Why was Amanda Bynes in a conservatorship?
Known for her work in television and movies in the 1990s and 2000s, Amanda Bynes was placed in a conservatorship back in 2013.
Amanda Bynes was placed in a psychiatric hold after she was found roaming the streets of Los Angeles naked on Sunday.
The 36-year-old, according to TMZ, flagged down a car and told the driver she was coming down from a psychiatric episode. It’s said she called 911 herself before being taken to a local police station, where a mental health team put her on a psychiatric hold.
It’s the latest high-profile incident involving the actress, who achieved fame early in her career. However, since then she has struggled with substance abuse and faced several legal issues.
Why was Amanda Bynes in a conservatorship?
Bynes was charged with driving under the influence (DUI) in West Hollywood in 2012, though the charges were dropped two years later and she received a three-year probation.
In May 2013, she was charged with reckless endangerment and marijuana possession after she was found smoking in the lobby of her Manhattan apartment. A judge later dismissed the case against her in June 2014.
Bynes was later placed in her high-profile conservatorship after it was alleged she set a small fire in a neighbor’s driveway near her parents home in July 2013.
She was then placed on an involuntary psychiatric hold, with her parents filing for conservatorship shortly after the hospitalization. Bynes’ mother was later granted a temporary conservatorship over her affairs, before becoming her conservator again in October 2014.
When was the conservatorship terminated?
In 2018, Bynes stated that she had been sober for four years thanks to the help of her parents.
“I’ve been sober for almost four years now,” Bynes told Paper Magazine. She also apologized for what she wrote on Twitter during her years of substance abuse, which included accusations against her father that she later said were false.
“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,” said Bynes.
“Everything I worked my whole life to achieve, I kind of ruined it all through Twitter.”
In February 2022, Bynes filed to end her conservatorship, with the attorney for her parents stating they supported the decisions.
“In all honestly, her mom is so happy and excited. Amanda’s whole family is happy to restart a relationship with Amanda that has nothing to do with this conservatorship,” the lawyer for Bynes’ mom, Tamar Arminak, told Rolling Stone.
“Both parents and both siblings want the cloud of this conservatorship removed so that everyone can go back to the old relationship they had, which was loving, simple and peaceful in their family.”
Bynes’ conservatorship was later officially terminated on March 22, 2022.
“The court finds that petitioner has provided facts that the conservatorship is no longer needed or required, therefore the petition for termination is granted,” said Ventura County Judge Roger Lund at the hearing.
“She’s done everything the court has asked over a long period of time.”