Lindsay Lohan has been making media rounds this summer to promote her resort Lohan Beach House in Mykonos, but a new interview is getting attention not for her foray into the hospitality world, but for what she said about women in the #MeToo era.

Speaking to British newspaper The Times, Lohan chose to call out women who come forward with accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment, saying they are “attention-seekers” and “weak.”

“If it happens at that moment, you discuss it at that moment,” she says. “You make it a real thing by making it a police report. I’m going to really hate myself for saying this, but I think by women speaking against all these things, it makes them look weak when they are very strong women. You have these girls who come out, who don’t even know who they are, who do it for the attention. That is taking away from the fact that it happened.”

She didn’t stop there. Lohan says that she has never had any negative experiences of the Me Too variety during her film career, which began when she was just a kid. “So, I don’t really have anything to say. I can’t speak on something I didn’t live, right? Look, I am very supportive of women,” she told The Times. “Everyone goes through their own experiences in their own ways.”

Well, that’s a take, for sure. And she concludes the interview by referencing the very public fight she had with her ex-fiancé Egor Tarabasov. “I had a fight with my ex on this very beach. What did I do? Nothing,” Lohan replies. “I just took over the beach. The best revenge is success, right?” In 2016, Lohan accused Tarabasov of domestic violence while they were dating. It’s unclear if she was touting the incident as an example of how women should handle violence or misconduct, but eyebrows are raised.

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This isn’t the first time the actress has found herself in hot water during the #MeToo era. In now-deleted posts on Instagram, Lohan initially defended Harvey Weinstein as allegations about the producer surfaced in the New York Times and the New Yorker last October.

“I feel very bad for Harvey Weinstein right now,” she says in them. “I don’t think it’s right what’s going on. I think Georgina needs to take a stand and be there for her husband. He’s never wronged me or done anything to me, and we’ve done several movies together. I think everyone needs to stop. It’s wrong, so stand up.”

She then attempted to clarify the comments, telling the Daily Mail. “I am saddened to hear about the allegations against my former colleague Harvey Weinstein,” she said. “As someone who has lived their life in the public eye, I feel that allegations should always be made to the authorities and not played out in the media.”

No word yet if she has clarifications on her latest remarks.

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