
It is rumoured people were often taken aback by Amanda's strange rituals.
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Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.30am and Fionnán Sheahan's exclusive take on the day's news every afternoon, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up "When she was living at her apartment near New York's Times Square, neighbours spotted her wandering the halls and talking to herself in unintelligible sentences," a source told Radar Online. She has lived in countless apartment buildings and hotels since moving to New York City in 2012.Īpparently neighbours often heard her walking in communal areas speaking a "nonsensical" language. It is rumoured medical professionals have requested an extension to the three-day evaluation period as they believe the star is suffering from schizophrenia.Īmanda has been embroiled in a number of bizarre situations recently. The California legislation sees those deemed by authorities to be a danger to themselves and others forced into hospital to have their mental state evaluated for up to 72 hours.
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But instead of arresting Bynes, police decided she needed immediate professional help.īynes is under a 5150 hold since Monday night’s incident.

The 27-year-old lit a fire on an elderly woman’s driveway in Thousand Oaks, California on Monday night. Police view the troubled star’s actions as “non-criminal” and “rooted in mental illness”, TMZ reports. Meanwhile, prosecutors will not charge the former actress with any criminal offense for setting a driveway ablaze. The two week extension is believed to have been ordered in order to accurately diagnose Bynes with a particular condition, due to her increasingly erratic behavious of late.

The Nickeloden star has hired an independent attorney, who is fighting for her conservatorship to end. She has been granted a temporary conservatorship and her parents are applying to extend that as well, according to TMZ. The former child actress was placed on an involuntary 5150 hold in a Manhattan hospital after lighting a pair of her trousers on fire in a driveway. A New York judge has granted Amanda Bynes a two-week extension in a psychiatric facility.
