Amanda Bynes, the increasingly eccentric star who once featured in Nickelodeon’s “All That” and “The Amanda Show” before taking on films like “What a Girl Wants” and “Hairspray,” recently had a bad night. A building officer called the cops after spotting her smoking a joint in the lobby and talking to herself. When the police arrived, she let them into her apartment, only to toss out a lit bong that had been sitting on the table, throwing it through the window and explaining that it was in fact a vase. The woman was already a strange sight with her platinum blond wig and shiny cheek rings, but when they placed her under arrest, she hollered “Don’t you know who I am?”
Not certain if she herself knew who she was, they had her evaluated by a psychiatrist. As an insider to the case reported to Fox News, “She was acting crazy, but there is no law against being crazy in the United States and they can’t hold you for that. She is not suicidal, and not considered to be a danger to herself or society. They really tried to find a way to hold her, but no avail. Amanda isn’t a dangerous girl, she seems desperate for attention and really acting out.”
When this insider said she has been acting out, they meant that she’s tweeted some bizarre and vulgar tweets about rapper Drake, and otherwise not handled her waning career with any amount of austere grace. But she was released from court the next day on her own recognizance – no bail needed to be posted – and she now faces marijuana and bong charges, which are all misdemeanors. She was expected to return to court later in the week, and meanwhile had informed her fans the charges against her were bogus.