Actress Lindsay Lohan says she is
straight roughly four years following her romance with celebrity DJ
Samantha Ronson. Lohan first confirmed the romance in 2008, and
their coupling ended sometime the following year.
The 26-year-old Lohan told Piers Morgan
that her affair with Ronson was just her “looking for something
different.”
“I like boys,” Lohan told Morgan in
a Daily
Mail interview.
When Morgan pressed, asking whether the
Mean Girls star was bisexual, Lohan answered, “Not really.”
“I like being in a relationship with
a guy. But there's something just different about it with a woman.
When I was with Samantha, I didn't want to leave, because I didn't
want to be alone. It was very toxic. And her family controlled
anything she did.”
“Were you in love with her?” Morgan
asked.
“I still love her as a person.”
“But were you in love with her?”
“I think there was a point when I
was.”
“So, you're probably straight?”
Morgan suggested.
“No, I know I'm straight. I have
made out with girls before, and I had a relationship with a girl.
But I think I needed to experience that and I think I was looking for
something different.”
Trish Bendix, managing editor for
lesbian entertainment blog AfterEllen.com, criticized Lohan's
comments, saying that they undermined the gay rights movement.
“Celebrities like Lindsay are often
treated as unofficial spokespeople and when they are part of our
community, what they say about sexuality can directly affect how
anyone who knows little about LGBTs think about us,” Bendix
wrote. “Lindsay Lohan may only be speaking about her own
preferences and ideas about love and relationships, but, sadly, she's
a voice that is heard above others because she is popular tabloid
fodder. She might not be seen as the most credible source as of
late, with her personal issues of substance abuse and dependency
being made quite public, but renouncing her sexuality or discrediting
her relationship with Samantha ends up lending homophobes and the
ex-gay movement some unintended legitimacy.”