Bette Midler Reveals Why She Should Have Sued Lindsay Lohan

’s podcast Fail Better, Midler discussed some of her various career failures, which she said includes not “asserting” herself after her early-aughts sitcombegan to fall apart. Lohan, who was around 14 years old at the time, had signed on to play Midler’s daughter on the show, but backed out after shooting the pilot. She was later replaced with actress Marina Malota for the remainder of“Lindsay Lohan was cast as my daughter in the pilot,” she began.

Duchovny pointed out that Lohan’s contract should have prevented her from leaving the show, but Midler replied that she hadn’t been “in her right mind” to enforce any rules at the time. “If I had been in my right mind, or if I had known that my duties were to stand up and say, ‘This absolutely will not do, I’m gonna sue,’ then I would have done that,” she said.

This isn’t the first time Midler has talked about Lohan in the press since their failed collaboration, though she’s previously been quite warm toward her former co-star. In 2010, she expressed her regrets at watching Lohan go “off the deep end,” implying to British newspaperand rehab at the time. “ cruel, unsurvivable,” Midler said at the time, adding that she’d “watched some of these young people go off the deep end like and Britney .

The breakneck pace of making a sitcom was also a surprise to her. “I had no idea how fast people make ,” she said. “You have to give people so much credit when it’s great, because the speed of it is so taxing, and if you didn’t keep up, you were in big trouble. I was booked onand he said to me, ‘How do you like it so far?’ I said, ‘It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me in my entire life. It’s like being a dung beetle and pushing a pile of shit up a hill every day.

As for Lohan, she seems to have nothing but fond memories from working with Midler. Just last week, the 37-year-old actress

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