Last week, Amanda Bynes got another DUI. As it turns out, her conservatorship ended in September and her parents thought she was “cured” from the marijuana, so Amanda left home and proceeded to try her damnedest to hit rock bottom yet again. She got her DUI in LA, and soon after her arrest and release, she flew to NYC, which is a bad sign. There were about a million stories last week about her relapse, but I didn’t cover much beyond noting her DUI. One of the strangest stories (in a week full of weirdness) was that Amanda had been kicked out of fashion school after she tried to pay another student to do her work.
My take is still that Amanda is struggling with some kind of (profound) mental illness. This kind of messiness is not JUST from smoking the reefer, although I doubt the reefer helps. Amanda is profoundly unwell. But here’s a question: what is the responsibility of the media during this moment of Amanda’s downward spiral? Do we just act as stenographers, reporting the cold hard facts of Amanda’s situation? I don’t know. But I do know that this In Touch Weekly exclusive interview with Amanda made me feel gross:
Where will Amanda Bynes be making her next trip? Down the aisle, she says! The 28-year-old told In Touch Weekly exclusively that she not only has a 19-year-old boyfriend named Caleb, but also that they’re engaged! Her claim comes days after her arrest on DUI charges in California and a return to the concerning behavior that caused her to spend months under medical care.
“I am very needy for friendship and I hate men. I want to f— them, but I can now say I’m engaged — get away from me,” she told an In Touch reporter yesterday, Oct. 5. “I want to be married and I want to be away from people.”
She claimed her 19-year-old fiancé lives in Costa Mesa, California, and works in a bait shop. She told In Touch she hopes they can settle down in New York because she “really [likes] walking and riding [her] bike, and in California, you need to drive.”
“I really do not enjoy driving,” she said. “I don’t like the way I look in a car. The lighting is very bad.”
After saying “I do,” she plans to start a family with her husband-to-be —and hopes to have lots of baby boys.
“I want boys, for sure. However many I can pop out,” she told In Touch. “I don’t want a gorgeous girl around. Then I [would] feel way jealous. Ew.”
While she has yet to set a date for her alleged nuptials, she told the mag she will be exchanging vows at the London hotel in LA. The former child star is an aspiring fashion designer, and even enrolled in classes at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in California, but she said she’s hoping to leave the dress design up to someone else.
“I honestly would rather not [design my dress], but I’m so particular about how I look that I cannot imagine not designing it,” Amanda told In Touch.
On Sept. 28, Amanda was arrested in California and charged with driving under the influence. Days later, a source spotted the actress talking to herself at Los Angeles International Airport before boarding a flight to NYC — where she was allegedly seen talking to trees with a Band-Aid on her face.
OH GOD. Do you understand why I asked about the media’s role in this situation? It’s obvious that Amanda really did give In Touch Weekly this interview and they didn’t editorialize about her situation too much. But if you were on the phone with Amanda Bynes, wouldn’t you want to say, “Hey, sweetheart. Let’s get you checked into a psych ward, okay?” Also: what’s the over/under on her “19-year-old fiancé” being real person and not just a figment of her imagination?
Here are some photos of Bynes walking around NYC yesterday, flashing a big diamond ring. Gurl…
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, Fame/Flynet.
Sad. Sad. Sad.
I wonder if her parents truly blamed this on “the Marijuana” . Does that even make sense? It’s like blaming “the Prozak”, as both are just attempts to medicate stress and or a mental illness. I truly believe that pot is terrible for those with spiked seratonin levels, but sheesh, can her “conservators” really be that unaware of her real issues?
Maybe it’s easier for them to blame an external force than face reality. The irony.
Its always easier to place blame other than where it’s origins truly are. Perhaps her parents are narcissists – this comes from somewhere. Drug use is a symptom of something else. Narcissistic abusers are clever at hiding themselves and often those around them appear to be the crazy ones.
Did her parents REALLY blame it all on pot, or is that just what TMZ is saying? TMZ isn’t always truthful.
