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Lindsay Lohan Apologizes for Saying #MeToo Women Look Weak

“You make it a real thing by making it a police report,” she said last week.

Lindsay Lohan apologized Sunday for claiming that women who shared their stories as part of the #MeToo movement looked “weak.” “If it happens at that moment, you discuss it at that moment... you make it a real thing by making it a police report” Lohan told The Times on Aug. 4. “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.” But Lohan backtracked Sunday in an interview with People: “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. However, I have since learned how statements like mine are seen as hurtful, which was never my intent. I’m sorry for any pain I may have caused.”