Lindsay Lohan is back.

At the height of her fame in the aughts, there wasn’t a day that the former child star wasn’t making headlines. But after years out of the spotlight, and jetting as far away from Hollywood as she possibly could, Lohan, 34, will make her return to acting next year in a Netflix holiday rom-com — one of the streamer’s most popular tentpoles.

But observers are wondering: Why now? Currently living in Dubai with her long-time banker boyfriend, Lohan has spent the past few years concentrating on her lifestyle business, with her eponymous clubs in Greece and a new passion for “NFTs” — non-fungible tokens — where pieces of art are being sold digitally for millions of dollars. Why would she trade her peaceful, comfortable existence for a highly visible business that was so cruel to her?

It could be that today’s world is kinder to its young stars. Famous women who were treated abysmally by the press 20 years ago — Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Monica Lewinsky among them — are being seen in a new, more sympathetic light as people have begun to grasp the difficulty of their situations. 

“She was always being used by people, treated like meat by the paparazzi,” an old friend of Lohan’s who has known her since her early teens told The Post. “She was followed, and friends sold her out left and right. It was hard to watch — and she had no real guidance.”

“We all contributed to what happened and we didn’t stop it. We provided her with so much access to things that I don’t think a teenager should have, access to clubs, for instance. She was 17 or 18, and these were places she had no business being at that age.” Then, in May, a shocking tweet from Chrissy Teigen, who’s been criticized for her past online bullying behavior, was suddenly unearthed. In a since-deleted Twitter post from January 2011, Teigen, acting like a real-life “Mean Girl,” wrote, “Lindsay adds a few more slits to her wrists when she sees emma stone.” Teigen was making light of the actress’ admission that she’d cut herself in the past. 

Lohan has so far not commented on Teigen’s bullying, but mom Dina told The Post on Friday that the 2011 post upset everyone in the family. “When someone says hurtful words, they’re not just hurting that person, they’re hurting their siblings, their mother, their grandma,” Dina said. “They’re inflicting so much pain.”

Lohan started modeling as a toddler, and at 11 years old she filmed Nancy Meyers’ remake of “The Parent Trap” in 1998, deftly playing twins — one British, one American — opposite Dennis Quaid and the late Natasha Richardson. Her acting prowess was instantly obvious.

Her father, Michael Lohan, reminisced about taking his young daughter to her final audition for the movie. “When Lindsay was growing up, Dina would take her for her modeling, and when she was 8, she got [the soap opera] ‘Another World,’” he told The Post. “When I brought her to her audition for ‘The Parent Trap,’ it was the first time I ever saw her act.

“I was standing behind the camera with Nancy and her [then] husband Charles and it was the part where Lindsay was in bed with Natasha and I just started bawling. I couldn’t believe how talented she was. It was unbelievable.”

From there, Lohan’s acting career took off. In 2003, she starred in “Freaky Friday” with Jamie Lee Curtis, and then snagged her most famous role just a year later, as Cady Heron in Tina Fey’s now-classic teen comedy “Mean Girls.”

But her meteoric rise took its toll on her personal life.

Lohan’s old friend was around as her fame came crashing down on her like a sledgehammer at 17. “Lindsay blew up right after ‘Freaky Friday’ and I watched her rise and fall,” the friend said. “She couldn’t enjoy a good night out without it being on the cover of Us Weekly or in Page Six, she couldn’t go on a date — and that’s a really hard life to live.” 

The situation further unraveled. In 2007, Lohan was twice convicted of drunk driving, once for drug use, made three trips to rehab and served an 84-minute jail stay. She appeared in court more than 20 times amid her substance abuse struggles from 2007 to 2012.

Dina said: “Back then, there were a group of girls who were targeted by the media, when the tabloids became weekly, they couldn’t go anywhere … being watched 24/7 can really destroy someone’s life. And now we’re looking back on everything with fresh eyes to see how badly treated these girls were.”

Michael Lohan pointed out that other stars have been treated far more kindly than his daughter despite making bigger mistakes.

Michael — who had his own publicized legal woes — told The Post: “I’m really proud of Lindsay in all aspects of her personal and professional life. With the launch of her next project(s), I truly hope the industry sees that she’s on top of her game once again and still one of the most talented actresses in the entertainment business.

“They’ve been so supportive and forgiving of so many others who have had tougher falls than her, and I do hope they finally do the same for my amazingly gifted and talented daughter.”

It was after years of being hounded by paparazzi and battling addiction that Lohan practically withdrew from acting in the early 2010s and moved abroad, splitting her time between the UAE and Europe. In Dubai, she also runs her own jewelry line, Lily Baker Jewels.

To those who know Lohan, she really had no choice, they say. “At one time, she was unbondable — she could not get insurance to work,” said one industry expert. “And maybe that had some stigma among Hollywood.”

