Actress Lindsay Lohan claimed she was “racially profiled” at London Heathrow Airport recently while going through a security checkpoint wearing a headscarf.

In an appearance on “Good Morning Britain” on Tuesday, Lohan told hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid that she was stopped in a Heathrow security line while traveling from Turkey to the United States.

“When I was flying to New York recently, I was wearing a headscarf and I got stopped at the airport and racially profiled for the first time in my life,” Lohan said on the show. “She opened my passport and saw ‘Lindsay Lohan’ and started immediately apologizing, but then said, ‘Please, but take off your headscarf.’ ”

A video clip of Lohan’s appearance uploaded by “Good Morning Britain” appeared to have edited out the mention of her being “racially profiled.”

However, the Sun, a British tabloid, published a video clip that showed Lohan saying she was racially profiled, and many other outlets, including the Associated Press, reported the quote. The show itself tweeted the quote as well.

Lohan, the star of “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls,” told Morgan and Reid that she complied with the request to remove her headscarf but that the encounter was “jarring.”

“And I did. I mean, it’s OK,” Lohan said. “But what scared me was, in that moment, how would another woman who doesn’t feel comfortable taking off her headscarf feel?”

Lohan said she was wearing a headscarf out of “respect” because she was returning from Turkey, where she had met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Lohan in recent months has been speaking out on behalf of Syrian refugees.


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