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Amanda Bynes is in police custody for a mental health evaluation. The officers of the Los Angeles Police Department took her into custody on Saturday. The police detained her after they received a distress call. The detainment comes two months after she was released from a psychiatric hold. The 37-year-old underwent psychiatric treatment for roaming the streets naked and appearing manic. However, she was later released after three weeks.
Amanda Bynes Will Undergo Mental Health Evaluation
On Saturday, Bynes was handcuffed outside her residence, with law enforcement revealing that they responded to a call from “a woman who was in distress.” According to TMZ, it was Bynes herself who contacted the police.
Per sources, the former Nickelodeon star “was taken to a police station where a professional medical unit was standing by to check her out and determine if she needed further treatment.” Eyewitnesses who had been present at the incident disclosed that she was calm but looked defeated during the interaction with LAPD officers.
The police then placed Baynes in the back of one of the police cruisers that arrived at the scene. However, it is unclear if the cops escorted her outside her home or if she had come outside to meet them. It is also currently unknown whether Baynes was released after an evaluation or taken to a hospital for a 5150 hold.
Details On Amanda Bynes’ Previous Breakdown
Amanda Bynes’ recent mental health evaluation comes only two months after she was placed in a mental health facility in March. The actress reportedly wandered the streets of Los Angeles for four days after her vehicle was towed in the Long Beach area. Eyewitnesses at the time also stated that Bynes called 911 herself after waving down a car herself and telling the driver that she was coming down from a psychotic episode.
After she was picked up, she was first put under a 72-hour psychiatric hold. After three weeks of treatment, she and the facility’s staff decided that she was ready to return to her regular routine. She checked herself out of the facility in April.
Why Did Bynes Have A Mental Breakdown?
Per DailyMail, Bynes’ family and friends believe that her split with her former fiancé, Paul Michael played a significant part in her breakdown. They believe he is unsafe for her mental health, and she was advised to distance herself from him. The source stated that the former pair were codependent on each other, and the latter part of their relationship was toxic.
Baynes and Micheal met at Alcoholics Anonymous in November 2019. They announced their engagement in February 2022 but split three weeks later. In March, Amanda announced that she was pregnant, with her attorney later stating in May that she was not expecting her first child. In April this year, Micheal claimed he and Bynes broke up only days before her mental breakdown that occurred in March. He also recalled that the actress seemed stable before their breakup.
Bynes had previously been under conservatorship since 2013, which ended in March 2022. She was involuntarily committed to a conservatorship following multiple run-ins with the law. In 2012, she had two hit-and-runs, as well as a DUI. She was also arrested in 2013 for allegedly throwing a bong out of the window of her 36th-floor apartment in Manhattan.