Mean Girls costars Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan are still going strong after more than 20 years of friendship.
“We’ve stayed close because there’s genuine trust and respect between us,” Lohan, 39, told GQ magazine in a new profile of Seyfried published on Monday, June 15. “What started as shared experience has grown into a meaningful friendship over time. Now we talk more about life, motherhood and our families. She’s always someone I can rely on. That consistency is rare and something I really cherish.”
Seyfried, 40, meanwhile, told the outlet that she had a front-row seat to how Lohan’s every move was scrutinized in the mid-2000s.
“The outsized bashing is ugly,” she said. “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.
Lohan, Seyfried, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert played the Plastics in 2004’s Mean Girls, boosting all of their careers. However, only Lohan was a tabloid staple at the time, alongside the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
Unlike her former costar, Seyfried said, she didn’t have as much attention on her.
“I mean, did I go clubbing? Yeah,” she told the outlet. “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 18 and I had just moved to LA and we had gone to a screening of Reefer Madness. I was at Val Kilmer’s house — I don’t even remember meeting him, but I was at his house.”
“My 20s were ridiculous,” she added. “I found myself at many places. I also remember there was a time I could have done cocaine for the first time at the Chateau [Marmont], and I didn’t because I was scared. And so there was a limit to how much partying I was going to do, because I only wanted to be so drunk that I could [still] get myself home.”
Now that she’s older, Seyfried lives on a farm in the Hudson Valley in New York state with husband Thomas Sadoski and their two children: daughter Nina, 9, and son Thomas, 5.
“I always wanted a bucolic life. I always wanted to have a farm. I was always searching for an out,” she told GQ of escaping big-city life.
The farm is about a two-hour drive from Manhattan and “unreachable by design,” according to the magazine.
“No one would know there was a farm on this road,” Seyfried said. “This is private; there’s woods; I feel so protected.”
