Lindsay Lohan claims she was ‘racially profiled’ in NYC for her head scarf

Celebrities at the ITV studios

Lindsay Lohan was interviewed on Good Morning Britain this morning. I don’t know why? I mean, to describe her as a “has-been” seems overly generous at this point. She was once genuinely famous, then she was genuinely infamous for her criminal behavior, and nowadays… who even knows? She sort of lives in London. She goes on vacation a lot. She has shady friends and shady business associates. She makes mysterious trips to Russia and Turkey and she claims she wants to help refugees. I can’t even say “at least she seems to have cleaned up her act” because I’m absolutely positive that she’s still partying like the good old days.

Anyway, so she went on Good Morning Britain for some unknown reason. She looked like she was coming off a bad bender, and she talked about how she is probably-maybe converting to Islam.

Interestingly enough, Lindsay claims that she was “racially profiled” when she recently returned to New York. This is what she said:

“When I was flying to New York recently I was wearing a headscarf and I got stopped at the airport and was racially profiled for the first time in my life. [The agent] opened my passport and saw Lindsay Lohan and started apologizing but said, ‘Take off your headscarf.’ I mean, it’s OK. But what scared me was that moment, how would another woman who doesn’t feel comfortable taking off her headscarf feel? That was really interesting to me. I was kind of in shock. It was strange… I’m from New York, born and raised. I was a little intimidated.”

[From Us Weekly]

One, it’s not racial profiling. It’s Muslim-profiling, perhaps, if this incident even really happened. But she’s a white woman from Long Island. They weren’t profiling her based on her skin color, they were profiling her based on her head scarf. Two, Muslim women who wear hijabs won’t just “take them off” to go through Customs. If Lindsay says that she’s “studying” the Koran and that she’s working on converting, sure, I guess I’ll take that at face value. But it feels more like she just wore a scarf to provoke attention, because she was wandering around New York days earlier without a scarf.

Lindsay Lohan talks refugees with President of Turkey and First Lady

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  1. Arock says:

    If that did happen, my money would be on security recognizing her and assuming there’s crack hidden up in there or the drugs dogs perked up as she came around the corner.

  2. lower-case deb says:

    are you sure it’s not for past criminal records and pending criminal charges and/or contraband?

  3. Merry says:

    What the hell England, you gave Peirs Morgan a show?!

    • MC2 says:

      This!!! I couldn’t believe it- “Good Morning Britain” with that guy?! Watching this interview made me skin crawl every time he spoke. He really is a vile creature & I can’t believe people wake up to watch this man at the start of the day- he is the turd in a tea party.

  4. minx says:

    I say this every time I see her, but she’s so young to look so old.

    • Matomeda says:

      +1 what’s different? Her mouth/lips I think. But really it’s everything.

    • Nameless says:

      I’m wondering if filler use stretches your skin and ages the elasticity prematurely.

    • TwistBarbie says:

      Jesus, look at her legs in that full length pic 🙁
      Those are the legs of an 80 year old woman
      I don’t even have a reasonable explanation as to what could age legs like that…it doesn’t look like strictly sun-damage.

  5. hobbi says:

    So they are profiling crackheads now?

  6. WingKingdom says:

    Her poor face. It looks so painful.

    • Kitten says:

      Yeah what’s going on there? Just a lot of fillers…?

    • MC2 says:

      She legit didn’t look like she felt well…and she looked puffy. Fillers, botox & puff maybe? When I flew & mixed that with drinking a lot I was bloated for days- I looked & felt like hell. Can’t imagine if I also had some sort of filler/botox to mix in there. It could be for lots of reasons but she doesn’t look like she is on her A-game here.

    • Sarah says:

      I can’t stop staring at her upper lip. It doesn’t move!

  7. Sushiroll says:

    Bitch please. If this happened to pretty much anybody else it would deserve to be taken seriously. But her, lol no. The headscarf, the Muslim posturing, it’s yet another giant neon sign that says “Look at me, LOOK AT MEeeeeee! I’m desperate here!!!!!”

    Expect her to cycle through several borrowed identities until she finally dissolves into a pile of sad crack and cigarette ashes.

