Inside Falling for Christmas star Lindsay Lohan’s turbulent love life – Hollywood sex list to tragic ex & secret wedding
LINDSAY Lohan is back to her rom-com best in new Netflix film Falling for Christmas – after years in the wilderness.
The feel-good Christmas flick got 31.2 million views on Netflix in the first four days of landing on the platform – showing fans love seeing the actress doing what she does best.
Lindsay, 36, plays a bimbo hotel heiress who falls off a mountain, gets amnesia and learns the value of hard graft while finding true love.
And it’s no wonder viewers are cheering her on when we’ve all been avidly following her romantic endeavours for years.
And sometimes reality is stranger than fiction – with her turbulent love life looking like something straight out a rom-com.
From her ex’s tragic death to her star-studded sex list, we look at her past conquests.
First love – Wilmer Valderrama
As a child actress, 18-year-old Lindsay’s first public relationship was with that 70s Show actor Wilmer in 2004.
While the actor was seven years older than Lindsay, he was a doting boyfriend and visited when she was hospitalised with exhaustion.
Their love was short lived and they broke up after a year together.
It was rumoured at the time Wilmer dumped Lohan for singer Ashlee Simpson but he has denied this.
Lindsay’s only had kind words for the actor, telling US radio host Howard Stern he was a “good guy”.
Tragic ex – Harry Morton
Lindsay dated restaurateur Harry Morton in 2006 – and was devastated when he died in 2018.
Founder of the chain Pink Taco, Harry had reportedly been a good influence on hard-partying Lohan.
They split after a few months with Morton telling PEOPLE, she was “too much drama”.
Four years ago Morton was found dead at his Beverly Hills home, aged 38.
He was found to have died from a sudden heart attack from an undiagnosed cardiac condition.
Lohan marked his death with an Instagram post, reading: “Best friends. Best life.”
Infamous sex list
While filming a reality show on Oprah’s channel OWN, Lindsay’s list of past sexual partners was leaked to InTouch magazine.
It contained 36 names – including A-listers Justin Timberlake, Zac Efron, Orlando Bloom, Adam Levine and Heath Ledger.
Furious Lohan blamed the channel’s staff for leaking the list she made as part of her recovery in the AA programme.
She told US show Watch What Happens Live: “You know what, I’m going to get serious for a second… That was actually my fifth step in AA at Betty Ford.
“And someone, when I was moving during the OWN show, must have taken a photo of it.
“And so that’s a really personal thing, and it’s really unfortunate.”
Film fling – Harry Judd
McFly’s Harry Judd enjoyed a fling with Lindsay when they both filmed Just My Luck.
In a 2012 interview with The Mirror, Harry was anything but discreet about the encounter, where they went to “second base”.
The band had dinner with the actress and then ended up at a club.
He recalled: “Under the staircase was a room, dimly lit with red lights.
“A bed in the middle, and on the bed a couple having sex, there for everyone to see. The kind of party bands should be going to.”
They ended up in Harry’s hotel at 4am, and “then things started to get a bit more serious” and “steamier”.
He went on: “One thing led to another. We moved from first base to second base, and then, just as I was about to seal the deal, Danny walked in, ‘Oh sorry, mate!’.”
Bisexual romance – Samantha Ronson
Lohan’s on-again, off-again relationship with English DJ Samantha Ronson ended in turmoil in 2009.
They had been friends for years but grew closer that year and began to date, but Lindsay never hit it off with Sam’s fashionable family.
According to a source at People, when they broke up Samantha “changed the locks on her house”.
Another source told the outlet: “Sam’s family has made her swear that it’s really over.”
A decade later the actress spoke to Howard Stern about the coupling, and her coming out as bisexual.
Asked if she was judged for the relationship, she said: “Oh my God. I was the first one who was like, that came out about, really, for my age.”
‘Abusive’ ex-fiance – Egor Tarabasov
In 2016, shocking footage appeared of Lindsay physically fighting with her London-based Russian millionaire fiance Egor Tarabasov in Mykonos.
They appeared to be fighting over his phone – and Lindsay subsequently accused him of cheating and chucked the device in the sea.
That same year police smashed their way into her posh London flat after the couple had a furious bust-up, with Lindsay screaming he “almost killed” her.
She later said: “I realise now you can’t stay in a relationship just for love.
“No woman can be hit and stay with that person if that person isn’t prepared to say sorry.'”
They reportedly split up in 2017, after she accused him of abuse and stealing.
Secret wedding – Bader S. Shammas
Lindsay surprised fans in June this year by announcing she had wed Credit Suisse financier Bader S Shammas.
It’s not clear where the Dubai-based couple met but they have been together since 2018.
Lohan shared the news of their engagement in 2021 with an Instagram pic showing her ring.
She said of her new husband: “I am the luckiest woman in the world”, adding: “You found me and knew that I wanted to find happiness and grace, all at the same time.
“I am stunned that you are my husband. My life and my everything. every woman should feel like this every day [sic].”