media but would eventually make amends until 2013, when Hilton's younger brother Barron accused Lohan of having club owner Ray LeMoine beat him up during the Art Basel festival in Miami, with Hilton quickly responding in his defense on social media. LeMoine would later clarify and state Lohan had been unconnected to the episode, and no charges were ever filed against him. Upon being asked about the incident on the 2014 docuseries Lindsay, Lohan distanced herself from the situation saying she "did not have any part in it."^[70][71] As of 2022, the two had reconciled and Hilton dismissed the feud as "very immature".^[72] Early in her teenage career, Lohan had a high-profile feud with fellow Disney star Hilary Duff, after both seemingly dated Aaron Carter around the same time. They were often brought up in each other's interviews, and Lohan parodied the feud while hosting a 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live. By early 2007, the conflict was over as the two were hanging out together and Lohan supported Duff's album release.^[73][74]

In 2013, her Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen co-star Megan Fox mentioned Lohan when she commented on Marilyn Monroe, saying: "She [Monroe] wasn't powerful at the time. She was sort of like Lindsay. She was an actress who wasn't reliable, who almost wasn't insurable... She had all the potential in the world, and it was squandered".^[75] Fox later explained her comments: "I attempted to draw parallels between Lindsay and Marilyn in order to illustrate my point that while Marilyn may be an icon now, sadly she was not respected and taken seriously while she was still living", then she added, "I intended for this to be a factual comparison of two women with similar experiences in Hollywood. Unfortunately it turned into me offering up what is really much more of an uneducated opinion. It was most definitely not my intention to criticize or degrade Lindsay."^[76]

Speaking about her sexual orientation, Lohan said that she was not a lesbian. When asked if she was bisexual in 2008, she responded "Maybe. Yeah," adding, "I don't want to classify myself."^[52] However, in a 2013 interview, she said, "I know I'm straight. I have made out with girls before, and I had a relationship with a girl. But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for something different."^[77]