    • LadyT says:

      That’s the way I see it too. Same old Lindsay.

    • Annike says:

      Honestly, I watched the video (I have no idea why) and she is SO annoying. The Muslim posturing is actually pathetic and kind of offensive. People desperate for attention used to amuse/annoy me, now they downright disgust me and there are SO MANY of them!

  8. Izzy says:

    That poor kid in the last picture looks like she’s trying to save herself from this cracked-out mess.

  9. Talie says:

    Is this press tour being sponsored by some random despot? You never know with her…seeing Whoopi Goldberg be way to conciliatory toward her was kind of gross. Her activism is bought and paid for.

  10. Disco Dancer says:

    As a Muslim I can tell you, I am sick and tired of having non Muslims convert to Islam and then go on to do terrible things all in the name of Islam. If Lindsay wants to reform herself, by all means do it but I don’t need this druggie narcissist using my religion to do so and give my religion a bad name. Islam already has a bad reputation now as it is.

    • Ever bloom says:

      With all due respect to you, doesn’t Islam already differentiate between men (umah/infidel).

    • MC2 says:

      I just want to say sorry. If Lilo was trying to become the face of something in my world, I would be pissed. This will be seen with an eye roll. And if I had to bet then my money would be on the idea that she is grooming herself for marriage with a man who is Muslim.

    • HappyMom says:

      She was “converting to Judaism” too back in the day when she was with Sam Ronson. We didn’t want her either. I’m sorry she’s besmirching your faith. Pretty sure she does everything for attention and this won’t really stick either.

  11. greenmonster says:

    My guess is the guard said “Take off the head scarf! Aren’t muslims suffering enough without you trying to throw yourself into this conversation?”

  12. Kiki says:

    She is lying.

  13. Sam the Pink says:

    Isn’t it possible that she was just randomly selected for a security screening? That does happen. But of course, she thinks “they’re after ME.”

    Also – she says she had it on out of “respect” to the Muslim women she was with. I have never heard of such a thing. I have Muslim female friends that I have gone out with and never, ever have any of them suggested I should cover my head in their presence – mostly because they get that I am not Muslim. My bare head does not offend them in the least. So that just sounds….weird to me. I get it inside a mosque (and I have done that) but this was an airport.

    • swak says:

      If (and I’m saying if) that is her reason, then why did she not wear one in the last photograph? She wants attention.

    • Suki says:

      She is such a con artist. if you listen to her, she doesn’t actually say that anything happened. It sounds to me like she was standing at the counter where they check her passport and the rest happened in her head. She doesn’t mention any of the types of things that would happen if you ‘got stopped’ ie extra baggage checks, pulled into a separate room etc.

      Also, I was just in Turkey last year. There are plenty of women who don’t wear headscarves there. I brought one just in case, and the only time i needed it was when i went to see some of the historic mosques. Otherwise, i would say the majority of women there don’t wear them.

    • Annike says:

      Yeah no, none of my Muslim friends suggest I wear a headscarf either. Funny how she says that she was in Turkey and therefore she was wearing the scarf out of respect. There are many women in Turkey who don’t wear a scarf and you’d definitely not be expected to as a visitor, unless you went to a mosque or something.

  14. Bess says:

    I don’t believe she was racially profiled and I also don’t believe Lohan’s converting to Islam. This is another attempt to get attention.

    • LadyT says:

      I’m thinking it might be an effort to broaden her marriage prospects and get her some attention, too.

  15. jerkface says:

    She looks like cigarettes smell.

  16. Chloeee says:

    First of all she mysteriously lost her accent 40 seconds in. She lost me talking about Trump. Fuck Piers Morgan too, that guy succckkkssss. Easy for two white people to say that everyone’s being dramatic. People are legitimately scared.

  17. Arpeggi says:

    Seriously, she probably wasn’t “just” wearing a headscarf; it’s LiLo after all and I can easily picture her as being the type of person that walks to the security check point with sunglasses, a bunch of jewels still on her, liquid bottles still in her purse and looking totally agitated. So of course an agent will take her aside and check for IDs. When he saw who it was, he just let her go hoping she would be leaving the UK not to come back again

  18. lol says:

    I know she wants attention, but she should talk about it.

