After a week of erratic, troubling behavior, Amanda Bynes has reportedly been placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold at a California hospital. According to People , the actress was admitted for treatment shortly after landing at LAX Friday afternoon.
Is Amanda Bynes Mentally Ill? Her Disturbing Week in New York
The last 24 hours of Amanda Bynes' life, if the tabloids are to be believed, have been... troubling. Yesterday, In Touch reported that she believes there is a microchip in her head (Bynes denies having said this). Elsewhere things have not been any less bizarre.
She accidentally stole clothes twice
Twice yesterday Bynes left clothing stores in New York without paying for items, though it would be inaccurate to say that she was stealing.
Yesterday afternoon at Barneys she walked out of the store wearing a $200 hat, which triggered a call to the NYPD. According to Bynes, she planned on buying the hat but left her wallet with her driver. She says that she then walked outside to find her driver, and also became flustered when she says someone attempted to take photos of her.
Earlier in the day she attempted to exit a Manhattan boutique called Pookie & Sebastian carrying a shirt. When confronted by store employees she is alleged to have asked "Do I really have to buy this?" at which point she paid for the shirt using a credit card.
Here is how TMZ says witnesses described her behavior:
We're told they didn't recognize it was Amanda, and just thought she was a "half-naked, homeless crackhead."Customers tell us Bynes was dancing and muttering about plastic surgery — but eventually she tried to bolt with a shirt stuffed between her arms.
She apparently undressed on the street
Before the Barneys incident, Bynes was spotted by paparazzi fidgeting with herself on the street. Eventually she appeared to remove her bra while standing on the sidewalk. This one seems perfectly reasonable, actually—maybe the bra was uncomfortable.
The Daily Mail reports that it wasn't the only trouble she was having with her (own) clothes that day:
Inside [Barneys], Bynes looked at jewelry by herself, while adjusting the neck of her shirt repeatedly and protecting her eyes from the harsh glare of retail store lighting
She allegedly clawed someone
On Monday night Bynes allegedly clawed a "fan" at Gilded Lily in Chelsea. Per TMZ:
We're told she was dancing alone, wearing sunglasses and keeping to herself ... until random people started taking photos.At first, Amanda was just yelling at the fans ... but we're told she finally snapped on one woman who claims Bynes spun toward her violently, scratching her neck and arms.
She reportedly stumbled around Bloomingdales
In that same story, TMZ reported that Bynes spent hours inside a Bloomingdales on Tuesday doing... this:
Several Bloomingdale's shoppers tell us Amanda was limping around the department store for hours with just one shoe while mumbling incoherently.
She followed Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton on Twitter
Prior to resurfacing in New York this week, Bynes had more or less disappeared from social media for most of 2014. But she has been active on Twitter again, tweeting about the press and altering her follow list. It is now down to 11 from 13—sorry, Mac Miller—but her most recent follows are the most interesting: Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
TMZ reports that Bynes believed she was being taken to meet with her parents and their lawyer before arriving at the Pasadena hospital and being surrounded by staff.
Also according to TMZ, Bynes is being held there under a so-called "5150 hold," named after the section of California's legal code that allows for the involuntary commitment of a person who is "a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled" due to mental illness.
A 5150 hold lasts for 72 hours, after which doctors can extend the commitment by an additional 14 days.
The actress made headlines this week after a series of strange statements and actions, starting with an "unbalanced" InTouch interview in which she accused people of reading her mind via a microchip in her brain. On Friday, Bynes blamed the microchip for claims (she later recanted)about her father's physical and sexual abuse, adding "but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me."
Amanda Bynes: "The Microchip in My Brain Made Me Say" My Dad Abused Me
In a series of tweets posted earlier this morning, Amanda Bynes accused her dad of child abuse, saying he was "verbally and physically" abusive when she was a kid and that living with him "was a total nightmare." Now she says the microchip in her brain made her say those things.
My dad never did any of those things The microchip in my brain made me say those things but he's the one that ordered them to microchip me
— amanda bynes (@amandabynes) October 10, 2014
Bynes's mother, Lynn, provided this statement to Hollyscoop through her lawyer, Tamar Arminak:
I am heartbroken today for my husband of 47 years. Rick has been the best father and husband a family can ask for. He has never abused Amanda or our other children physically or sexually. These accusations are absolutely horrible and could not be further from the truth! These allegations stem from Amanda's mental state at the moment. They have no basis in reality. It saddens me beyond belief that my husband's character could be slandered in such a way.
Now, Bynes is reportedly trying to escape New York City and avoid her parents. Per TMZ:
Amanda Bynes is fleeing New York City after learning her parents were planning to go to NYC to get her in a mental health facility ... TMZ has learned.We're told Bynes first went to LaGuardia to get out of town but was ordered out of the Airport after screaming at a ticket agent. She was agitated that a flight wasn't immediately leaving. She then jumped in a car to make her way to JFK.
The accusations Bynes made against her father—with whom she was living under a conservatorship until recently—are disturbing. She has deleted some of her Tweets.
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