Mitch -Mental illness is unlikely to be the fault of the parents. Like cancer, it just happens. There is very little her parents can do about it because of her age, unless the court intervenes again. They’ve tried before, even relocating to be near her (her response was to move again). She’s obviously not in her right mind, based on the interview. But the court can act only if she is deemed a threat to herself or others (as she was with the fire setting episode).
That interview is scary. Amanda needs to get some help before she hurts herself or someone else. The fact she got another DUI should be proof alone
Very scary. And InTouch should be ashamed of themselves for printing it. She is profoundly unwell and they used it for clicks. Gross.
Oh no, she does not sound well.
I feel so bad for this kid. I don’t know what exactly her mental illness is but I hope she gets help soon
So sad. I hope she gets the help she needs.
What!? Is that interview for real?
She hates men. I wonder why? Something happened to her, I’m sure of it. It all hit her at once, sadly.
Dan Schneider probably happened to her, unfortunately. There’s been way too much smoke for that fire not to have some truth to it.
Speaking of Dan Schneider, have you heard about the child molestation story surrounding the actor who played the pastor/father on the show 7th Heaven? This world is filled with evil people.
TALIE I absolutely agree with your insight. My personal opinion is that her parents did not protect her – in fact, they actually sold her out. No wonder she hates them (and hates men, except for her fictional bf and imaginary babies). The parental conservatorship cleaned her up for the press – the parents blamed the demon weed, but as far as I know they never acknowledged her severe mental problems because they wanted their meal ticket back on the market ASAP.
Who are those boys walking with her?
That doesn’t make sense. If they wanted to keep their meal ticket they would have tried to extend the conservatorship which they did not. She is an adult and they do not get any of her money as the situation stands now. They seem like sweet old people who may have been in denial that their daughter had a mental health issue.
if her parent’s kept the exact nature of her illness quiet, it most likely was to protect her earning power for her own good. I doubt very much her parents are supported by her earnings.
Her parents, like most parents of children with mental illnesses, are probably overwhelmed by the job of trying to help her. She is an adult and they have no legal right to control her, nor any legal grounds to do so. It’s easy to “blame the parents” but the truth is, they can’t do much for her even if they want to. There are not a lot of services or options available to help people with mental illness. Our society just wants to label people “crazy” and ignore them or blame drugs or bad parents.
What a horrible comment. Her parents fought hard for the conservatorship (which is very hard to get) her last go around, and after all of the rehab, treatment, etc. they may have realized there is nothing they can do with their adult daughter unless she decides she wants the help (outside of becoming an obvious danger to others or herself, which is decided by the courts and is what happened last time). That’s the sad truth about mental illness in America.
I don’t think at this stage she should be hanging around a bunch of teenagers skater boys,poor thing has really lost touch with reality.
But at least the one on the left looks like he’s genuinely concerned about her. Can’t say that about anyone else in her entourage.
The blonde on her right, the photos left, is probably her fiance. He’s looking at her protectively. That kid needs to run and Amanda needs serious help. She sounds completely insane.
See – I think he’s looking at Mr. pouty lips on the right. His gaze seems like it’s going behind her, where the guy’s back a bit. I really doubt that either of those boys is the fiance.
I agree Erinn. Both of those boys are pinging my gaydar.
Do you really think she has a fiancée? One of the first stops she made in NY was to the Cartier store – and now she’s wearing a diamond. Unfortunately I think most of her reality is in her head at this point. Sad.
I heard a report on the radio that people close to Bynes said that the boyfriend is fictional.
Those poor children, what happens if she does pops out a girl? Cinderella comes to mind… I think we should send someone up to Planet Bynes to bring her back to earth…
I feel nothing but sad after reading that interview.
Yeah this is way more than weed, her parents can keep burying their heads in the sand but someone has to help her before she kills herself or someone else.
Totally. Weed does not do that to anyone, I don’t care how much they smoke a day. He grasp on reality is tenuous, at best.