“I believe things happen for a reason,” Lohan later said of her struggles. “I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don’t regret them at all, because I’ve learned from them.”

Lohan has largely refrained from acting in recent years — although critics said she was the only good thing about Paul Schrader’s widely panned 2013 movie, “The Canyons.” She appeared in a West End production of David Mamet’s play “Speed-the-Plow” in 2014; had a recurring role on the British TV comedy “Sick Note” in 2018; starred in the MTV reality show “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” in 2019; and later that year, appeared as a judge on the Australian version of “The Masked Singer.”

The actress was primed to perform once more. On CNN’s New Year’s Eve special in 2019, just weeks before the pandemic sent the globe into lockdown, Lohan told hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen that she wanted to “come back to America and start filming again,” and “[take] back the life that I worked so hard for, and sharing it with my family and you guys.”

She will film her Netflix project, which is described as being in the same vein as Goldie Hawn’s 1987 comedy “Overboard,” in November. It will be ready for peak 2022 holiday viewing.

Lohan’s been cast as a “newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress” who gets amnesia after a skiing accident in the yet-untitled project, where she “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.”

The actress retains a great sense of humor about her life. Just days ago on Instagram, she posted a photo of herself in a tank top, writing: “On Fridays, we wear white,” in clear reference to the “Mean Girls” line: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink.” One month ago, she also paid tribute to her former on-screen mom Richardson, who died at age 45 in 2009 following a tragic skiing accident on her birthday, writing: “Happy Birthday angel.”

“She’s in such a good place in her life, she’s clear and focused,” said a source.

Dina said, “Lindsay’s now 34, she’s grown up, but everyone is looking to the future. She said, ‘Mommy, I’m ready to do movies again, I want to do what I love and what makes me happy.’” She also said Lohan is keen to try her hand at directing.

Lohan’s old friend added: “Yes, she made a s–t ton of mistakes, but she was shoved — not put — into the lion’s den.

“And I am rooting for her comeback. She shouldn’t be judged for who she was when she was a teenager. Would any of us want to be judged on our teenage years and early 20s?”

Lindsay Lohan, who has largely foregone acting in recent years, will soon star in a yet-to-be-titled Netflix holiday rom-com. The streamer has made a robust business out of Christmas fare, and its original movies such as “Jingle Jangle,” “A Christmas Prince,” “The Christmas Chronicles” and “The Princess Switch” (inspired by Lohan’s “The Parent Trap”) have become instant (and repeatable) holiday classics.

In this new movie, Lohan will play a “newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress” (according to the logline), who gets amnesia after a skiing accident and “finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas.” The rest of the cast has not yet been announced.

Lohan skyrocketed to fame as an 11-year-old actor, starring in a 1998 reboot of “The Parent Trap.” She followed that with a remake of “Freaky Friday” and “Mean Girls;” both roles cemented her status as an A-list star. After years of being hounded by paparazzi and the tabloids because of personal issues — ones that made her uninsurable for a time because of her chronic absences  — Lohan withdrew from acting by degrees, starting in the early 2010s. She eventually moved abroad, living in both Europe and Dubai.

She’s launched projects sporadically since, such as being the only good thing in Paul Schrader’s 2013 movie, “The Canyons;” appearing in a West End production of “Speed-the-Plow” in 2014; recurring on the British TV comedy “Sick Note” in 2018; starring in the MTV reality show “Lindsay Lohan’s Beach Club” in 2019; and later that year, appearing as a judge on the Australian version of “The Masked Singer.”

On CNN’s New Year’s Eve special in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic would press pause on the world, Lohan told hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen that she wanted to “come back to America and start filming again,” and “taking back the life that I worked so hard for, and sharing it with my family and you guys.”

The Netflix movie starts production in November, so it won’t be for 2021 holiday viewing — audiences will receive this Yuletide present at a time to be announced later.

Janeen Damian (Hallmark Channel’s “A Christmas Waltz”) will direct, and it was written by Damian, Michael Damian, Jeff Bonnett and Ron Oliver. Its producers are MPCA’s Brad Krevoy and Riviera Films’ Michael Damian. MPCA is behind such Netflix Christmas movies as the “A Christmas Prince” franchise, “Operation Christmas Drop” and the forthcoming “A Castle for Christmas.” (And fun fact: Michael Damian was a longtime star of the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” and in 1989, had a No. 1 single: “Rock On,” from the “Dream a Little Dream” soundtrack.”)

Executive producers for Lohan’s Netflix movie are Amanda Phillips and Eric Jarboe.

Lohan is represented by APA.

No joke! Lindsay Lohan is dying to return to the spotlight, and she’s set her sights on a hosting gig at Saturday Night Live to kickstart her comeback, an insider tells OK!

After a long spell of living in far-flung locations like Greece and Dubai, Lohan, 34, “wants to make movies and TV shows in the States again,” the insider says. 

