Profanity on My Finger Was a Joke, Says Lindsay Lohan

Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after the judge presiding her case ruled that she’d been in violation of her parole for not attending alcohol ed classes as ordered. While in court, the star made a point of putting her fingers to her mouth, which made it so that the message she had written on the nail of her middle finger was visible – and it seemed to be directed to the judge.

To put it more clearly (but still in terms that would offend no one), Lindsay had a profanity inked on her fingernail, which was interpreted as her take on the case against her and her opinion of the judge who, before this hearing, had gone on the record saying she planned to make an example of Lindsay by throwing the book at her. While buzz that she may have just increased her jail sentence, the star is taking to her Twitter to explain that “[Expletive] U” on her fingernail was just a joke she and some of her friends had shared before the trial, People magazine says.

“Lindsay Lohan says her explicit fingernail message was not directed at the judge who sentenced her to 90 days in jail. ‘Didn’t we do our nails as a joke with our friend?’ Lohan Tweeted to a pal on Wednesday. ‘It had nothing to do w/court… it’s an airbrush design from a stencil.’ Lohan created a stir when up-close shots of her hand from her sentencing Tuesday showed ‘[Explicit] U’ written on her left middle finger,” People says. However, the explanation may come a bit too late to save her.

NYC Public Defender Stacy Schneider tells Fox411 that Lindsay may be held in contempt of court for her gesture, which means more time behind bars. “She could have an entire extra sentence heaped on top of her current one. If the judge were angry enough, it could run even consecutively. It’s up to her lawyer to catch things like that. A bra strap that shows or a boxer line that shows is pretty bad, but this tops the cake,” Schneider says.

Since pictures showing Lindsay’s obscene message have surfaced online, bloggers have been debating about who the recipient of the message might be. Most of them, however, choose to use it as the best argument to bring down Lindsay’s entire plea of how she was not taking her legal predicament as a joke, saying she was very serious about it because it was her “life and [her] career,” with headlines like “This is Lindsay taking the legal system very seriously.” Her explanation does nothing in terms of making this go away. 

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