Getting a DUI means the offender has been hitting the bottle regularly, and hard, and doesn’t even begin to comprehend the gravity of his/her choice to drink and drive. If this abuse isn’t driven by some emotional/sexual trauma, I would be shocked. Maybe she has a genetic predilection for some mental illness, IDK, but it isn’t just addiction. She can’t even begin to feign normalcy as a cover like addicts usually do.
It is really so very sad. I hope to god she doesn’t have children. Think of the damage she’d do.
Plenty of people get DUIs that are not “hitting the bottle regular”. My mother was caught for this and spent a night in jail because of an over-zealous cop who later lost her job for her abuse of power and her false DUI arrests. MADD even gave the cop an award for her record number of DUI collars before she was caught. It happens. It only takes a couple drinks and one bad decision to be DUI, and sometimes not even that.
I have really grown to hate her parents. They totally absolutely deny her mental illness and I get creeped out just by looking at their always smiling faces. And I always thought it was weird how they marched her around for pap strolls after she got out of the hospital earlier this year (or was it last year? I’ve lost track of the timeframe).
I know she has two older siblings. I hope they aren’t in denial about her condition and can step up and get her the help she needs.
Please don’t hate people based on the word of TMZ. I didn’t understand what they really do until I was able to compare their reporting to an actual document. They misrepresent and invent things. They assign motivation or opinions to people in an attempt to set up “characters” like on a reality show. They aren’t there to spread the facts, they just want to create a narrative.
What they wrote about her parents and their denial of her illness and their blame on pot…it might be true, but it is also VERY possible that it isn’t.
My disdain for her parents has almost nothing to do with TMZ. My feelings are from everything I’ve read and seen about them (from all media sources). I could be completely off base on this but something just rubs me wrong with her parents.
Poor, poor girl…She sound schizophrenic…Her parents need to get back their conservatorship and get this girl help! Mental health issues are truly hard to get help for in this America (I don’t know about other countries). My 25 year old son was having severe depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide…I can’t tell you how long it took me to find a psychitrist to even return my phone calls…and then it takes weeks to get an appointment…everyday, I would wake up (that is, if I slept at all) and was afraid to knock on my son’s bedroom door, afraid of what I might find. And the cost is unreal, and I am lucky enough to have insurance on him, and it still cost a fortune, so I don’t know how people without insurance can get any help…its so scary when someone you love so, so much is struggling and you have no help…
jesus. that’s terrible. i hope that you were able to find someone to help your son, and that he’s better. (i have gone through issues finding a psychiatrist years ago, but it must be infinitely harder to see someone you love so much unable to get help. the entire system is sadly broken in so many places.)
Oh, MrsBPitt, I’m so sorry for your heartbreaking situation. I hope your son is getting help now, and you are more at peace. You’re such a lovely person. I’m sorry this is happening in your life.
I’m really sorry to hear about your son. It’s bloody tough and intense freaking with mental health issues, I hope you are looking after you as well.
The sad part is that the cost of treating patients and preventing mental illness from getting so bad in the first place is negligible compared to the cost of actual human suffering. All the things associated with poor mental health- prison, grief, los s of work place productivity etc are expensive. If we as a society took it more seriously and had the help available, it would save a lot of suffering and dollars. And all those programs that are needed could be funded, so people like you and your son wouldn’t have to experience such heart ache
Thanks to all….we finally found someone to help him and he is on three different medications…he has good days and bad days…I just wish he could be happy…he is a sweet, kind, lovely person, most of the time…he is my baby and I would do anything I could to take away his pain…
that’s heartbreaking. i can’t imagine what it’s like to see your child in such pain. 🙁 your son will get better. the right doctor and the right medication(s) can do absolute wonders.
MrsBPitt, sending a hug through the internet.
Your son is very lucky to have you.
She is clearly mentally ill , we as decent humans should be there to help.. nobody should make fun of her or humiliate her. she’s showing symptoms of schizophrenia and she is probably not taking her meds. I hope someone will take her under their wing and try to help her. I thought her parents were trying to take care of her? Did they give up?
