Bosses at Britain's BBC TV network have come to the defence of Lindsay Lohan after she was accused of exaggerating her good work on a recent trip to India.
The Mean Girls star flew to New Delhi last week (beg07Dec09) to shoot a BBC documentary about poverty and human trafficking and within hours of arriving she had updated her Twitter.com blog page with news of her good deeds.
Lohan wrote, "Over 40 children saved so far... Within one day's work... This is what life is about. Doing THIS is a life worth living!!!"
But Lohan's comments attracted criticism from charity organisers who conducted raids which saved dozens of kids from illegal sweatshops, with a spokesman for Indian campaign group Bachpan Bachao Andolan insisting Lohan wasn't "even in the country when this raid happened."
A spokesman for the BBC claims Lohan was merely commenting on recent events - not claiming responsibility for the good work.
The rep says, "Lindsay Lohan has just completed filming in India for a BBC Three project on child trafficking. We would like to stress that she did not say she was present at the raid, this is a misinterpretation. She was merely referring to a raid that happened connected to child trafficking - the subject of the programme."
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