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Celeb News: Drake Bell: "Amanda is good and she's healthy"
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Drake Bell: "Amanda is good and she's healthy"
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We can all breathe a sigh of relief about the status of Amanda Bynes' mental health, according to her longtime pal and Amanda Show co-star Drake Bell.
When I catch up with him Saturday at The Pool After Dark at Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, the 26-year-old actor passionately defends the seemingly-troubled actress, whom he claims is “like a sister.”
He sets the record straight about what’s going on inside her head.
Despite speculation that the 27-year-old starlet has no one to turn to as she unravels, Drake insists they maintain a close relationship after appearing together on the Nickelodeon show from 1999-2001.
“Amanda and I are close,” the outgoing actor, who is wearing a plaid suit and purple socks, tells me. “We worked together for years. I talk to her every day. She’s a sweetheart. I had lunch with her yesterday, and she’s brilliant. She’s good, and she’s healthy.”
In fact, he even invited her down to the resort to spend the weekend with him.
“I actually talked to her this morning, told her I was coming into Jersey,” he says. “She’s living in New York, so I said ‘come hang out in New Jersey.’ Unfortunately she had a few commitments tonight. I wanted her to come and she was like ‘Oh my God, I so would,’ but she had some things to do tonight, and we’re on different coasts, so it’s hard. But Amanda is a beautiful, artistic, funny soul.”
So what’s the deal?
“She’s in a place right now where she is searching,” he says. “She’s ready to be her own person, and do her own thing. She’s experiencing life for real, without the spotlight, for the first time. She is a girl who is finding herself.”
Still, the constant coverage of her bizarre behavior is cause for pause.
“It hurts me and it upsets me, because I look at her and talk to her, and we’ll sit down for lunch or dinner, and I’m like ‘Amanda, what is going on?’ And she’s like ‘whatever.’ She’s the same beautiful, funny, artistic, thoughtful person that she’s always been, but she decided to change her hairstyle. She got a bad hairdo and shaved her head, so she had to get extensions. Now everyone’s like ‘oh, you’re crazy.’”
He continues, ”I’m like ‘dude, you come off crazy.’ She’s like, ‘I know, but I don’t mean to. I just changed the way I look!’”
Although her recent arrest, combative tweets and plastic surgery statements signal deep distress, he chalks up all the negative attention to her altered appearance.
“If tomorrow I came out and I was tattooed all over, everyone would go ‘oh, he’s crazy. He’s nuts.’ And I go, ‘no, I just wanted tattoos.’ She got piercings in her cheeks, and I’m talking to Amanda who says ‘I just wanted piercings in my cheeks. Big deal.’ I’m like ‘honey, everyone thinks you’re a drug addict, loony and all that—and she’s not.’”
He insists she doesn’t have mental problems.
“No, no, no, no, no,” he says. “Let me follow you for 24 hours with a camera. Let me see what you got. If I followed you for 24 hours, you’d probably be like ‘get the f*** away from me.’ But Amanda’s a beautiful soul. She’s funny.”
Plus, he swears he’s never witnessed strange behavior.
“Nothing,” Drake says. “Anytime I’ve ever been with Amanda, she’s totally coherent, totally there, totally everything.”
Wait, so there’s no reason for her family should step in and have her committed to rehab or a mental health facility?
“She definitely has an issue with the family, but everybody does,” he says. “Everyone has issues with their family, but that’s not what it is.”
He feels one thing can get Amanda, who is known for her physical comedy, back on track since she left her acting career behind in 2010.
“She needs to get out of retirement, and make us laugh again, because that’s what she’s brilliant at,” Drake says. “Amanda Bynes is brilliant at making us laugh, and that’s what she needs to do. She’s great at it.”
He adds, “The closest to Carol Burnett in our generation is Amanda Bynes. She’s brilliant, she’s a genius, she’s funny as hell.”
Perhaps it is the public who is being played, and she will benefit. After all, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Kim Kardashian have expressed their delight at her recent antics.
“It really hurts me seeing what is being written about her, but on the other hand, like Laurence Olivier says, any press is good press,” he remembers. “It would make me happier if I knew that she wanted that, but she doesn’t.”
I hope Amanda gets it together. I met her during the Hairspray premiere in 2007, and will never forget—she was so tall! She was completely lucid, and had piercing blue eyes.
With that, dapper Drake heads into the club, where he trots across the stage to bust some moves as songs like classics Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and I Feel Good, plus 2 Chainz I’m Different play.
He’s another impressive host: He orders a few trays of Fruit Loop vodka sorbet Sprite shots and passes them out to the crowd. He even twirls around female guests attending a bachelorette party. Gotta love him!
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So what do you think?
I personally think that Amanda still has mental issues and I've been saying it for a really long time now. Stories like this make me think twice. Believe me, I'd rather Amanda just be a different person than who I thought she was.
Regardless, I hope Drake doesn't honestly think that people are concerned or calling her crazy SOLELY because of her appearance.
It's also about the complete 180 in personality over the course of two years.
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Amanda is a very good actress then
Coming for the oscars
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& if she signs that record deal she will be snatching the grammys too...
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“No, no, no, no, no,” he says. “Let me follow you for 24 hours with a camera. Let me see what you got. If I followed you for 24 hours, you’d probably be like ‘get the f*** away from me.’ But Amanda’s a beautiful soul. She’s funny.”
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But let's be honest. Who actually cared enough about Amanda after the early 00s were complete to follow her 24/7 with a camera?
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Lol, she's clearly not in a good position mentally. Drake Bell is wrong to claim otherwise.
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Drake trying to band-aid a stitches situation.
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She got a bad hairdo and shaved her head, so she had to get extensions. Now everyone’s like ‘oh, you’re crazy.’
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Yeah, that's definitely why we think she's crazy.
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So she's just a messy attention-starved twitter personality then.
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Drake and Amanda are close friends, so I'd think he'd know more about her than we do. 
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I don't know what he's seeing but bitch.. 
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Yeah, right...
The nerve to talk about someone not having mental problems when he spends the night trolling Beliebers on Twitter.
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Drake and Amanda are close friends, so I'd think he'd know more about her than we do. |
Normally I'd say this but he's also the one who claims we all think she's crazy because of her hair and appearance...
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He wants her puss so bad
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I don't think she's crazy, more like attention seeking.
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Not Drake Bell speaking on her behalf. 
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Watch Amanda release her own version of Borat. Coming for Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, Tony, etc.
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I told y'all. She fooling us!
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Watch Amanda release her own version of Borat. Coming for Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, Tony, etc. |
I'd so be here for this!
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