I’m with you 100% on this one. She is a danger to herself and others.
I agree, but I don’t think the legal system will see it our way. Not until something drastic happens, and she may unravel for a long time before intervention can be mandated.
I feel like something needs to change in our legal system in regards to mental illness. I really don’t want mentally sound people being put into a hospital without their consent for being eccentric or odd, but I also feel like the “wait until someone gets hurt” policy is not acceptable either.
In college, one of my friends changed drastically and suddenly. I talked with my psych professor, and we both thought she needed mental health care. However, nothing could be done without her consent and so she had to nearly get herself killed (hitch hiking and walking miles in a blizzard) in order to get her into the hospital where she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
I agree and feel that the media have a field day on her ( I know that will never change). But I don’t think anyone should laugh at her or mock her because she clearly is not well. I hope she gets the help she needs and was really sad to see her relaps, as I thought she was doing well.
I agree. It’s a severe, scary situation and I feel very afraid for her. Poor girl.
It’s sad to watch as well as scary. If the system in the US is similar to Australia, then unfortunately it’s hard to get someone treatment if they don’t want it. Unless they are at risk of suicide.
I hope that her parents are trying to get her help, but if she is indeed suffering from bipolar or schizophrenia, she may have decided she is “cured” and doesn’t need her meds.
That a magazine would think it is any way appropriate to publish an interview from her at this time is disgusting.
Society needs to recognise that illness of the mind is just as significant as physical illness.
If she is even on meds. Her parents may not have thought she needed them. If there are parents who refuse cancer treatment for their kids, there are parents who would prefer to believe that getting clean will stop the symptoms of mental illness.
The real problem is that, even if her parents are on board that she needs psychiatric help, Amanda is an adult, and they have no authority without that conservatorship. She’s likely to continue this cycle for the rest of her life (off the rails, forced into treatment, feels better, stops taking meds or meds stop working, off the rails, forced into treatment, feels better, stops taking meds or meds stop working, etc. etc.).
“Amanda is an adult, and they have no authority without that conservatorship. ”
Its true.
Kelley Thomas, the homeless man beaten to death by California police after they said they were going to “f– him up”, was a schizophrenic who did not want to take his medication. His parents did everything they could, but he refused to take his medication and he refused to stay in their home. I really feel for parents of adult children with mental illness who are struggling with their illness.
Think of it this way though, if this magazine article prompts someone to get help for her, then its a good thing. Better publish this bizarre behavior and get help for her then keep quiet and let it go on. I don’t know why so many of you are quick to blame her parents. We have no idea what they have attempted to do to help her already, or how tied their hands might be. Clearly they love her, as they have tried to help her. Clearly the conservatorship needed to stay in place. But how much control did they have over that? I don’t know much about it, but doesn’t a judge have to rule on that?
I agree, Zwella, I don’t know why people are so quick to blame her parents. I think a lot of it has to do with TMZ’s suggesting that they don’t think she has a mental illness…but TMZ does not tell the truth all of the time. We do not know what her parents are doing, or even what they are legally able to do for her at this time.
The only “good” thing about the media documenting her troubles is that it can be used in court when her parents (hopefully) go for conservatorship again.
The law is the law, it’s not a parent or a nanny, it can only get involved when she gets caught breaking laws. I’m certain her family is trying to help her but she, like so many others, is falling through the large hole in our health care system. Ronald Reagan shut down the national mental health care system and homeless and mentally ill people were dumped on the street or on their families. How can aged parents, who probably need care, possibly care for their adult children with mental illness? If she were bleeding, we could take her to the hospital. She is mentally bleeding, but there is no hospital we can take her to. It’s wrong.
Amanda Bynes’ downward spiral really surprised me. She looked like she had it so together when she was a teen up until her mid-20s. I thought at that point she would be okay as a grounded former child star. Her personal struggles were just so unexpected and even today I am shocked that no one has been able to help her deal with her mental problems. I hope she gets some serious help soon. I miss the old Amanda.
