Highlights
- David Letterman’s interview with Lindsay Lohan in 2013 crossed the line by pressuring her about her rehab plans and addiction issues.
- Lohan expressed her discomfort and reminded Letterman that her healing process is not a joking matter, but he continued with the invasive questions.
- Despite the controversy, Lindsay Lohan did not take the interview personally and stated that she respects and appreciates David Letterman, as she has known him since she was a kid.
David Letterman has been slammed over his treatment of Lindsay Lohan during a 2013 interview. The chat show host pestered the then-27-year-old actress for details about her rehab plans and addiction.
The actress was appearing on his show to promote Scary Movie 5 when the chat show host decided to ask the troubled star intrusive questions about her past.
Despite Lindsay Lohan’s obvious discomfort and heart telling the host that her healing process is “not a joking matter,” Letterman pressed the topic until the star was in tears.
Although the interview occurred in 2013, almost a decade passed when the clips resurfaced on TikTok and caused controversy.
How David Letterman Crossed The Line During Lindsay Lohan Interview
The interview between David Letterman and Lindsay Lohan started well, with the pair reminiscing over her 1992 appearance. But just three minutes into the interview, the host asks the Mean Girls star, “Aren’t you supposed to be in rehab now?”
Lindsay Lohan looks upset and is caught off-guard by David Letterman’s question. She defensively told Letterman that she had been to rehab that May. At the time of filming, the Freaky Friday star had just completed a court-ordered 90-day stint in rehab after pleading no contest to violating her shoplifting probation. The judge had given Lohan the option to attend an alcohol treatment facility to avoid jail time.
“How will this time be different? What are they rehabbing first of all? What is on their list? What are they going to work on when you walk through the door?”
David Letterman presses, after asking her invasive questions about her time in rehab. Despite Lindsay Lohan’s strained smile, the audience laughed at the exchange. Lindsay Lohan called him out for asking questions not spoken about or agreed on in the pre-interview with producers.
“I think, to be honest, I’m the happiest when I’m working, and the healthiest. And this is an opportunity for me to, you know, focus on what I love in life. And I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I think it’s a blessing,” she diplomatically tells him.
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When David Letterman continued to press her about rehab and her alcohol issues, she said, “We’re here for a movie,” before adding. “Let’s stay on the positive,” before reminding him that he has known her since she was seven. Lindsay Lohan is almost in tears by the end of the interview.
David Letterman ends the interview praising The Parent Trap star for being a “good sport.” He tells her, “I mean, we never thought we’d see you again, honestly, you know, because of the jokes and stuff. But yet you have enough spine, enough sense of yourself, enough poise to come out here and talk to me.”
How Lindsay Lohan Felt About David Letterman Making Her Cry
Lindsay Lohan did not address the recent outrage at his interview, which came out amid the release Framing Britney Spears. Fans criticized the way David Letterman treated her stint in rehab and alcoholism issues, pushing the star for information and joking about her troubled past.
In the past, when the American actress was asked to share her thoughts about David Letterman’s behaviour, Lindsay Lohan made it clear she didn’t take it personally. “I love him,” she told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “I’ve known him since I was 7, when I was first on the show, so I respect and appreciate him.”
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Paris Hilton also criticized the host in her 2021 podcast for humiliating her. Letterman’s team, according to Hilton, had assured her that inappropriate questions related to Hilton’s brief stint in jail would not be discussed on the show.
“That was off-limits and he would not discuss it, and we would only be there to promote the perfume and my other business ventures,” Hilton said on the podcast about her 2007 interview. “I felt like it was a safe place because I’d been going on Letterman for so many years.”
“He’d always have fun with me and joke around, but I thought he would keep his word on this, and I was wrong.” The comedian persistently brought up her time in jail, despite agreeing to not to.
Lindsay Lohan Hated She Was A Celebrity, Not An Actress
To many, Lindsay Lohan may be better known for her controversies and partying, rather than her successful career as an actress. The actress spoke before her West End debut in 2014, a year after the David Letterman interview, admitting the uphill battled she faced to being known for her career.
The star admitted people had “perceptions” of her and looked at her as a celebrity. “That’s not what I got into this industry for. I’ve been doing this since I was 3 years old, and I’ve been on set since I was 6.”
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Despite the controversy which followed her teenage years and early 20s, Lohan doesn’t understand why people cared so much. “I don’t understand the crazy fascination with me because it kind of scares me. Even when I’m not doing anything, they create something that I’m doing. But I’m so numb to it at this point that it doesn’t affect me personally,” she explained.
In hindsight, she admits there are some things she would change about her past. “I’ve put myself in bad situations—but I don’t regret anything that’s happened because I wouldn’t be who I am today, I wouldn’t have learned the things that I know, I wouldn’t be here doing this right now,” she says.
In a 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lindsay Lohan was asked what it felt like to be used as an example of a “child star gone wrong,” Lohan admitted, “I hate that label and that title. That’s not what I ever aspired to be.”
Source: NewsFinale
