Do we like Lindsay Lohan?
Our score: 7 out of 10. A decent run lately and a nothing-nasty record on LGBTQ+ people, held back by a clumsy 2018 #MeToo remark and a rocky legal past.
Lohan's story is the classic child-star arc, then the long fall, then a rebuild. By 2010 she was in front of a Beverly Hills judge who revoked her probation and handed down a 90-day jail sentence, after she had earlier pleaded guilty and no contest to drink-driving and reckless driving charges from 2007. The judge reportedly called her tearful apology insincere, which says plenty about how far her credibility had slid.
The legal drama was the loudest thing about her for years, and the court record is the main stain. The judge cited a history of misstatements about her legal troubles, and Lohan told the court “I did the best I could.” That was 2010, though, and nothing comparable turned up in the years since.
The harm check is where it gets interesting. In 2018 she told The Times that women speaking out about abuse made themselves look weak, then apologised within days, saying she would like to “unreservedly apologise for any hurt and distress caused.” She had also posted an Instagram video defending Harvey Weinstein in 2017, which she later deleted. It was an ugly look, but it's a moment, not a campaign, and the apology was followed by silence on the topic rather than more of the same.
On politics, in 2017 she said of Donald Trump, “If you can't beat him, join him,” while also urging him to help Syrian refugees. Where you land on that depends on whether you read it as naive pragmatism or as going soft on a leader whose policies hit migrants. Nothing she said in the sources we read attacks LGBTQ+ people or trans people. In 2021 she recorded a Cameo for a fan who wanted to come out, telling her “I think that you should do it yourself.”
The money side has one blemish. In 2023 she settled with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over paid crypto promotions she hadn't disclosed, returning her $10,000 fee and paying a $30,000 fine. She neither admitted nor denied the findings, and her publicist said she was unaware of the disclosure rule.
The recent chapter is the good bit. She spent years based in Dubai, and in March 2026 left for New York when strikes hit the region, telling Vogue Arabia she was glad she had followed her gut. She's now an executive producer and star of Hulu's Count My Lies alongside Shailene Woodley and Kit Harington, her first lead in a TV series. Nothing in that project's cast or creative team set off alarm bells.