The troubled ex-Nickelodeon star is back on the streets following an extended stay in a Malibu treatment center.
Following a rather trying 2013, former
Nickelodeon star Amanda Bynes has recently completed treatment at a
rehabilitation center and has returned home to live with her parents.
Bynes herself told InTouch magazine that she’s “doing very well.”
Bynes
had a tumultuous couple of years where she was arrested for driving
under the influence after hitting a police car in West Hollywood in
2012. In May 2013, she was arrested again for criminal possession of
marijuana and reckless endangerment after she was caught throwing her
bong from her high-rise apartment. Two months later, Bynes was kicked out of the Ritz-Carlton after racking up $2,000 in room service and drunkenly trespassing on a retirement community.
But
her life came crashing down around her days later when she was
involuntarily hospitalized on a 5150 hold after setting a fire in the
driveway of a Thousand Oaks, CA home; such holds are used
“[w]hen any person, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to
others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled.” She left the
psych ward at the UCLA Medical Center in early September and entered the
more cozy confines of The Canyon in neighboring Malibu. Days before
Thanksgiving, Bynes was released to her parents’ custody – her mother
received temporary conservatorship over her finances and medical care in
August – in order to continue her rehab.
"Amanda
and her entire family would like to thank everyone who's contacted them
with good thoughts and wishes for Amanda's recovery," said lawyer Tamar
Arminak in a statement. "Amanda has completed her inpatient
rehabilitation and she's feeling better every day."