Lindsay Lohan Returns to ‘Stressful’ Hollywood for ‘Freakier Friday’ Red Carpet Premiere—After She Traded Los Angeles for Dubai

Lindsay Lohan returned to the glitz and glamour of Hollywood and reunited with her old co-stars for the “Freakier Friday” premiere—after admitting that Los Angeles leaves her feeling “stressed.”

The 38-year-old actress turned heads when she stepped out onto the highly anticipated film’s purple carpet in a form-fitting white dress and posed for snaps with her “Freaky Friday” pals Jamie Lee Curtis and Chad Michael Murray.

The longtime friends embraced as they shot the flashing cameras a smile, a move that Lohan previously confessed caused her to become anxious.

Lohan made a triumphant return to Hollywood when it was announced that producers were getting the team back together for the sequel, which will hit screens on Aug. 8 and is said to cement the star’s Hollywood comeback.

However, Lohan previously confessed that she doesn’t like spending time in California because she is always paranoid about the cameras.

The actress ditched Los Angeles and relocated to Dubai in 2014, a decision she revealed she made due to her stress and one that she hasn’t looked back on.

“It’s hard in L.A. Even taking my son to the park in L.A., I get stressed. I’m like, ‘Are there cameras?'” she confessed to “Saturday Night Live” star Chloe Fineman in an interview for Elle.

Although Lohan conceded that New York—where she was born and raised—affords her much more privacy than L.A., Dubai gives her the best of both worlds.

“In New York, there’s no worry; no one bothers us. Everyone has their own thing going on,” she said.

“There’s a different kind of energy in New York. I’d rather have downtime in New York than I would in L.A. But the nice thing about L.A. is, I like space [and you get that here].

“But I’m thinking as I’m saying this, the funny thing is, in Dubai I get all of those things. I get the privacy, I get the peace, I get the space. I don’t have to worry there; I feel safe.”

Although Lohan lives primarily in Dubai with her husband, Bader Shammas, and their son, Luai, she admits that they have spent less than half of the past year in their home country because of work commitments in the U.S.

She notes that Dubai might not end up as their permanent home in the future, explaining that she and Shammas, 38, need to decide where they want their son, who will be 2 in July, to attend school—a choice that might take them away from the country they currently call home.

Though she has some complicated feelings about life in L.A., Lohan said she felt privileged to have filmed “Freakier Friday” in the city before the California wildfires ravaged multiple neighborhoods, destroying the home in which the original movie was shot.

“Now, the film is such an homage to California after the fires, because we shot a lot in the Palisades and in Malibu,” she shared. “Even the house—the original ‘Freaky Friday’ house—unfortunately, is gone. So I think it’ll be a really nice love letter.”

The property where Lohan’s character, Anna Coleman, and her mother, Tess Coleman, played by Curtis, lived was located in the Pacific Palisades, which was devastated by the California wildfires at the start of 2025.

According to records, the prior owner of the “Freaky Friday” house opted to sell the vacant lot on which the property had been located for $4 million in April. The 8,628-square-foot lot had been listed for $4.3 million.

The listing noted that the land was once home to a 4,891-square-foot, two-story family home. The buyer would have an opportunity to “build a larger three-level home with a habitable finished basement” on the same plot, it said.

“A unique opportunity to stake your claim in one of the most celebrated neighborhoods in Pacific Palisades,” the listing said. “Be part of the Renaissance of the Huntington!”

As for Lohan’s own dwelling in Dubai, where she is raising her son, she has rarely shared images of the property in a bid to safeguard its location.

While she was living in Los Angeles, the actress—who was raised on Long Island—spent several years residing in hotel rooms, including the iconic Chateau Marmont, where she is understood to have stayed for multiple months while filming the movie “Liz & Dick.”

She also rented a sprawling Beverly Hills property for $8,000 a month, before she relocated to Dubai full time.

However, before Lohan hit the big time, she lived on Long Island with her mother, Dina, and her siblings Ali, Michael Jr., and Dakota.

In 2018, the property in which the actress was raised was auctioned off after it was foreclosed upon, when her mother defaulted on a $1.3 million loan she had taken out on the property, which was purchased in 2004 for $650,000.

JPMorgan Chase Bank sued Dina for defaulting on the loan in 2014, but she was able to hold off foreclosure and keep the home until the bank went back to court in February 2016 to restart foreclosure proceedings.

In 2013, while Lohan was filming her docuseries for OWN network, Oprah Winfrey herself drove to the Merrick home to confront the star about not showing up to work.

“You need to cut the bull—-,” Winfrey told Lohan. “Keep your commitments.”

The home was also featured in the opening scenes of Dina’s own reality-show star turn in “Living Lohan.”