Lindsay Lohan dishes on her ‘meaningful’ friendship with Amanda Seyfried

Lindsay Lohan is opening up about the “meaningful” friendship she shares with Amanda Seyfried, which has only grown stronger since they first shared the screen in 2004’s Mean Girls.

Speaking about their bond to GQ magazine for a new profile of Seyfried, Lohan said, “We’ve stayed close because there’s genuine trust and respect between us. What started as shared experience has grown into a meaningful friendship over time.”

Lohan further added that Seyfried is someone she can consistently “rely on” and connect over “life, motherhood and our families.” According to the former The Parent Trap child star, “That consistency is rare and something I really cherish.”

Seyfried, for her part, expressed a sense of protectiveness over Lohan, pointing out that they were close in age but living very different realities when they first met. Speaking of how the media constantly focused on and scrutinized Lohan, Seyfried said, “The outsized bashing is ugly. It’s like, a fear of mine. I would not want to be spotlit for being infamous in any way.”

“We’re almost the same age. I also wasn’t working at that level. The spotlight was on her, no matter what she did,” Seyfried added before admitting that her “ridiculous” 20s were not under the same level of scrutiny as Lohan’s in the 2000s.

“I mean, did I go clubbing? Yeah. Did I find myself at Val Kilmer’s house one night at 1 a.m. with [Mean Girls costars] Daniel Franzese and Jonathan Bennett? Did I find myself there with them in the pool? … I was at Val Kilmer’s house — I don’t even remember meeting him, but I was at his house,” Seyfried noted.

Back in 2022, Lohan and Seyfried talked about the bond the Mean Girls costars share during a joint interview with Interview Magazine. “We’re all part of each other’s worlds whether we like it or not, and it is really nice to be in contact as adults,” Seyfried said, with Lohan adding, “It’s fun to have certain memories that we can’t share with anyone else.”

Lohan has previously been candid about the emotional and psychological impact of being relentlessly tormented by paparazzi during her younger years. In late 2025, the actress told The Times, “I don’t ever want my family to experience being chased by the paparazzi the way I was.”

Opening up about the intense trauma it caused, she said, “They were terrifying moments I had in my life — I have PTSD to the extreme from those things. The most invasive situations. Really scary. And I pray stuff like that never comes back. It’s not safe. It’s not fair.”