This Article is From Aug 20, 2013

Lindsay Lohan: I was overpaid as a child star

Lindsay Lohan: I was overpaid as a child star

The actress says she wasted lot of money when she was a teenager

Highlights

  • Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is convinced that she was "making too much" money as a child star.
  • The 27-year-old actress admitted to Oprah Winfrey that her problems began after she found fame as a child, reported Contactmusic.
  • "When I moved to LA after filming Mean Girls, I was 17 or 18. I was around people so I wasn't lonely, and I didn't pay close enough attention to people being around for the wrong reasons. I was making too much. I wasted so much money; I was living at a hotel, and I had an apartment. I wasn't really being guided. I didn't think about it, and I didn't listen to my family when they told me, 'Come back to New York,'" she said.
  • When Winfrey asked her how it feels to be held up as an example of a "child star gone wrong," Lohan said, "I hate that label and that title. That's not what I ever aspired to be."
London: Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is convinced that she was "making too much" money as a child star.

The 27-year-old actress admitted to Oprah Winfrey that her problems began after she found fame as a child, reported Contactmusic.

"When I moved to LA after filming Mean Girls, I was 17 or 18. I was around people so I wasn't lonely, and I didn't pay close enough attention to people being around for the wrong reasons. I was making too much. I wasted so much money; I was living at a hotel, and I had an apartment. I wasn't really being guided. I didn't think about it, and I didn't listen to my family when they told me, 'Come back to New York,'" she said.

When Winfrey asked her how it feels to be held up as an example of a "child star gone wrong," Lohan said, "I hate that label and that title. That's not what I ever aspired to be."
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