Lindsey Lohan claims she was profiled in an airport while wearing a headscarf
Lindsay Lohan is turning heads again, but this time it’s for a reason a lot more serious than her accent.
While visiting Good Morning Britain, hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid asked the actress a series of questions about Islam, Trump's presidency and Lohan's experience reading the Quran. But what was particularly interesting was Lohan's claims of being singled out at an airport because she was wearing a headscarf.
She explained that while flying into New York recently, she got stopped because of her headscarf and was double-checked by security. Lohan doesn't always wear one, but said she happened to don one out of "personal respect" while leaving Turkey, where she had met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The actress explained that she eventually took off the scarf after airport personnel asked her to, but the experience was jarring.
"What scared me was, in that moment, how would another woman who does not feel comfortable enough taking off her headscarf, feel? That was really interesting to me," Lohan said. "I was a little intimidated."
Whether or not she asked to remove the scarf, Lohan would not have been required to comply according to the British government's airport rights. "If you’re wearing headgear for religious or cultural reasons, you can ask for it to be checked using a hand-held scanner so you don’t have to remove it," a government website states.
Something to keep in mind next time, Lohan.