She probably was grounded up until her mid 20-s. Schizophrenia usually kicks in around 25.
Late teens, even. And long lapses between onset of symptoms and diagnosis, sadly. From NAMI:
http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/SchizophreniaSurvey/Analysis_Living_with_Schizophrenia.htm
My older brother’s high school friend, who was our neighbor, was handsome, popular, athletic. His sister was my friend, so I grew up knowing him. He developed schizophrenia later, and it was devastating to the family. He had always been so normal. After the onset, he only held menial jobs and lived mostly with his parents. He would go off meds at times, and it was a nightmare what they went through.
Sounds exactly like my good friend from college. Smart, funny, creative, she just made the room light up. Her scizophrenia hit when she was about 23. She is dead now. She died at 27 of an overdose, alone in a tiny apartment. :^(
My aunt and my cousin’s husband both didn’t display obvious symptoms of schizophrenia until they were both in their mid-20s, and married with families. In my aunt’s case, a very stressful family situation seems to have “triggered” her onset. There is often a complicated play between genetics and environment with schizophrenia and other mental health disorders that we still don’t fully understand.
I think she’s gone off the reservation again.
Wow. I can’t believe In Touch even spoke to her let alone ran what she said when she was obviously in a midst of either a bi-polar or schizophrenia episode.
Totally agree. It’s just beyond any kind of…..I don’t even know….decency, perhaps? Beyond plain old human decency to interview her and publish this story. I know TMZ takes a lot of (well-deserved) crap for some of the things they report and how they get some of their information, but even they haven’t gone this route and are advocating (in a sense) for her parents to get her under conservatorship again. Such a sleazy thing for In Touch to do.
TMZ has done a lot worst in the past.
There’s no Caleb. And there’s a special place in hell for In Touch Weekly.
This is NOT a “weed problem”. This is schizophrenia, or something on par with it. Girl needs serious help. Very, very sad.
Coming to say just that. Her parents are seriously delusional if they think that weed is at the root of her problems. This is clearly a very serious mental health issue that requires medication.
Not a “weed problem” HOWEVER, marijuana can trigger psychosis. Personally, I love the stuff :^) but some people should stay far, far away.
Yes, the only problem is that you can’t know if it would trigger something in yourself. Statistics show that most people don’t have any problems with weed and psychosis, but if you are one of the unlucky few with a genetic disposition then it’s quite unfortunate.
+1million. I have had social anxiety and depression since I was a kid. Self medicating brought on psychosis. Happily I am properly medicated now and finally feel normal after 27 years.
We all hate when celebs whine about gossip mags, but when you read stuff like this I can’t help but to put myself in their shoes. There’s some truly awful, AWFUL people working there. Media attention is the last thing this woman needs right now.
Her answers about her not looking good in a car and jealousy of another pretty little girl sound like she’s making fun of the reporter/magazine because of their stupid exploitation of her situation. At least I hope it’s just that.
No she tweeted similar comments a couple a years ago.Around the time she was claiming various celebs were jealous of her beauty.She is delusional.Hopefully she wont injure herself .I saw her riding her bike in NY traffic on TMZ.Sad
I thought this was a charade to get media attention back for a while, too, but she really is mentally ill. She really believes all those things.
It’s her delusion talking.
sad.
She’s back on twitter everyone!
This is so sad. How long are her parents going to be in denial for? And In touch are complete scum for printing the interview and even talking to her ugh.
Weed doesn’t cause stuff like this, but it really, really makes it worse. THC plays hell with people who are prone to mental illnesses with psychotic or delusional features. I have no doubt Amanda is seriously ill all on her own, but the drugs are absolutely making it worse.
