Chronically out-of-work Lindsay Lohan says she’ll cast her ballot for Mitt Romney because having a job is “really important.”
The troubled star — who had been an ardent President Obama supporter — announced her plan to vote Republican on Thursday while on her way to an LA party to hype a new energy drink.
“I just think employment is really important right now,” the mercurial Linz told E! News. “So, as of now, [my vote] is Mitt Romney.”
Lohan then mysteriously added, “There’s more to the story, but you’re going to have to wait for that.”
Lohan, once one of Hollywood’s highest-earning young actresses with a net worth of $30 million, has lately been hard-pressed to find gigs between stints in rehab, court appearances and jail.
Work has dried up for the former “Mean Girls” star. Lohan’s latest project — playing Elizabeth Taylor in the Lifetime TV biopic “Liz & Dick” — is her first since 2010.
Meanwhile, before she votes for anyone, Lohan needs to update her voter registration, records show.
The actress was registered in California and voted in 2008.
But LiLo, 26, has since changed addresses and hasn’t registered at her new one, according to voter-registration records.
She has until Oct. 22 if she wants to vote in November.
Lohan, who made her pronouncement at the launch for Mr. Pink Ginseng Drink, didn’t elaborate yesterday on her political U-turn.
Lohan had been an Obama loyalist, sticking by the hope-and-change candidate in 2008 even after his camp rebuffed her offer of support, saying she was “not exactly the type of high-profile star who would be a positive for us.”
She attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington last spring and has tweeted about her approval of First Lady Michelle Obama.
Lohan also has retweeted President Obama’s positions on education and taxes but last month seemed to have lost her passion for him.
After his official Twitter accounted tweeted, “I’ve cut taxes for those who need it: middle-class families, small businesses,” Lohan responded with a plea for tax cuts for the rich.
“We also need to cut them for those that are listed on Forbes as ‘millionaires’ if they are not, you must consider that as well,” she tweeted.
Elsewhere in Lohan land, the actress appeared to have kissed and made up with the Chateau Marmont, the famed LA hotel from which she had been banned.
Lindsay, dressed in sky-high heels and a sparkly minidress, was spotted leaving the hotel, which also has a nightclub, in the wee hours Friday.
Lohan had been given the boot by management earlier this year after she racked up more than $46,000 in charges during a six-week stint and then walked out on the tab.
LiLo said that the nonpayment was a misunderstanding and that she thought her “Liz & Dick” handlers were going to foot the bill.