Lindsay Lohan was "hurt and disappointed" by mean Mean Girls joke

Tina Fey's new, Reneé Rapp-led Mean Girls references a paparazzi incident involving Lohan from 2006

By Emma Keates | January 16, 2024 | 5:16pm

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Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan at the Mean Girls premiere Photo: Arturo Holmes

Lindsay Lohan has experienced a much deserved renaissance over the past few years—a more than welcome pivot from the butt-of-the-joke status she was subject to in the early 2000s. Still, as Cady and the rest of her North Shore buddies learned in Tina Fey’s original Mean Girls, sometimes it’s the people closest to you that let you down in the end. That is, unfortunately, what happened to Lindsay Lohan, who felt personally victimized by Fey’s updated version of the film.

The 2024 musical, which (spoiler alert!) features a cameo by Lohan, includes a reference to an infamous 2006 rant in which Paris Hilton’s friend Brandon Davis referred to Lohan as having a “fire crotch.” In a brief appearance in the film, Megan Thee Stallion quips that “Y2K fire crotch is back” in reference to Cady’s (Angourie Rice) talent show outfit.

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“Lindsay was very hurt and disappointed by the reference in the film,” a rep for the actor said (via People). Paramount, the film’s producing studio, did not immediately respond to The A.V. Club’s request for comment.

As of this writing, neither Lohan nor Fey have publicly commented on the matter. Earlier this week, however, Fey gushed about setting up Lohan’s cameo, in which the former Cady plays the moderator of nü Cady’s Mathlete competition. “Paramount was like, ‘Can you get any of the original ladies? And I was like, ‘I can’t fit five people in.’ I felt like if I could only get one person as a surprise, the original movie is really Lindsay’s movie,” Fey said (via Entertainment Weekly). “I was trying to think of something that you wouldn’t expect. And just to have her do that late in the movie, it also feels like it comes, I hope, at a time where fans weren’t expecting one more little surprise. It also lets her be smart, which Cady is.”

While this is an undeniably cheap shot at an actress who has worked hard to shed her past, the younger generation is clearly still enamored with her. “It is such a rare experience to really get in the head of a character and then meet someone who’s done the same thing,” Angourie Rice said of filming with Lohan (via People). “It means a lot that I get to share that with so many special performers, especially Lindsay.” While Rice’s co-stars Reneé Rapp and Christopher Briney were a little confused about a question that used the abbreviation LiLo to refer to the actress (they thought they were being asked about the animated character from Lilo & Stitch), they also both referred to her cameo as “so sick.”

It would be understandable if this wasn’t enough to quell Lohan’s hurt. At least, if nothing else, she was payed a lot for her brief appearance. According to Variety, Lohan’s cameo earned her about $500,000 for just half a day of work. That’s real queen bee behavior.