I rarely advocate for long-term in-patient treatments (since they often aren’t needed or advisable) but Amanda needs to be in a secured facility somewhere, at least for now. The real tragedy is that if she is schizophrenic or bipolar, both are illnesses that generally respond incredibly well to medications and therapy, so her odds of living a decent life are actually pretty good if she can be surrounded by people who actually care about her. And I don’t think her parents are the right people to care for her. If those old rumors are true, I mean.
We have no idea what’s she’s on, or not on. Or her diagnosis. And her parents are probably trying to help her. It is not always possible to help people or control them when they are 28 and rich.
Well, if the statements her lawyer released in April are to be believed, Amanda was on no medication whatsoever. Her mother seems to think reefer madness is to blame and is pretty dead-set on that theory. Amanda needs help and I agree with Sam that her parents likely can’t provide the level of care she needs.
Here’s a link to April’s article for reference:
http://www.celebitchy.com/359858/amanda_bynes_is_not_schizophrenic_not_on_medication_shes_not_smoking_weed/
She has some serial mental issues. She is way too obsessed with her look, and that quote about a daughter was so unappropriate and wrong that it made me cringe.
Although some of her utterances have been entertaining in the past, knowing, or at least being witnesses to this apparent breakdown now, it just feels ugly to be an audience to it.
Kaiser, I thought that your article displayed sensitivity and thoughtfulness on the subject. I don’t think that tabloid media should be seeking her out for comments when they know that she is not well, and further, is she even a celebrity at this point?
The parents seem to be in absolute denial about the severity of her condition, whatever it may be. Hopefully, the court will recognize her illness and make mandatory psychological evaluation a part of her sentencing or as part of a pretrial order.
I agree, I really appreciate the thoughtful tone and thought provoking questions in this article. Well done, Kaiser.
Weed and schizophrenia are a terrible combination. Weed for a healthy person is not a problem, but it triggers the hallucinations (both visual and auditory) in people who have schizophrenia. She is also probably off her meds too. This disease is so hard to treat because unlike when a person is sick and taking medication, people with schizophrenia (and a few other mental disorders) feel better off their meds. It is a sad cycle. Hopefully she gets back into treatment.
Yes. I know someone who suffers from mental health (thankfully not schizophrenia) issues and you’re completely right about the cycle. They think they’re better and/or don’t like the side effects of the meds so they either stop cold turkey or convince their doctor that they no longer need the meds. After a month or so the symptoms start all over again. I’m guessing that she took meds regularly with her parents and then stopped as soon as the conservatorship (sp?) ended.
I have done this a few times. You honestly feel like you are going to be ok. I hope I don’t do it again, but when I have done it, there was no doubt in my head that I was going to be fine.
For the love of Pete…Somebody please help this girl. She is a very talented young lady. Her family and “friends” should be rallying around her and supporting her. Sometimes folks need help even if they don’t want it. I think with the right medication and support system she could thrive again. She is obviously living in a fantasy world. Not the type that Paris Hilton lives in but a real fantasy. It’s clear she has broken from reality. Why on earth aren’t her loved ones helping? I just don’t understand.
Ew. I just looked at In Touch’s Facebook post on this. They posted it as a cutesy story. What a**holes!
That’s disgusting.
Those two guys are following her around now to get in papz shots and they’re twitter stalking her too. This will not end well.
FWIW although TMZ is following her around Harvey Levin is Super quick to shut down any talk of “she is cray cray” “being spoiled” when people call in to TMZ live like.. he makes it clear that is a Mental problem, that she isn’t doing well, that her parents are deluded but that also since letting the Conservatorship lapse is basically a waiting game
Just vomited in my mouth a little. Yeah, Harvey, you’re so altruistic in your endeavors.
Wow. This girl really sounds wacko. I somehow doubt that she has a boyfriend, let alone a fiancé. I sounds almost as if she’s making up stories from the top of her head.
Why didn’t the judge in charge of the conservatorship insist that she receive appropriate mental health care? Her parents are ignorant and obviously incapable of helping her with her problems. She needs real help fast!
He/she may have and that may be why she was low key during the time she stayed with her parents.
