Everyone knows what supposedly happened – Lindsay Lohan went to guest star in six episodes of Ugly Betty, but she was like really mean to the Ugly Betty girl and she totally smoked a lot of cigarettes and she ended up only doing four episodes because nobody liked her – but that might not be the case.

Vanessa Williams, who we’re told is also on Ugly Betty, says that Lindsay Lohan wasn’t the monster she’s been painted to be. In fact, Vanessa Williams says that Lindsay Lohan was completely professional and hard-working throughout her time on the show. And she’s worked with Victoria Beckham, so she knows a professional hard-worker when she sees one.

Ugly Betty has already killed several things in its time – like most of our braincells and our will to live – but it looks like the show has just claimed its biggest scalp yet; Lindsay Lohan’s career.

That’s Lindsay Lohan’s acting career, by the way. Yes, Lindsay Lohan is an actress. No, really, she is. She’s been in loads of stuff, like the film about the amnesiac stripper that nobody saw, the film about three generations of hateful women that nobody saw, the film about an unlucky woman that nobody saw, the film about Bobby Kennedy that nobody saw, the Robert Altman film that nobody saw and the film about John Lennon that nobody saw. Lindsay Lohan is a successful actress, seriously.

Or at least she was – Ugly Betty might have changed that. Last week we reported how Lindsay Lohan had seen her scheduled six-episode guest spot on Ugly Betty get carved down by a third thanks to rumours of her unruly behaviour, unprofessionalism, chainsmoking, giant entourages, bizarre feuds with America Ferrara and confusing habit of clipping photos of herself from magazines and putting them in a scrapbook.

Now people are saying that because Lindsay Lohan has lost the ability to open movies and now can’t even appear on Ugly Betty without falling out with everyone, she’ll never work again. After all, appearing on Ugly Betty can’t be that hard – Naomi Campbell managed it. And she’s Naomi Campbell for crying out loud – we hear that if you so much as breathe incorrectly within a 50-foot radius of her she’ll fly into rage, beat you into a coma and destroy everything you’ve ever loved with her bare fists.

So Lindsay Lohan needs a supporter, and that’s exactly what she’s got in Vanessa Williams. Vanessa Williams is also apparently a member of the Ugly Betty cast, and she says that Lindsay Lohan was nothing short of lovely all the time. Digital Spy reports:

Vanessa Williams has denied speculation that Lindsay Lohan’s role in Ugly Betty was cut due to attitude problems. “I had a few scenes with Lindsay. She was a hard worker, she showed up on time and in the scenes I had with her, she was completely prepared. In terms of me working with Lindsay, she was professional, she knew her lines and she was great with me.”

Oh no! Conflicting stories! What can this mean? Here are some theories:

1 - Vannessa Williams also dislikes America Ferrara, and is siding with Lindsay lohan to spite her.

2 - Having starred in the 2000 remake of Shaft, Vanessa Williams feels that it’s her duty to help out anyone else who’s been in dreadful movies.

3 - Vanessa Williams really, really wants to see a sequel to Herbie: Fully Loaded.

4 - Lindsay Lohan was actually hardworking and professional on the set of Ugly Betty and the reduction of her part had nothing to do with her attitude whatsoever.

Let’s just pray that it wasn’t the last one. We’d have to rebuild our entire belief system if that was the case.