She is a former Nickelodeon star whose roles shaped a generation.
Her meltdown was very public. She is now sober, but not out of treatment
yet. She is now engaged, but is she in the right
state of mind to marry? 33-year-old Amanda Bynes is on her way to
recovery. And yet, her mother, who still has complete
legal control over Amanda’s financial and personal matters, is not sure she is totally
fine. After all, there are face tattoos, social media apologies... and fresh break-downs.
Team RumourJuice is here to investigate what is really going on with Amanda Bynes.
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culture. In December 2019, Amanda Bynes debuted her
two fresh face tattoos. The actress-turned-fashionista has also recently
introduced her fiance to the general public. As it was revealed by the media, she met Paul
Michael at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The pair have been dating for a few months.
Both of them can boast a solid year of being sober.
It is alleged that Paul is in his 20s, a son of a prominent LA doctor.
Like a proud bride, Amanda boasted of a massive diamond ring...
But is their marriage meant to be? After all, the actress’ mother does not
believe her daughter is in any capacity to make her own decision about her well-being
or treatment. And without the permission of her conservator, Amanda will be unable to
marry Paul. To which Amanda has issued a response on social
media: "Today I want to talk about a controversial
topic: My conservatorship case. I have been going to a treatment center that charges $5,200
a month. [...] This is why I've asked to see the judge [...] regarding this conservatorship
issue.” But the thing is that Bynes’ mother has
been in control of her life since Amanda first showed signs of struggling with drugs and
mental health issues. Bynes came to prominence as a teen star. The
youngest of three ids in the family, her talent for the drama was evident. At the age of 7,
she got her first agent. First, she was a successful commercial actress. Next, a Nickelodeon
producer saw her talent and was impressed. Amanda started her career in All That, a sketch
show. Eventually, she was offered her own show — called, unsurprisingly, The Amanda
Show — and became a true young comedy star. Along came both movies and TV shows. Most
notably, she starred in She's the Man alongside the then-unknown Channing Tatum. In fact,
Amanda Bynes fought for the guy to be cast in the movie.
She persuaded the producers: “This guy's a star — every girl will love him!”
She's the Man, however, was not an entirely positive experience. When Amanda saw herself
on the big screen, she did not like the image. "I've never told anyone that," Amanda said
in her interview with Paper Magazine in 2018. According to her, it was "a super strange
and out-of-body experience. It just really put me into a funk."
She confessed: "I went into a deep depression for 4-6 months because I didn't like how I
looked when I was a boy". The star says she did not start going out
until she was 25, she still fairly quickly went from “innocently” smoking marijuana
to more serious mind-altering drugs. "Later on it progressed to doing molly and
ecstasy," she said in a 2018 interview. "[I tried] cocaine three times but I never got
high from cocaine. I never liked it. It was never my drug of choice."
The drug she loved? Adderall. "I definitely abused Adderall," she confessed.
In 2012 and 2013, after years of being in spotlight, Bynes showed first signs of concerning
behaviour. Eventually, after several durg- and driving-related arrests, the actress was
hospitalized. When police entered her apartment in connection
to her being charged with reckless endangerment and marijuana possession, Bynes allegedly
threw a bong out the window. Among other things, she has set a fire in
her parents' neighbors' driveway. She has released a series of very strange tweets.
At the time, she publically accused her father of emotional and sexual abuse in a series
of tweets. When confronted by her parents, Bynes said a microchip in her brain made her
say those things… But also, it was her father who ordered the mysterious “them” to microchip
her. Bynes also went after a number of celebrities,
calling them “ugly” in a bizarre series of tweets.
In the past years, however, Bynes showed signs of getting a grip on her own life.
That is why she pursued her long-time passion for fashion and enrolled at the LA Fashion
Institute of Design and Merchandising. An insider source at the Institute said Bynes
is doing really well and the professors love her.
Bynes has publicly apologized to everyone she had offended in the past.
"I can't turn back time but if I could, I would. And I'm so sorry to whoever I hurt
and whoever I lied about because it truly eats away at me. It makes me feel so horrible
and sick to my stomach and sad," Bynes said. Here is what the actress has to say to those
who struggle with problems similar to hers: “Be really, really careful because you could
lose it all and ruin your entire life like I did.”
Amanda Bynes’ parents are still very cautious of the decisions she makes on her own, including
her engagement and possible marriage in the future.
All we can do is wait and see… and hope for the better for our favourite actress-turned-fashion
scholar, Amanda Bynes.