The former child star, whose career peaked with 2004’s Mean Girls before it got derailed by drug and alcohol abuse, hosted the late-night sketch show multiple times during her Hollywood heyday. (The last was in 2012 when she gamely poked fun at her infamous bad girl past.)  “The people at the top of SNL have always left their doors open for Lohan. It would be the perfect place to kick things off if someone there gets behind her again, the way [Mean Girls writer and costar] Tina Fey did,” the insider explains. “But there’s a lot of nervousness on Lindsay’s part. Hosting SNL could be the magic bullet — as long as she doesn’t mess it up and fall flat on her face!”

While Lohan may be ambitious, she doesn’t the best track record when it comes to projects she’s undertaken. Last year, it was reported that she was being sued by HarperCollins for a book that she promised to write. 

The publishing company allegedly paid her $365,000 in advance in 2014, but when the time came to deliver on the project, Lohan didn’t have anything to show. “The Defendants failed to deliver a complete manuscript for the Work to the Plaintiff by the contractually agreed upon deadline and to this day they have failed to deliver a complete manuscript,” the lawsuit filed in the New York Supreme Court stated. 

The original agreement, signed in 2014, stated that Lohan will hand over a manuscript in 2015, but a year later, no book had been produced, so both companies decided to push the release date back to 2017. That advance has yet to be paid back to the publisher, according to the lawsuit, and now the “Rumors” singer could be on the hook for a little over $1 million. 

It’s a tale as old as time: Lucky girl meets boy. Girl kisses boy. Boy accidentally steals girl’s luck.

So, that’s not exactly a story as classic as, say Beauty and the Beast, but it does date back all the way to 2006 when Just My Luck was released. Fresh off of her breakout role in Mean Girls, an 18-year-old Lindsay Lohan starred as the most fortunate woman alive who loses her luck when she falls for Chris Pine at a masquerade ball. You know, as one does.

The rom-com-gone-wrong was directed by Donald Petrie, who was coming off of a hot streak with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Miss Congeniality. Paired with two of Hollywood’s hottest young stars, Just My Luck seemed destined for box office success. Unfortunately, someone must’ve walked under a ladder on the set because the movie failed to charm critics or theater-goers and had more drama than comedy going on behind the scenes. So grab your four-leaf clover and rub your lucky rabbit foot as we reveal some secrets about Just My Luck in honor of its 15th anniversary…

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The release of the documentary Framing Britney Spears, which paid special attention to the capricious media treatment she received throughout her career, has led many to reflect on the sexism some of her contemporaries endured around that time.

In particular, a 2013 interview between David Letterman and Lindsay Lohan has drawn criticism from users on TikTok and Twitter, who are now calling out the talk show host for probing into the actress’s personal life.

“Now, aren’t you supposed to be in rehab?” the former Late Show host asked Lohan, who appeared on the show to promote an upcoming film.

After revealing the date she was set to enter rehab, the host followed up with a rapid slew of questions about her recovery, including how many times she’s been to rehab and how this time will be different.

“What are they rehab-ing? What is on their list? What are they going to work on when you walk through the door?” Letterman continued, to laughter from the audience.

Lohan, visibly uncomfortable, said that the topic of rehab was not broached in the pre-interview, but allowed that rehab would be an “opportunity to focus on what I love in life.”

But Letterman continued to prod, asking if she had “addiction problems” and if she was going to rehab for alcohol use.

“You can’t make a joke of it, that’s so mean,” the actress responded.

“This is vile on so many levels. The misogyny. The blindsiding. The stigma of addiction & rehab,” producer Frank Costa commented. “The hypocrisy of wanting people to recover, but then judging how they choose do so. I hope Lindsay Lohan knows how loved she is. The world has treated her and many others so unfairly.”

At the end of the segment, which another Twitter user highlighted in a clip, Letterman praised Lohan for being able to go on the show and sit through his comments. Letterman’s reps did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

Another commenter said that Letterman’s 2004 interview with Janet Jackson “gives off the same vibes.” In the video, the host repeatedly pressed her on her Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction, despite her apparent discomfort. The resurfaced Letterman interviews come in stark contrast to another late-night host’s monologue that’s been making the social media rounds since the release of Framing Britney Spears. Social media users have revisited a Late Late Show clip from 2007, wherein former host Craig Ferguson explained why he wouldn’t be making light of Spears’ personal life, telling his audience, “We shouldn’t be attacking the vulnerable people.”

Meanwhile, due to public scrutiny surrounding the documentary, the #FreeBritney movement, and his past comments about Spears and Jackson, Justin Timberlake issued an apology to both women on Friday.

“I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and in many others and benefited from a system of misogyny and racism,” the singer-actor wrote in a statement posted to his Instagram. “I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed.”