Amanda Bynes returns to treatment facility after 'relapse': Reports
Amanda Bynes is getting treatment for her ongoing drug addiction and mental health struggles, according to reports.
People, Us Weekly and TMZ report that Bynes suffered a relapse and checked into a Los Angeles-area rehab facility last month. The She’s the Man star, 32, is said to have been feeling pressure from being back in the spotlight after her high-profile interview with Paper magazine in November.
“Amanda is continuing treatment with the assistance of mental health counselors and addiction specialists,” a source told Us, adding that she is “responding very well to treatment and her team remains extremely optimistic about her future.” TMZ noted that the 32-year-old is getting a ton of support from her parents.
Yahoo has reached out to Bynes’s attorney for comment and will update this story when we hear back.
In her interview with Paper, the Hairspray actress talked about getting sober four years earlier after being in the throes of drug addiction. She said she started dabbling when she was 16 and it escalated. She suffered a very public breakdown in 2014 and her bizarre behavior became the talk of social media.
“I’m really ashamed and embarrassed with the things I said. 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,” she told the magazine. “Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter … It’s definitely not Twitter’s fault — it’s my own fault.”
However, she told the magazine that she never had mental health issues — only substance abuse ones. “It definitely isn’t fun when people diagnose you with what they think you are,” Bynes said. “That was always really bothersome to me. If you deny anything and tell them what it actually is, they don’t believe you. Truly, for me, [my behavior] was drug-induced, and whenever I got off of [drugs], I was always back to normal. … I know that my behavior was so strange that people were just trying to grasp at straws for what was wrong.”
During her recovery, Bynes dropped out of the spotlight and enrolled at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles. However, she said she’s not ruling out a return to the big screen. “I have no fear of the future,” she said. “I’ve been through the worst and came out the other end and survived it so I just feel like it’s only up from here.”
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