Lindsay Lohan Asks TikTok User to Take Down Viral Cameo (EXCLUSIVE)
On Jan. 3, 20-year-old TikTok person @shhlana — who typically posts about TV reveals akin to “Julie and the Phantoms” and “The Wilds” — posted a TikTok saying, “Guys, I think I’m going to have to come out to my parents soon.” Last week, she posted an replace, saying she had not but talked to them. “But hear me out,” she mentioned. “What if I got Lindsay Lohan to tell my parents? She’s on Cameo right now. And wouldn’t that be iconic?”
Well, Lohan did do a Cameo for Alana, but no — she didn’t assume it might be proper to come out for her.
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Instead, the actor-entrepreneur provided Alana kind-hearted phrases of recommendation: “Hi, Alana, it’s Lindsay Lohan. I know that you are about to take a very big step in telling your parents who you truly are and what you want them to accept of you — and I think you should do it yourself. I think that coming from you, you’ll feel a lot of power and strength. And it’s important that you are who you truly are, and that you love yourself and that you can live by that and tell your parents that.”
The TikTok with Lohan’s candy response went viral, with greater than half one million views and counting since she posted it on Sunday. It’s been posted on Twitter as properly. Soon the press caught on too, with shops like E! Online and People writing tales about Lohan’s encouragement. The protection, in actual fact, precipitated Alana to hurry up and discuss to her mother and father: In a subsequent TikTok Monday, she mentioned she got here out to them as a result of she “didn’t want them to find out on the internet.”
“And they took it well,” she mentioned. “That’s good — I’m feeling really, really relieved.”
Heartwarming, sure? But on Tuesday, Alana instructed Variety that she had gotten a message from the Lindsay Lohan Cameo account asking her to take the video down. A screenshot of the request mentioned: “Hi! Just wanted to ask if you could take the cameo down because it was private for your use only.”
A consultant for Lohan didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. A consultant for Cameo instructed Variety, “The user has a license to share the unedited video.”
And so it stays up. Alana — who goes to UC Berkeley, is doing digital college from her house in Southern California due to the coronavirus pandemic and requested that her final title not be used — mentioned that the thought to ask a celeb to come out to her mother and father for her “came into my head randomly.”
She scrolled by Cameo in search of the precise particular person — and saw Lohan. “I had no idea she was on there,” Alana mentioned. “And I thought, ‘Wow, this would be so amazing.’ I grew up watching Lindsay in all of her movies. Like ‘The Parent Trap,’ ‘Freaky Friday’ — all those movies basically were my childhood.”
When Lohan despatched the Cameo, it got here with a message that she may redo it, Alana mentioned, if she wasn’t happy with it. “I ended up like messaging her and telling her, ‘No, thank you. This was amazing. I’m definitely inspired.’”
She hadn’t been certain that she would publish the Cameo to TikTok if Lohan really had achieved what she’d requested, Alana mentioned. She modified her thoughts when she acquired Lohan’s supportive phrases: “My initial reaction was, ‘I know there are so many people out there who need to hear this message, who are also struggling whether or not to come out — whether or not to be true to themselves.’ I didn’t think it was gonna blow up — whoever saw it, that was enough for me.”
Yet blow up it did. Other than the occasional remark that she ought to demand a refund, the TikTok has garnered help for Alana — and love for Lohan. “2 QUEENS. I am crying,” learn one remark.
As for Alana’s popping out — she mentioned she identifies as bisexual or queer — mission achieved. In the frenzy of publicity, she talked to each of her mother and father individually on Monday. “It was definitely a little nerve-racking, a little emotional.”
Lohan’s request apart, Alana plans to go away the TikTok up, and mentioned she’s “confused” about why Lohan would need it eliminated. In the top, she acquired precisely what she wished out of the expertise — even in a circuitous method.
But as for the naysayers within the feedback saying that Lohan ought to have achieved what Alana initially requested, she disagrees: “I actually am way more grateful that she sent that instead.”
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