Is anyone else wondering what the hell is going on with Amanda Bynes? First the actress was arrested for a DUI in Los Angeles last week after reportedly running a red light at an intersection at 3 a.m. only to then stop in the middle of that same intersection. Sources claim the DUI stemmed from Bynes’ use of the drug Adderall after she quit taking her prescribed psychiatric drugs. Then sightings of Bynes “visibly high” and talking to herself at a LAX airport restaurant along with photos of Bynes sporting a new dye job started circling the web and now, pictures of the actress landing at a NYC airport with an oversized band-aid on her face have friends and family seriously concerned for the star.
Bynes’ legal troubles began in 2012 when the actress was arrested for her first DUI after side swiping a police car in West Hollywood. She was involved in another hit and run in August of that same year before her license was then suspended. Two weeks later, Bynes was caught driving with a suspended license, but managed to get out of serving jail time by entering a treatment facility and being placed on three years’ probation. After allegedly setting fire to her neighbor’s driveway in the summer of 2013, and being accused of throwing a bong out of her NYC apartment window, the actress was put under the care of her parents until June of this year. Bynes’ family say they haven’t seen her since she left their home and the star had been kicked out of all of her classes at L.A.’s Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising before her latest run in with the law.
Friends close to Bynes including a hairstylist who’s worked with the star, are saying the actress is paranoid when it comes to the public:
She’s very well aware that everyone’s attacking her. She can’t really trust anybody.