Lindsay Lohan: My F-Word Manicure Was Only a Joke

Lindsay Lohan's rude finger. Wireimage.com

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, July 7. "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 on Tuesday showed "F--- U" written on her left middle finger.

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"There's no legal ramifications from this. She has a First Amendment right to wear anything she wants," a prominent criminal defense attorney, Trent Copeland, tells WHO. "But it's just not the brightest thing in the world to go into court like that."

For the full story on Lindsay Lohan being locked up, see this week's WHO Magazine, on sale Friday, July 9

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