Discussion: Amanda Bynes - What Went Wrong?

seaɴ.

I don't understand.

She's going through a mental breakdown, but why? She was the good girl for so long throughout the decade of 2000-2010, pretty, nice, geniune, talented, successful, A-Lister.

Then, she suddenly took a hiatus after 2010, claiming to be retired, got into a DUI situation in 2012 and has been a mess ever since.

To the paparazzi and media outlets, she's been acting all self-conscious/messy and saying she's gonna sue them for putting bad pics on their articles about her, requesting them to use her messy Twitter pictures. She's been hiding herself with a scarf from the paps and saying she can't be pictured because she has to look beautiful. She even scratched and pinched the neck/arms of a photographer and hit his camera for taking a bad photo of her and begged him to delete them because they weren't beautiful enough. She then proceeded to say she never touched him and walked away when he complained.

Fashion-wise, she's wearing tacky Tumblr/Jersey Shore-esque outfits and socks/sandals with sweatpants.

On Twitter, she's bitching out every media outlet for very stupid reasons like not posting the right pics. Her tweets scream mentally-insane.

So, what went wrong? I don't get it.

dnav87

Hollywood. It's not for everyone

Αnt

It's all for publicity and it's working.

Rule the World

I honestly think her career started to slow down so she ''retired'' and ever since it's like her life has no purpose.

Edit: she was so pretty in that picture

Trent

Quote:

Originally posted by Lust For Love

It's all for publicity and it's working.

+1

It's obvious she's just trying to get attention.

Kala

Just because someone is all those things that you bolded doesn't mean you're perfect (no offense btw :-) )! Looks can be very deceiving, and we never knew what she could have been going through or is, behind closed doors. I honestly, can't say though....It's like she wants attention maybe, but then she doesn't which is confusing. I really don't know though, it's really strange and confusing, but hopefully she finds herself and can find peace in her life!

SMGOwnsTheNight

Her tweets give me life but I do want her to get better if this is not a stunt

seaɴ.

I mean, it would be really fun to troll the paparazzi and public like that if you were done with acting, so if that's the reason, I don't really blame her.

iHooker

the new her >>>

Eaten By Lions

It's not for publicity, you can tell from her eyes that something is up.

Gagasm

I don't know

DripDrip

I think she's just bored with lots of money.

GrandMomCookies

Idk but the drake murder my ***** tweet is to funny it's like she's on atrl

themusictoblame

honestly I don't think this is for publicity like you can just tell from her candids something is wrong plus she is always alone, no friends or family around her

hairofglory

Nothing. She's faking.

I Am Music

She's clearly mentally ill and she needs help ASAP

SailorMoon

I think this is all publicity in the ranks of Joaquin Phoenix's rap career stunt turned documentary.

She's always been a comedian and I feel maybe for once the jokes on us cause we're believing she's ****ing crazy when in reality she's laughing.

ksmith

She's showing signs of schizophrenia, and she's at the prime age where it starts to develop. She’s usually listening to loud music which helps to drown out voices, she’s pretending that other people are posing as her in public, there’s been reports that she would leave her apartment door open all day and would talk/laugh to herself, apparently she changed all of the lights in her apartment to red lights- apparently schizophrenic people are drawn to the color red because it suppresses visual activity. There’s a lot, a lot, a lot of information pointing towards schizophrenia. It also usually happens to young adults in their 20s, she’s right around the age where people start to develop it. I hope she really gets help.

I can't really believe people think it's just for publicity. Amanda has always had a great image and stayed relevant. And in a few years she just completely changes and is someone totally different? Come on. I think it's pretty clear it's something related to mental illness.

ZachM

I really can't even tell what's wrong with her. It's so sad

EDIT: I didn't even see the post above me. That makes so much sense.

imabadkid

If she's hoping this will help re-start her career I doubt it'll work. Lindsay's situation is different, she went off the rails literally right before she was supposed to make it big. Amanda was pretty much irrelevant by the time her situation happened.