Lindsay Lohan’s Mission to Help Syrian Refugees Continues

Lindsay Lohan has had a few failed attempts at a proper comeback over the years, but now she’s taking a different approach. Instead of focusing on Hollywood, she’s focusing on Turkey. “I am deciding now if I will head back to do more work in refugee camps in Turkey and Antep during or after the New Year,” she revealed to Page Six recently. “The dates are not set yet. It depends on how Turkey feels after the recent terrorist attack in Istanbul. Not that any attack has or will ever stop me from helping those suffering, those who need our help the most.”

Despite the turmoil in her own life — which just this year has included everything from almost slicing off her finger in a boating accident to having a throwdown fight with her ex-fiancé that led to police being called — Lohan seems intent on spreading a message of peace to those in need. “Sending love, light, peace and hope to all of those suffering today,” she captioned an Instagram shot of herself sporting a floral headband. “Before you sleep tonight, consider praying for someone you’ve never met and needs a guiding light.”

Lilo already spent time in Turkey earlier this fall, documenting much of her efforts on social media. “I met a wonderful aid worker (Azize) at the Refugee Camp in Antep,” she wrote beside a picture of herself with the woman. “She saw that my eyes lit up when I told her that her headscarf is beautiful. She waved to me and said, Come with me; I followed her and she gifted it to me. I was so moved and touched by this that I wanted to wear it in appreciation for all of the generosity and love I received from everyone at the camp.” (Lohan does not seem to be wearing her engagement ring from Egor Tarabasov in the pic, but her ring finger is patched up with red tape — perhaps from that aforementioned boating mishap.)

The last time she commented on her relationship with Tarabasov, it sounded as though they were done. “I realize now you can’t stay in a relationship just for love,” she reasoned. “No woman can be hit and stay with that person if that person isn’t prepared to say sorry.”

So how will she spend the holidays if she does go back? “I always love giving gifts,” she added. “So, yes, for family and friends, most definitely I will be sending gifts. For me, I know it sounds silly, but, I am OK. I like to live by the act of giving. In all honesty, I am good with no materialistic gifts.” Still, her time abroad has involved sacrifice.

“I miss my family a lot,” she confessed. “But they are very supportive and understanding of the fact that my main focus is business, writing and soon to start another film. More so, my work with refugees.” It seems that now, however, Lohan considers herself to have two families, as explained beside a black-and-white picture of herself beside two small boys.

“Missing my other family. Coming back soon #theworldisbiggerthan5 for New Year’s Resolutions we should all help save those suffering,” she explained.

That hardly means she will be spending one of the biggest party nights of the year doing humanitarian work, however. “It will be announced soon, but I will be hosting New Year’s Eve at Zero Gravity in Dubai, which I am very excited about,” she said. In other words, she’s probably not the next Angelina Jolie … yet, anyway.