Lindsay Lohan’s Instagram Live video is causing people to do a double take.
In a since deleted post, the “Mean Girls” actress approaches a family of Syrian refugees and repeatedly offers to buy them a hotel room. However, when they ignore her, she starts to get increasingly hostile, accusing the parents of child trafficking and demanding the children come with her, only to be punched in the face by the mother.
https://twitter.com/ryanspearsz/status/1045918102775451648
The full video begins with Lohan getting out of her car and approaching a family of Syrian refugees on the street saying “Tell me your story so I can help you.”
She then repeatedly offers to buy them a hotel room. “Do you want to stay in a hotel tonight? Do you want to watch movies? It would be so cool, right?” she asks the family, focusing on the young child. Seems like a nice enough gesture — if not slightly surprising, but when they declined the offer, obviously that should have been the end of it.
The family ignored her request and picked up their belongings, walking away. She followed them as they walked down the street, claiming in a poorly delivered Arabic accent that the family is “ruining Arabic culture by doing this.”
She continues to tell the children “I won’t leave until I take you,” again in a bad fake accent. “I’m with you boys. Don’t worry. The whole world is seeing this right now.”
Lohan kept following the family as she filmed them, yelling that the children were being taken. Eventually, the woman escorting the children, presumably their mother, turned around and confronts the “Freaky Friday” actress, punching her in the face. Lohan can be heard screaming as the camera shakes out of focus as the family walked away. She turned the camera on herself, crying as she said how scared she was and “I don’t think I can ever change.”
Lohan, who posted she was in Moscow for the day, is infamous for her drug and alcohol abuse, so questions of her sobriety immediately came to mind.
wtf is lindsay lohan doing???????? pic.twitter.com/tDLxMwCwUO — king baby (@e_ame) September 29, 2018
Is it wrong to ofer to help refugees? Certainly not, but to continue to follow and harass the family, in a bad fake accent no less, is obviously where she went wrong. The whole story reeks of white saviorism.
Of course, we can’t know for sure what was going through Lohan’s head, but it seems as though she thought she could just come in, take these children as be seen as the hero. Is she trying to be a good person, or trying to stay relevant? I’d like to give her the benefit of the doubt, but the fake accent and the remarks about Pakistan (at one point in the video, she says “Don’t f*ck with Pakistan.”) I can’t help but be skeptical.
Harassment and attempted kidnapping are obviously no laughing matter, but Twiter took it upon themselves to express their frustration with the former “The Parent Trap” star.
all I could think of when lindsay lohan was making up some accent on her instagram live 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/9D64e0nFIy — Sydd💜 (@_squidnyy_) September 29, 2018
Me after watching Lindsay Lohan insult a Syrian refugee family, try to kidnap the children, yell that they’re trafficking, put hands on them,&then gets pushed by the mother that’s trying to protect her kids then Lindsay starts crying in the street… ALL on her Instagram story.. pic.twitter.com/fIV7eeELzo — Emily Luna (@Lunatoons26) September 29, 2018
*see's Lindsay Lohan on trending* oh I havent heard about her lately I hope shes good! *see's what happened* pic.twitter.com/gdD8zxOCDc — DMO (@_dmoo) September 29, 2018
Watching Lindsay Lohan’s Instagram live like pic.twitter.com/cTy0O63XpB — AA (@allisona15) September 29, 2018
https://twitter.com/LizSetsFire/status/1045859078042529794
Lindsay Lohan literally harassed and followed that family, tried to grab one of the kids, got punched in the face then had the nerve to be like "Wha!? Omg I'm so scared right now!" Girl…how do you think they- pic.twitter.com/WpVbLCwb7q — Zari (@CosmicCoochee) September 29, 2018
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