  19. Mich says:

    I spend a lot of time on long haul flights and often wear punjabis because they are so comfortable. I’m very Scottish/Irish looking but have been pulled out of lines interrogated/had my bags thoroughly searched at Heathrow, JFK and more. It only happens when I’m wearing punjabis. Coming into RDU from London (on a trip that originated in South Africa), passport control didn’t even look at my face. He took one look at what I was wearing and sent me over to be interrogated. They grilled me for almost an hour about who I was, what work I do, who was picking me up, where I was staying, how long I planned to stay, etc. I’m a US citizen. My mom was picking me up. What do you mean “how long am I staying”?

    They didn’t stop until I made it clear that I thought it was pretty stupid to be profiling me based on the fact that I wear comfortable clothes when flying long distances.

    • lol says:

      That’s why I think she should talk about these things.

      • LadyT says:

        It’s a very real thing. The morning after the election a friend was pumping gas, wearing a decorative headscarf, and someone said “They’ll be coming for you” to her. She was horrified.
        I don’t think Lindsay is the one to do the talking though. She’s just too easy to not take seriously.

    • tmot says:

      I recently went out to the grocery store in a hoodie and jeggings (sue me, they’re comfy) and I had dirty hair so I covered it with a scarf – not the Muslim style wrap, only covering my hair. I’ve seen J-Lo out like that a lot so I thought nothing of it.

      At the supermarket, I got SO many weird looks and downright stink-eye that I have no trouble at all believing that it is even worse at airports, no matter who you are.

      It IS Muslim profiling. And we SHOULD be talking about it.

      I try to be extra nice to ladies I see in hijab, because I know they are getting uncoolness from so many other people. Which is terrible and wrong. UnAmerican!

  20. Fran says:

    I may be in the minority but I watched the whole interview and thought she came accross fairly well! Especially given the cracked out madness of the last ten years. I thought her answer on Islam was fairly well considered. She just sort of said it was something she was learning about. I’ve seen her a lot worse over the years.

  21. Tough Cookie says:

    Oh Kaiser I LOVE you!! This is a belated Valentine’s Day gift!! {{{{CRACKENTINE}}}}} I am always thrilled with a post and pics of her…but this….a clip of Cracken and Piers Morgan….dear God I almost fainted. I actually feel now like I’m in need of a shower.
    Who the HELL would let her take over their social media for a day?

  22. Tw says:

    Puh lease cracken. It’s typical to be asked to remove a hat or scarf when going trough security. She’s an orange/white lady wearing a scarf on her head- they’re going to ask her to remove it. Standard procedure. She is a delusional attention-seeking disgrace.

    • LadyT says:

      Standard operating procedure. I’m even requested nearly ever time to take down my hair so that I can be cleared to move on. (I have long hair that I wear up.) Surprised me at first but no problem.

  23. MissMerry says:

    “Muslim women who wear hijabs won’t just “take them off” to go through Customs.”

    What does that mean?

    They would say ‘no, you can take me somewhere private and I will do so’ or ‘no, i won’t no matter what, do what you have to do’

    I’m curious, I’m not schooled on the etiquette/rules/beliefs on this topic.

    • tmot says:

      They would go to a private room with a female agent. Not be expected to whip it off in public. Agents surely all know that is the protocol.

  24. Linabear says:

    If she’s so concerned about the treatment of Muslims in America then she shouldn’t supoort Trump.

  25. vespernite says:

    So Lindsey was on the VIEW on Monday. It’s an American talk show for those of you from over seas. And on the show Whoopi Goldberg was kissing Lindsey’s ass the whole time. It was pathetic really that Whoopi felt she needed to vouch for the presence of her guest, but I digress. Lindsey was on there to promote her work as an activist for the rights of Muslim refugee children. And the rampant sex trafficking of refugee children. She claimed to be reformed and to have found her calling in life. Apparently she is writing/directing a documentary on the subject of child refugees. on one had I found her to be sort of genuine but on the other hand it’s Lindsey so…

  26. Lasagnawasgreat says:

    Lie!