I believe at one point even her doctors went to the judge bc her situation was so dire – and the judge sided with her doctors about her condition. What has happened since then, who knows. There’s really nothing the medical or legal professionals can do unless something drastic happens.
If she’s been abused by an older man, I can see why she thinks an adoring young boyfriend is a good “escape” from other men, but they aren’t puppies and they tend to not remain obedient forever. I hope she does have someone she can depend on, though.
Oh this is so sad–this girl is in such need of a real friend that she is now inventing them. I’m absolutely over her parents–not only did they not follow through with needed mental health care, when she was arrested last week, they admitted they “lost track of her” after the conservatorship ended. Losing track of your mentally ill child who goes underground and doesn’t want to be found is a real problem plaguing tons of families. But here, TMZ, In Touch, the cops, Twitter followers, and random hangers-on seem to have no problem keeping track of Amanda. Perhaps her parents could get a job at In Touch so they stand a better chance of, literally, keeping in touch with her. Or perhaps they could just admit the recovery process was too hard and too expensive and so they abandoned her…
You have no idea how hard it is to control an adult. She is a free person and her parents can’t just lock her up and force medication on her. Much like an alcoholic, you cannot stop someone from doing what they want, they have to want to stop or want your help. It’s very easy to lose track of a person, famous or not, if they don’t want you around.
Or perhaps people who are so quick to say ‘don’t judge the mentally ill’ should extend that exceptional tolerance to the loved ones as well. It’s not easy when you have a mentally ill loved one.
What we are witnessing is mental illness of a young lady. This is not cute. This is a heinous decent into Hell that many affected people and their families deal with every damn day. Its sad to me, that many families, who lacking in resources, cannot help their child to the fullest. They go beyond the scope of just standing around, wringing their hands, woe is me, its the weed, and instead, advocate for their loved one the best they can.
That’s what gets me about her parents. They have money. They have resources to help her. They could, bring to light and attention of mental illness, to people in power, (that the normal family could not) be taken seriously and help remove the stigma of mental illness.
They shouldn’t feel any shame about their daughter. But they do.
Supposedly her father doesn’t actually believe she has a mental illness, just that she’s spoiled and acting out. Her parents had her later in their lives and it seems like ignorance combined with a desire to sweep things under the carpet. They look tired and over it. It will take another incident which someone is harmed or nearly so for her to get help again, from anyone. Sad indeed.
Such a sad situation. I wonder why her parents’ conservatorship wasn’t extended, because she obviously is still of need of it. No sooner than she was left to her own devices she winds up getting a DUI, and now this cringe-worthy interview. Not wanting a daughter because she might be prettier than her? Not liking being in a car because the lighting is bad and she doesn’t look good? Her mental state is heartbreaking. Just heartbreaking. I’m rooting for her though.
I feel very sad for her. I wish TMZ would stop being vulterish in their reporting of this poor woman. When your mind feels like your own private life prison sentence, its no joke.
The mentally ill certainly are entertaining. Ha ha ha ha!
Yes, it’s so profoundly sad and disturbing. Shame on any magazines or media outlets who exploit this woman.
she and khloe look like they could be sisters from their header photos
I’ve said it when she was locked in psych ward – just don’t let her out. Because when she will be off the control – she will immediately stop taking her pills and will get crazy again. And then she will commit crime at some point and her lawyer will be all like: “But she can’t go to prison, judge. She is mentally ill. She should go for 6 months in psych ward and then should be released”…
You know it will happen. You know with Britney – we all loved Britney and were rooting for her to get will and were worried. Amanda Bynes? I simply don’t care about her. Because I don’t know her. She was C-list. Teen star that could never translate to adult career. Saw her in few movies. Then she suddenly got crazy and went wondering street and was all over the media. And that’s it. I just don’t know her as person to care about her.
OMG, this poor girl is seriously disturbed. And she is just the kind to want to have kids, too, heaven forbid. She needs anti-psychotic meds, serious therapy and NO fame.