HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Shannen Doherty believes her party girl days pale in comparison to the antics of today's young stars.
"The irony is that, if I was doing the same stuff now, I wouldn't be getting the attention," the former Beverly Hills, 90210 star tells Parade magazine. "Like I never did a sex tape. I never didn't wear panties and flash a camera. You sort of stop and go, 'Wow, it's sort of what's acceptable now.' And, then, they always have excuses. When I made a mistake, I would admit to it. These girls don't seem to see their own mistakes, much less learn from them."
The now 39-year-old actress says she can't even relate to the troubles of one Lindsay Lohan.
"It's such a horrific situation that I don't even know what to say," she says of Lohan. "I just have kind of tried to tune it out. I totally understand that it's newsworthy, but it just seems so tragic to me. I mean, Lindsay's dad giving a press conference at the end was just like, 'Oh, my God.' I've been acting for 29 years. My parents have never given a press conference, ever. It all seems so exploitative."
So what advice would Doherty offer to Lohan?
"I think that it's still about having faith in yourself," says Doherty, who's looking back on her past mistakes in the book Badass: A Hard-Earned Guide to Living Life with Style and (the Right) Attitude. "You've hit some road bumps and maybe they made you fall down and you've got some gravel and asphalt in your face because things are that bad. But have faith because you can get better and you can become the woman that I'm sure you want to be."
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