Troubled star Lindsay Lohan recently learned you don’t mess with Oprah Winfrey.
The 27-year-old actress, who’s agreed to do a reality show for the media mogul’s TV network OWN, hasn’t been showing up to work on the project. This lead to an “intense showdown” between the pair.
Oprah decided to settle things once and for all by travelling to Lindsay’s mum Dina’s house on Long Island, where she told LiLo to get her act together or she wouldn’t get her $2 million pay cheque.
A source told TMZ that Lindsay offered a lot of excuses for her lack of focus on the TV show, including house-hunting in New York, other projects she was trying to finish, and “miscommunications” between her people and the team at OWN.
But this didn’t sit well with the 59-year-old, who wanted to know once and for all if she was serious.
“There was a lot of chaos going on,” Oprah recently told Access Hollywood about the situation.
“So I went to have a conversation, a real conversation about that, to say to her, ‘Do you want to do it? Because if you don’t want to do it, that’s OK. We could just end it. We don’t have to do it’.”
“And… ‘This is what’s conflicting about it.’ Because it’s television and we stand to gain if it does well. But the real truth is – and anybody who knows me, certainly my producers on the way there – [OWN President] Sheri Salata was in the car – I said, ‘If I get here and Lindsay isn’t serious, I will shut this thing down today.’”
After Oprah’s ultimatum, it seems Lindsay got the message and has been cooperating ever since. Her show is scheduled to debut in 2014.
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