--- title: Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger description: "I almost lost my finger from the anchor" canonical: https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-03T03:28:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:57:50.081Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger in a Boat Accident og:description: Lohan posted a video to Instagram saying she needed surgery og:url: https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger in a Boat Accident twitter:description: Lohan posted a video to Instagram saying she needed surgery twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger in a Boating Accident by [Blake Bakkila / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Blake Bakkila / People Oct 3, 2016 3:28 AM UTC by [Blake Bakkila / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Blake Bakkila / People Oct 3, 2016 3:28 AM UTC Oh no, LiLo! [Lindsay Lohan](http://www.people.com/people/lindsay%5Flohan) says she is recovering from a boating accident that almost left her without her ring finger. On Sunday morning, the actress, 30, shared a video of her bandaged hand and explained what had happened. “I almost lost my finger from the anchor,” she wrote. “Well, I lost half my finger, thank goodness we found the piece of my finger… i just had surgery to fix it … it hurts so bad.” In the video, Lohan seemed to be recovering, as she told her followers, “This is the result of me trying to help anchor the boat by myself,” she said, laughing. “My poor finger!” While it’s unclear where the boating incident took place, Lohan recently [shared photos](https://www.instagram.com/p/BKyRenBB93v/?taken-by=lindsaylohan&hl=en) from a trip to Turkey, where she met with a family who fled from war-torn Aleppo. Her latest outings come in the wake of her breakup with fiancé [Egor Tarabasov](http://www.people.com/article/lindsay-lohan-happier-since-moving-london-new-relationship). [_This article originally appeared on People.com_](http://www.people.com/article/lindsay-lohan-almost-loses-finger-boating) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/"},"headline":"Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger in a Boating Accident","datePublished":"2016-10-03T03:28:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:57:50.081Z","description":"\"I almost lost my finger from the anchor\"","url":"https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/","keywords":["celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Blake Bakkila / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4516157/lindsay-lohan-finger-boating-accident/","name":"Lindsay Lohan Says She Lost Half of Her Finger in a Boating Accident"}}]}] ```